Infrastructure War
It may appear that these events occur in isolation. Upon reflecting on the complete list below, and the structure of the current geopolitical conflict between the superpowers, it’s relatively easy to line up which side perpetrated which attacks against which.
Contents
3rd April 2021 - Svalbard Cable Vanishes
7th January 2022 - Svalbard Cable Cut
26th September 2022 - Nord Stream Pipeline
8th October 2022 - First Kerch Strait Bridge Attack
20th October 2022 - Shetland Islands Cable Cut
24th October 2022 - French Cables Cut For 2nd Time In A Year
6th June 2023 - Nova Kakhovka Dam Explosion
17th July 2023 - Second Kerch Strait Bridge Attack
10th October 2023 - Vessel Damages Balticonnector Pipeline
30th November 2023 - Two Rail Routes Deep In Russia Attacked
27th February 2024 - Houthi Rebels Cut Ocean Cables in Bab al-Mandab Strait
24th April 2024 - Attacks on Russian Rosneft-owned Oil Depots
3rd April 2021 - Svalbard Cable Vanishes
4.2km of subsea cable was stolen in April 2021 from Svalbard and hasn’t been seen since.
7th January 2022 - Svalbard Cable Cut
The fastest fibre optic cable in the world was cut in two places in Svalbard in January 2022. Svalbard is a territory belonging to Norway in the Arctic Circle. Interestingly, the Svalbard Treaty is one of the final standing treaties from the Treaty of Versailles post-WW1. It allows any signatory to use Svalbard for research and mining purposes.
Svalbard also contains the Seed Bank of all the world’s seeds for when we inevitably destroy ourselves. The final important aspect of this is all the world’s satellites connect to the world at Svalbard. Whoever cut the cable didn’t want something to be seen by other states.
26th September 2022 - Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage
The “whodunnit” of September 2022 was the sabotage of the Nord Stream Pipelines. Connecting Russia to Germany, the pipelines carried natural gas. After the onset of the Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022, the gas flowing through the pipeline had been reduced until somebody blew it up.
