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Re:'Shadow fleets' and sabotage: are Europe's undersea cable... by theshrike79 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @07:18AM (#43265586)
Basically Russia's tactic is to spread FUD, but in the real world.

Small sabotage attempts at water towers, power plants etc. Nothing actually happens but it gets in the news and people think something COULD have happened.

It keeps people stressed a bit all the time and they start wanting things to go back to "normal" at any cost - even by letting Russia keep the bits of Ukraine they assaulted.

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Re:'Shadow fleets' and sabotage: are Europe's undersea cable... by marcosdumay on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:13PM (#43269424)
> Nothing actually happens but it gets in the news and people think something COULD have happened.

Most likely, they prop it as a huge win domestically, so that the public keeps thinking they are winning and become easier to placate.

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