What's really ironic is that cutting undersea cables has been part of British military strategy since the late 19th century--and they did it, to great effect, in the opening days of World War I. Refs: https://www.jstor.org/stable/563928?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents … https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Weapon-Telecommunications-International-1851-1945/dp/0199930333/ref=sr_1_1 … https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/cryptologic-quarterly/assets/files/the_zimmermann_telegram.pdf …
Because golly knows the US has never cut a cable.https://twitter.com/APDiploWriter/status/941670743460450304 …
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Right. Precisely my point. (Tho thanks for the links bc I love cable-cutting and traffic shaping as a concept.)
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As a slight digression, you might be interested in the section on the cable seizure case in https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2850540 … by my colleague
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TY. Btw, I did in fact do a grad paper on Reagan's telecom policy (more satellite than cables) -- a point I might return to now that we're balkanizing the Intertoobz. Snuck it into my CompLit degree.
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Doesn't mitigate the threat Russia poses.
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It’s ok. We are the good guys. I mean it.
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