I can understand why governments would push for something like this after 9/11, though it of course goes without saying that this is a totally unacceptable violation of someone’s basic rights. It also goes without saying that governments always want more control over their citizens, but what exactly are they so worried might happen, right now, in 2025 or the near future?

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 days ago

    It’s certainly the agenda being pushed.

    Are you referring to Nordstream, or another Baltic pipe?

    It looks like the Polish train accidents are no longer blamed on Russia.

    Polish authorities initially believed Russian sabotage was afoot.[1]

    But after investigations were carried out by Poland’s Internal Security Agency, it seems that local radio enthusiasts using amateur equipment managed to copy the brake signal used to override the manual functions of the train operator and force the trains to stop abruptly, causing the accidents.[1:1]

    I no longer take any of the accusations from Western intelligence at face value (i.e. without evidence), because I believe they’ve lied about Russian culpability so many times in the past.[2] I don’t discount the possibility though—the Baltic Sea cables one seems to have a plausible motive at the very least, if they were used for NATO communications.

    1. https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/31/is-russian-sabotage-behind-20-recent-train-accidents-in-poland ↩︎ ↩︎

    2. Including the 2016 US election meddling and DNC email hack, the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, MH17, the Mariupol theater bombing, the Bucha massacre, and the Nordstream pipeline. ↩︎