Are they maping exact cable locations so they can sever them easily later, when it suits them?
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Or wrapping some explosives around them.
So that's all they can do now, sabre rattling cutting an internet cable.
Weak.
It isn't cutting the cable that is an issue, they splice in spying equipment into the cables
I don't think that's possible.
Encryption for the win!
Good luck to cut a cable like that open without it gets seen instantly too.
Out of curiosity, is that area protected by (international) law?
It's in the Irish EEZ, which means it's navigable waters for everyone, but the Irish can drill for oil or put down undersea cables. The "escorted away" thing legally looks like as when someone wants to break into a store and is walking around the storefront with a crowbar, and police come out and just observe and deter the likely perp until they go away.
They can't tell the vessel to go away, but they can put a few proverbial spotlights on it so it doesn't do things it shouldn't be doing.
Oh, BTW, this is exactly the sort of situation that goes down again and again in China, except there the Chinese actively ram ships and endanger aircraft in their EEZ.
So, basically, it's a moot point. But I can see the motivation of escorting the ship away. Chinese are on a different level, of course.
Undersea infrastructure was damaged in the past, so it's not really a moot point. This is like the bobbies escorting a woman home who was being stalked after there was an uptick of rapes in the area.
No telling what might have happened if the Russians felt they weren't being watched.