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Finnair pauses some Estonia flights due to GPS interference

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Russians have been jamming GPS in the region for some time.

Ukraine has attacked Russian oil and gas terminals in the Gulf of Finland, so it's not just attempt to piss off NATO. They are also jamming in their own cities.

Israel does the same in the Middle East for the same reason (Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Syria). They also spoof the signals sometimes.

They have been jamming for a long time, well before Ukraine demonstrated any capabilities outside its borders. It is just particularly heavy in last couple of weeks.

They have known that the attacks are coming.

40% of Russian oil and gas goes trough Baltic sea and all other routes are in full capacity. Those terminals are Russian are enabling the war and very valuable target for Ukraine.

I would expect NATO to protect them as well. NATO needs that oil and gas.

Attempt to pinpoint the source: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1cga2ft/heat_map_o...

How is it not an attack on Estonia? What kind of attack will count as an attack? What if a plane crashes because of it?

I wonder how much longer Europe will be able to pretend they're not at war this time around.

it is certainly weird how Europe has this tendency, isn't it?

Silly games. What if a NATO fighter with a full kit under its wings gets lost and embeds its cargo into the walls of the RF army command HQ?

>"It is a fact that Russia affects GPS devices in our region’s airspace,"

Fuck the Russian government.

Well I mean they were very much fine with shooting down civilian airliner sanctioned by puttin' and hoped in vain that Ukraine government gets the blame (only for KGB guy Strelkov to boast about doing it a bit later, apart from all the other clear evidence).

Human lives, be it russian or literally anybody else, have for russian government 0 value in the way it has for the rest of the world, and don't hold your breath about rest of population being massively different than government (I don't mean few great folks here and there who didn't escape yet, I mean whole 150 million population overall). This has been true for centuries and while much of the world moved on from those barbaric times, they didn't and recently went into full throttle reverse. Any treaties with them are worth less than paper they are on, they uphold them only if it suits them.

Anybody watching how they behave either in Ukraine or previously elsewhere, anywhere ain't surprised a bit. Accept the reality of who they are and who they are definitely not, then we can start effectively dealing with this cancer of modern world with massive inferiority complex (for which there are tons of good reasons, but it didn't have to go this way with more moral nation).

No love there, only the opposite, facts are clear and consistent.

Don't think Russia's all that special. The only reason the West values those lives is that they're valuable pawns against Russia. To see how the West acts about lives that aren't valuable pawns, just look at Palestine. The West lost all moral credibility after Palestine. Our governments can't claim they care about human life any more.

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