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I don’t think the people running the show in Niger have the capability or know how to pull off an underwater cable shear that looks like a landslide. I bet even most developed countries wouldn’t be able to do it flawlessly.

Particularly from a landlocked country ...

Junta

Sorry, are you suggesting that the undersea landslide was intentional?

Surely they have no support from a country that historically has damaged submarine cables as a sort of hobby, right?

Vagner, for sure

Uss Jimmy Carter

If it's dealing with underwater cables, USS Halibut is the boat you want. They just need to look for "Made In The USA" stamped on any of the incriminating evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells

Carter is FU espionage V.3.0

But the NSO/NSA/SF red teams are formidable...

Carter is on that team.

Carter is known to have a huge slurping nose which allows for the pickup and splicing of deep ocean lines such that they can put anything as rudimentary as a vampire-tap (copper) or an actual muxing fiber splice to beam split traffic...

Nice. Of course the Wiki page of the boat is missing all of those details. However, I was disappointed that the pictures do not show landing skids!

Edit: i was looking at the image of "features" for this boat, and holy cow it looks like the most amazing spy platform. as cartoonish as that image is, anyone with any inkling of what underwater spy craft is about, this looks extremely purpose built for that "FU espionage v3.0" you mentioned.

This is why the AWS sets in utah... among ither =groand things,,,, Youll find out eventually.

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