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#HOUTHIS: The Unknowns of the severed cable. Antonia Colibasanu, Geopolitical Futures. @GPFutures

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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#HOUTHIS: The Unknowns of the severed cable. Antonia Colibasanu, Geopolitical Futures. @GPFutures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/disruptions-to-undersea-cables/

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0:00.0

This is a CVS, I on the world, I'm John Bachelor. Undersea cables at the critical

0:10.7

juncture entering the Red Sea from the Indian Ocean.

0:16.4

There is news and the news is moving.

0:19.4

Red Sea internet cables cut affecting Asia-Europe traffic, what we know so far within these

0:24.8

last hours. According to the BBC, quoting HGC global communications in Hong Kong,

0:31.8

four out of 15 communication cables lying at the bottom of the Red Sea were damaged

0:38.0

affecting a quarter of the internet traffic between Asia and Europe.

0:42.0

Accident?

0:42.8

Perhaps.

0:43.9

I welcome Antonio Kalabashano.

0:46.5

She is an analyst at geopolitical features,

0:49.2

as well as a professor in Bucharest Romania.

0:54.4

To help me understand this story, which is a moving story.

0:57.3

There are many cables.

0:59.0

CCOM, TGM, Gulf, Asia, Africa, Europe,

1:02.0

WAN, and Europe, India Gateway are the four most concerned about damage.

1:06.9

And Tony, a very good evening to you.

1:08.7

Thank you.

1:09.8

Undersea cables, it seems so old-fashioned of us who actually have a hard wire between

1:15.0

two tin cans. Once upon a time this was the renovation that made world

1:21.4

communication possible when the cable was laid across the Atlantic

1:24.6

and all the other waterways. This particular waterway, however, is at the same time

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