Mala Grkinja
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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Peskov: Russia-US relations have reached their LOWEST EVER "Our relations, across all areas, have reached their lowest point in history — they have essentially come to a halt."
🚨🇷🇺🇯🇵 BREAKING: Russia warns Japan that "the supply of weapons to Ukraine will be treated as a hostile act — and will be met with a harsh response."
I’m sorry but the future belongs to those who read widely, who are able to write without the assistance of a machine, who haven’t allowed endless slop to kill their curiosity and cognitive abilities. Excess tech is going to melt many brains. Yours doesn’t need to be one of them.
Large protests against Trump took place across major US cities, marking the third wave of “No Kings” rallies. #Trump #NoKings
BREAKING: UAE calls on all Gulf countries to strike Iran jointly for opening strait of Hormuz as soon as possible.
JUST IN: Iran just threatened to cut the undersea internet cables running through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea. Ninety-five to ninety-seven percent of global internet traffic does not travel by satellite. It travels through physical glass fibres buried one to two metres beneath the seabed. Your bank transfers. Your stock trades. Your cloud computing. The data flows connecting every financial market on earth to every other financial market. All of it runs through cables laid across the same shallow waters where the IRGC is currently operating a selective toll regime and collecting yuan for passage. The cables at risk per TeleGeography: FALCON, Gulf Bridge International, Europe India Gateway, SEA-ME-WE 6, AAE-1, and FLAG in the Hormuz corridor. EIG, AAE-1, Seacom, SMW-4, SMW-5, SMW-6, IMEWE, and 2Africa Pearls in the Red Sea. These are not obscure regional links. They are the backbone of global digital commerce connecting Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The IRGC stated on March 28: “Critical infrastructure in Hormuz and Red Sea will not be spared if aggression continues.” No cable has been cut. Google and Meta have activated contingency rerouting. The threat is credible as asymmetric signaling but execution is high-risk and likely a bluff. Here is why. In 2008, eight cables were severed off the Egyptian coast. Seventy to eighty percent of Middle East-to-Europe traffic went dark. Repairs took three to eight weeks. In 2024, Houthi-related anchor drags in the Red Sea damaged four cables. Repairs took months. Both incidents were almost certainly accidental. Deliberate state-sponsored cable sabotage at scale has never been executed because the consequences are mutually destructive: Iran’s own connectivity depends on these same cables, and any confirmed cut would trigger immediate US, UK, and French naval retaliation from fleets already in theatre. But the threat itself is the weapon. Cable operators are rerouting. Rerouting costs money. Insurance on cable infrastructure is repricing. Every institution that relies on sub-40-millisecond latency between Asian and European financial centres is now running contingency scenarios that did not exist 28 days ago. The threat creates friction in the global financial plumbing without requiring a single fibre to be severed. And the beneficiary of the threat is sitting on a Trump-Modi phone call discussing Starlink India approval. Starlink’s LEO constellation of over 9,500 satellites provides resilient broadband via phased-array terminals that electronically steer narrow beams to avoid jamming. Iran has deployed GPS spoofing and RF noise against Starlink since January. Packet loss spiked to 30 to 80 percent. Starlink countered with firmware updates and beamforming nulls that reduced loss to usable levels. The arms race is real but Starlink is winning it. Starlink Maritime is already deployed on tankers rerouting around the Hormuz corridor. Major shipping lines are equipping vessels with flat-panel terminals delivering 100 to 220 megabits per second at 20 to 40 milliseconds latency. SpaceX is reportedly filing its IPO prospectus this week per Bloomberg, Reuters, and The Information, targeting a $1.5 to $1.75 trillion valuation in June. Filing into a war where the alternative to his product is glass fibres buried in contested seabed. The same strait carrying 20 percent of the world’s oil, 20 percent of its LNG, and one-third of its helium also carries 95 percent of the world’s data. Oil. Gas. Helium. Semiconductors. Fertilizer. Internet traffic. Yuan tolls. All flowing through or over 39 kilometres of water between Iran and Oman. One chokepoint. Every domain. The market has not priced the convergence. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
