• eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 days ago

    The US spent decades telling Europe to trust the transatlantic relationship, then somehow managed to make a literal cable across the Arctic look like the more reliable connection. That’s an impressive achievement in diplomacy: when your allies start routing around you like a network failure.

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      They don’t seem to have a problem using the current ~20 cables running between Europe and the US.