Vladimir Putin is preparing to attack the UK?

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   Readmikenowposted 2 years ago

   This is from the UK Telegraph
   
   "For a long time it was only speculation. Now we know for certain: Russian spy ships are mapping wind farms and key cables off the British coast. There can be only one reason for this – to learn how to sabotage UK and European critical infrastructure in the event of a full-scale war with the West.
   
   The sobering truth is that our potential adversaries, Russia in the West and China in the East, are gearing up for wider conflict. That does not mean that conflict will happen –preparation makes it less likely – but we must urgently recognise the extent of the threat to the current order. Our world is becoming markedly more dangerous. And Britain is not ready.
   
   Our collective response over too much of the past 15 years was one of denial, oiled and encouraged by Russian money and influence in the US, UK and EU. War in Ukraine opened our eyes – just this week Cabinet Office Secretary Oliver Dowden gave an “unprecedented” warning of cyber threats to our national infrastructure; and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has been consistently robust – but there is much more we can do.
   Some of our closest allies, such as Poland, are re-arming on land at an unprecedented rate. Were the worst to happen, they will be ready to defend European soil. But the Nato alliance remains dangerously exposed at sea.
   
   Russia is probing for European vulnerabilities. Apart from food, the daily critical requirements of modern society are energy and communications. The underwater arteries of modern civilisation are surprisingly few. For example, just three pipelines deliver 43 per cent of our baseline gas supply. Five interconnectors deliver electricity to and from the UK and Europe (and one more between Britain and Ireland). There are more communications cables, about 70 in all, but a relatively small number of deep-sea sabotage operations could bring our world to a halt without a shot being fired. We were assured that wind farms would bolster our energy security, but few considered their military exposure."
   
   https://www.yahoo.com/news/vladimir-put … 10355.html

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      Nathanvilleposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Yep I know; Russia has been caught spying in British waters for decades e.g. some years back a Russian submarine was caught trying to follow one of Britain’s four nuclear weapon submarines out to sea e.g. Britain always has at least one nuclear submarine hidden deep in the sea somewhere in the world, as a nuclear deterrent.
      
      An example of how real the threats are, and what damage such sabotage could cause, was the major cyber-attack by North Korea in 2017 that bought the NHS down for a day, costing $115 million and causing more than 19,000 appointments to be cancelled.
      
      And it’s not just the risk of sabotage of our windfarms by Russia, which if successful would cause major havoc to our infrastructure; but the USA is at risk as well, in the sense that most of the world’s major communions with America is through the deep sea cable that links the USA with Europe and the rest of the world – That cable goes through Cornwall, England. 
      
      Landing our Grace Hopper subsea cable https://youtu.be/47e_3WBCe-Q

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      DrMark1961posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      The US does this all the time, and I assume most countries do. When the US army does this does that nean they plan on attacking China?

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