Russia Targets Europe's Offshore Infrastructure
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Into Europe: Europe is readying up for an explosion in the amount of offshore infrastructure in the form of offshore wind turbines, new gas fields, and pipelines.
Yet that infrastructure is vulnerable. Pipelines are susceptible to being blown up and internet cables being cut. So can Europe protect its offshore infrastructure?
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That's a very good video! It's rare to see it highlighted just how much water plays a key role on Europe, compared to the relative bulkiness of China or the US which have landmassas which are more blobby.
I think a better way to phrase it would be that western and central Europe lack continentality compared to the US and China
You're joking, right? China has a couple of choke points through which the bulk of their imported fuel travels and all it takes is the US to cut them off with help from Asian allies then China is a sitting duck who could be attacked until they surrender
It's really important, too. It's a huge part of the reason why Europe's economy came to dominate the rest of the World in the Early Modern Period. Europe has a huge amount of coastline (IIRC, 30% of all the World's coasts - but don't quote me on that). This means they have an abundance of natural harbors, which makes bul shipping a breeze (also Europe has an abundance of navigable rivers serving as internal water ways making transcontinental trade much eaiser). Other continents are not so fortunate; Africa, for instance, has only 2% of the World's coastline, in spite of its great landmass. Africa also has few navigable rivers besides the Nile (and even that is cutoff at 6 places by cataracts).
That's totally true. Amendments to the international conventions are needed
Such as?
@@VEVOJavier make colonialism legal again.
EU really need to set up a real defensive alliance and insitutions ASAP.
NATO is not enough, is more aligned with USA interest than Europeans ones.
We are entering a more violent world, where developed countries like Europeans ones are envied and contested.
We need to enter this world prepared and armed.
Europe is largely capable to develop a strong navy, air force, space force and army.
NATO's whole purpose is to ensure the security of Europe. So the idea that NATO is more aligned with the US who's primary concern is in the pacific; is comical.
@@arkad6329
No, what is comical is saying that NATO defends Europe, while one of it's member (Turkey) is illegally occupying 50% an EU country (Cyprus).
It's not because US has more interests in the Pacific that it has none on Europe.
The second front of European defence is the Mediterranean, where things are getting more and more hot by the year.
And yet, NATO is no where to be found, completly disanged, despite Greece, Cyprus and Spain being directly under threat of invasion.
NATO defend Europe where USA wants.
I don't blame USA, it's not in their interests to be against Turkey or be involved in Western Mediterranean conflicts.
But that's exactly why EU must step up take Europe defence in their own hand, as they are the only one legitimate to do so.
@@mrsupremegascon NATO is first and foremost an anti USSR/Russia organization and as such not too concerned with other threads.
While its proving it's worth in the current conflict more military cooperation (and spending) within Europe is needed.
I would add that the phrase "rules-based international order" *is* *not* "international order" or "based on international law" (think UN).
Rather, it is a specific US-centric term that's begun making the rounds. Of course the fundamental question is who makes the rules.
@@mrsupremegascon "NATO defends Europe where USA wants."
That's a bit hyperbolic. The US makes up 50% of the NATO Assets. So most of what NATO is, is American forces. I agree the European powers need to do more, in terms of defense. However I doubt it will happen.
"I don't blame USA, it's not in their interests to be against Turkey or be involved in Western Mediterranean conflicts."
Oh Ok. I guess we are just going to ignore the US 6th Fleet. It's only a Super Carrier Task Force and several Aegis Destroyers and Cruisers. No big deal. Every nation in the world can just supply those.
🙄
It should be mentioned though that the shetland cable was probably cut by a fishing vessel and not a russian attack
Feels scarier tbh that an accident, not a malicious sabotage was enough to sever the connection.
@@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022 True that
The point of this video is to fear-monger and pretend Russia is a bigger threat than it is in reality, stop breaking the propaganda 😂
Really well done! Great visuals combined with great research, a killer combination indeed!
