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The article suggests that this is an escalation relative to the last few years. I don't think the article is suggesting that no such thing as sabotage had ever happened previously.

I also think the significance here is in the context of Russian aggression in Europe beyond Ukraine.

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> I also think the significance here is in the context of Russian aggression in Europe beyond Ukraine.

Yes, and it also frames the ramp up of Russian aggression triggered by the ongoing demolition of the US. It's the deep sea cable-cutting attacks in the Baltic, today's drone attack on Chernobyl's dome, etc. We're bound to see a ramp-up in these actions in the near future, and the only peaceful exit for this scenario is helping Ukraine win by supplying it with everything they need to win. Any other scenario will involve more wars and more war fronts.

Well, with the USA now distancing itself from NATO, and aligning itself with Russia more closely than at any historical moment after WWII — even sabre rattling about expansionist conquests of its own and abandoning preservation of the international order — Germany finds itself bereft of a powerful ally and with a greatly degraded deterrent against Russian aggression. It is the right moment for Russia to advance.

It's not like sabotaging German ships will cause Germany to increase military spending or fix the Bundeswehr's comically bad procurement process so there is little risk for Russia in these actions.

they can piss of the population at least enough for them to support mor military funding, at is bad for russia, so why do that?

Well, they blew up an ammunition dump in the Czech Republic 10 years ago, they are sabotaging electric and fiber cables, including to a highly sensitive Norwegian air base:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrb%C4%9Btice_ammunition_...

https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/someone-cut-a-ke...

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