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		hulitu 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'Shadow fleets' and sabotage: are Europe's underse... No, because a submarine is pretty useless against an excavator.

Gravityloss 7 months ago [–]

excavators don't typically operate in international waters though...

Polizeiposaune 7 months ago | [–]

I think this was intended as snark about how one of the recent Baltic submarine cable outages was eventually attributed to on-shore damage from an excavator.

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