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Finland gets tough after the latest apparent act of sabotage targeting undersea cables.

This really turns a new page in the way NATO countries are handling this.

And obviously in the future, any captain of a ship that might cut a cable deliberately or otherwise will know that they can contend with helicopters full of heavily armed fins dropping onto the deck.

Plus, American car buyers start thinking smaller and Netflix scores big on its NFL debut. It's Friday, December 27th. I'm Luke Vargas

for the Wall Street Journal, and here is today's edition of What's News, the top headlines

and business stories moving your world today. Elite Finnish border units and police

raided a tanker carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea overnight,

a vessel that Finland says may have severed undersea power and data cables on Christmas Day.

Finland's Prime Minister defended the unusual move,

saying it aimed to end a recent wave of incidents targeting critical undersea infrastructure belonging

to countries in the NATO alliance.

Boyan Panchevsky is the journal's chief European political correspondent in Berlin.

Bojan, this raid overnight sounds pretty dramatic and a far cry from the quite patient,

can we say, response that we've seen to past incidents. What might that tell us?

Absolutely. It is unprecedented in the context of the past couple of years since the war in Ukraine

started and this kind of wave of sabotage was initiated. Basically, the message coming out from

Finland is no more Mr. Nice Guy. They've had

Finnish cables cut twice now in over a month, and they've decided enough is enough. They deployed

special units from Border Guard, which has kind of a paramilitary special force, and they deployed the special force of the police, known as the Bears Squad.

They were heavily armed with submachine guns.

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