NATO warships surround Chinese ship suspected of sabotaging undersea internet cables — ship allegedly dragged anchor 100 miles

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Investigation is underway, but NATO cannot force the suspected ship to dock into one of its ports.

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“It’s extremely unlikely that the captain would not have noticed that his ship dropped and dragged its anchor, losing speed for hours and cutting cables on the way,” said one of the investigators handling the probe. What’s more concerning is that the crew allegedly turned off the ship’s transponder during this time, making it impossible for the Automatic Identification System to track its movement. After the ship hit the second undersea cable, the investigators said that it zigzagged, raised its anchor, and continued underway.

Oh bummer, still no real proof!

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Honestly why isn't this considered sabotage and the captain imprisoned? Even if it's plain negligence, it's still multimillion dollar criminal negligence.

How come governments are "tough on crime" when it's some lowly peasant, but corporations can engage in terrorism or fraud 1000x worse, even killing thousands of people, and they simply walk free?

Almost like we live in plutocratic dictatorships — ruled by corporations — masquerading as "democracy".

Because this is part of international politics. It could be seen as a hybrid attack and therefore requires some sensitive handling

tbh sensitive handling is the issue today let's fuckers slip between the cracks.

Bibi and Putin should absolutely be killed, all out war for their crimes. These Chinese vessels and ones who ram in the south China sea, sink em and arrest the people in them.

Our government handles shit with kids gloves

There are better ways to handle the current world situation than war tbh

But Europe seems to be unwilling to act accordingly

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Apparently the Chinese government isn't suspected, but Russia is.

Maybe roundeye will need to buy more cable…

Don't they have to pass through Denmarks waters to leave Europe? Anyways, the only other option is going back to Russia. I hope if china really isn't involved they allow NATO troops to just enter the boat or they just go to a port themselves by order of their company.
But NATO boats can't like surround them long term right, because then they'd stop the crew from moving and starve them out.

It's clear to me that Russia in one way or another is involved in this. I just wonder if China is directly involved.