Thanks Joeri! Nice to see you drop by my comment section :)
Your studios are the same.
Finally some Europe centric channel as European I felt felt out with regards to how US centric YT is.
YT is literally a American platform. It would be weird if it wasn't.
never have i thought european would feel left out. imagine what like southeast asian feel.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 well no offence but on world stage European union is tad bit more important than southeast Asia.
@@simon2493 thats the point. europe were always in the spotlight.
😂😂😂
Your videos never fail to impress me. From the visual presentation to the extensive research behind each piece. Very much appreciated work!
Pity that it's just American propaganda, payed for by the neo liberal far right.
Yes, that lot that ruined the entire global economy just for profits, back then in 2008. And now they're trying to do it again but everybody hates the US financial industry and doesn't buy their crap anymore. Something this boy conveniently has 'forgotten' to put into the equation.
The quality of your video is impeccable and the topic is well researched. A+
We need an EU coastguard, like frontex and interpol, but seperate. Maybe devided into three zones
That cost guard would have a really hard time winning approval of Italy or Poland, being given that Brussels has played mostly a part against border defence, not in its favour. Dublin II and other idiotic, idealistic policies have made aliens removal almost impossible and EU's oversight only makes it worse.
The EU sort of did that on a small scale in an operation against piracy off of the horn of Africa. Operation Atalanta.
@@BeezerWashingbeard Not really, as there was conflict of interest between participating nations and woke Eurocracy.
@@Festucius I'll have to add 'Eurocracy' to my vocabulary.
@@BeezerWashingbeard Might as well forget it and the term "woke" as well, they're nothing but meaningless emotionally charged buzzwords.
Great video as usual.
Would like to especially point out the choice of topic and the animations.
Thank you for the content!
Actually are 4 zones Territorial waters, Border zone, EEZ and Open sea
I think he didn't add the open sea because it was obvious
@@houseplant1016 still not a good look when important info is left out
@@wile123456 How is that important if there are no open sea territories in europe?
@@EdGeLV the atlantic ocean don't exists aparantly 💀
@@wile123456 True, you're totally right but I think that the audience that he attracts already knows these basic things. But you're right, he should be correct.
Thank you for making this video. It's very cognizant
This is such a well made video ❤️
3:12 @IntoEurope, 12 NMi is NOT 18 km, it is 22.2 km
Thank you dutch guy. I appreciate your videos
Didn't even hear about the shetland cable until now, jesus.
I think we've grown up in this post ww2 and post cold war world where everything in europe is sunshine and blue skies - but this has skewed our view on how the world works.
Just have too see who benefited the most from the Nord Stream incidents, and surprisingly it not Russia.
There seems to be some techincal issues with this video where certain scenes are in a really low fps, the transitions at 02:09 and the entire 02:30 to 02:40 segment.
Ahhh yes you are right, it is unintentionally set to 12 FPS. Thanks for the heads up!
Well, you can essentially park a platform or a ship at a offshore wind farm park since and it will provide all the energy they needs for upkeep. Then you can install sensors running cross the cables and have drones patrol the route filming it. Like you said in the video, the problem with retaliation is providing proof of who's saboteur is. Also, Europe can't just allow for endless streams of sabotages just because they can't catch the actor with the hand in the cookie jar. At some point they will have had enough and do their own covert missions.
German-Russo gas line exploded.
Poland: such a loss, very sad, anyway
Yes
Great video!
Well it’s hard to defend the 2nd largest coast line in the world. 🇳🇴
Ok, don't defend EVERY fjord
This is where military satellite comes into play as satellites can help monitored coastlines and detecting foreign objects from entering a country's territory
Great video
Yeah … great subject indeed
CLEAR and CONCISE
I really appreciate that you bring to surface these issues.
If the Europea nations would dispatch warship to fight pirates off the coasdt Aden and Somalia, then this state of affair is frankly unacceptable.
