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- Just last month, the Russian spy ship Yantar, equipped with two self-propelled deep-sea submersible craft, cruised slowly off the East Coast of the United States on its way to Cuba — where one major cable lands near the American naval station at Guantánamo Bay. It was monitored constantly by American spy satellites, ships and planes. Navy officials said the Yantar and the submersible vehicles it can drop off its decks have the capability to cut cables miles down in the sea.
“The level of activity,” a senior European diplomat said, “is comparable to what we saw in the Cold War.”
This can't be good. Let's hope it's all just posturing...
WanderingEng · 3098 days ago · link ·
It all seems like posturing. The Russians have to do exercises and look intimidating to be taken seriously. The Americans need to respond to show we take them seriously. It all seems as civilized as two monkeys beating their chests in the jungle.