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[–] Shawdow194@fedia.io 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

“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.

[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 20 hours ago
[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh bummer, still no real proof!

/s

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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".

[–] guy@piefed.social 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] guy@piefed.social 0 points 12 hours ago

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

But Europe seems to be unwilling to act accordingly

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes let's hurt NATO by shutting off the link to Alibaba, Amazon, etc... and the billion dollars of Chinese junk they sell every day. That will show them. /S

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 7 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Maybe roundeye will need to buy more cable…

[–] timestatic@feddit.org -2 points 16 hours ago

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.