Russia-linked cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland ‘was loaded with spying equipment’

It's actually 4 in the last 2 years. There was also a gas pipeline damaged in October of 2023 in addition to 2 data cables about a month ago.

Of course it does. But the others were (legally speaking) just suspicions and the vessels in question weren't in Finnish waters, so there was only so much our officials could legally do (and one could pretty strongly argue that they should've done more).

But on this particular case with a whole cargo ship apparently filled to brim with spying equipment, there's very little hard facts on the story and the best approach would be to wait until our officials conduct their search and write reports. Then, after official and confirmed facts, we can discuss about it further. Right now spreading news like this doesn't really cause anything more than even more distruption to global situation which is already a pretty complex mess.

And even the 'russia links', on this individual case, are a bit thin line to walk. Assuming russians are behind it (and I would be the least surprised if that was actually proven) they've hidden their tracs pretty well, so now it's only a domestic tool for them: "Look how the Finnish people among others doubt us for everyting even if we've done nothing and there's a paper trail to prove it". Facts are the hard currency with the information war going on, and this is not it.

And, as I've got decent chunk of downvotes on previous comment, I would very much like to see the Russian federation to collapse eventually and for the situation in Ukraine to smooth out, but on their own terms. Should Ukraine fall I'm afraid we'd be the next to defend our borders and I'm too old for that shit. I'll of course do my part should the need rise, but I'm not looking forward on it. I've spoken to enough of our veterans to know that the saying 'war is war and hell is hell, and the first one is way worse' is a fact and I don't want my kids to experience that.