First Cut Is the Deepest: Medvedev Threatens to Cut Undersea Cables
In an online post Wednesday on the Telegram messaging app, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said there were no longer any “moral limits” that would prevent Moscow from cutting undersea cables that transmit everything from gas to electricity, banking data and military communications between the USA and Europe. His threat echoed an argument that was used to justify Russian attacks on the two Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that run through the Baltic Sea. The explosions that ruptured them last…
