Mysterious Damage to Baltic Sea Data Cable Raises Alarms in Germany

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Something fishy is going on in the Baltic Sea!** Germany's defense minister, Boris Pistorius, suspects sabotage after a data cable between Germany and Finland was damaged. This comes after reports of a second undersea cable being damaged in the same maritime region where the Nord Stream pipelines were sabotaged in 2022. Is this just a coincidence? Or is there something more sinister at play?

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