Espcially given then in between UK EU and all the allied countries can practically divi up the North Sea like an inland lake of Europe. The Baltic and medieterranean are tricky but given the will it's definitely managable.
If internal sabotage is sth you even need to worry about then you can say good bye to this European integration projet
The pirates are there because of Western and Asian fishing ships emptying the Somali sea of fish. These pirates were originally fishermen who are trying to protect their sea. I'm surprised @Into Europe liked this comment.
@@jasonhaven7170 you have a point about the practice wit European fishery which is probably a good idea for the channel
My point is the countries would send warships to patrol the sea at the other side of the world it's absurd they have a problem at the lake at home
Good Video
Thank you for the Tenet mention. Forgot to watch it. 😅
I hope everything is fine. You only post 1 video a month according to your video posts which sucks because you dish out really good content.
Yes I am doing okay :) I am still struggling a bit in accelerating my production process, but nothing that should be impossible to overcome!
Thanks for yout concern :)
the audible clicks every time a photo comes up, is over used and unpleasant.
Please talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees
And its european based. It could show up on a video about itself (wich would be kinda off the topics of the channel) or in videos about climate action in the EU or tech "companies" in the EU
Had never thought about this. In theory the Russians could just pull up near an offshore wind farm do some sort of weapons test which takes out the wind farm and it would all be legal. Mind-blowing.
You can't protect underwater pipes or cable's anywhere!!!
Your audio is clipping between cuts
An EU navy and EU army should be formed. Little insignificant regions at the whim of bigger powers is not sustainable for us. This isn’t the 19th century, Europe needs a revival of power.
Layin cable to Cyprus through Turkish EEZ is not a good idea, dont say we didnt warn you....
Please tell ur editor to stop the transition sound, the extremely high pitched beep. It's literally painful for the ears
I literally had to stop half way thru as my ears hurt
*fibre. You're not American.
But not british either.
Weakness keeps us inovate things.
It's all in the bag 😅
Nor can they protect their countries.
This is rather one sided. Baltic is a blockage point for Russia. They need to travel it's length, and the EEA nations need to travel it's width at most. The Med is the same except that it is even easier for the EEA countries.
Europe shoud give back Kaliningrad region back to native Baltic Prussians, so the security of Baltic would be mostly resolved.
Isn’t Kaliningrad now Russian, so it would be the Russians giving it back, not the EU.
@@roman648 Yes, it was given to Soviets after the war by Allied powers.
@@artursbondars7789 Shame it’s been reduced to nothing more than Russia’s fortress enclave in the heart of Europe.
The US blew up NordStream.
Anyone with a brain knows that
Cool
Just goes to show you that Europe NEEDS American protection.
Why do you only assume, the sabotage is an act of russia? Sure, they have a cause and certainly a benifit, but the americans do as well. Maybe even more. I wouldn't rule that out and if you want to stay fact based and neutral, you shouldn't either.
True. Russia since the beginning is the one who constructed the pipeline with Germany footing half of its costs. Would make no sense as to why they also the one who blew it up
If Russia decide to destroy underwater cables/gas pipes or whatever here in Norway we are boned. Our armed forces and specially our navy is pathetic😂
Who gained most from the Nordstream incident? Norway.
Usa actually
It's the US buddy. Look at the European Parliament speech not long after the incident where the German MP criticized the US for charging gas towards Europe 4x higher than the Russian prices
I don't wanna trigger anyone. However, my gut feeling tells me Poland is responsible for the attack.
Kinda my thoughts as well. Also wouldn't surprise me if there was covert US involvement, not that we'd ever admit it.
Bro, poland don't have any interest to blow up ns2
Lol tray and see. Ukraine did not happen and will not happen
Well, what is good for the goose is good for the ganter. If something explodes, some other things in Russia could explode as well. Those things happen, after all...
The problem is also Russian "fishing boats" and "research ships" are causing this sabbotage aswell as espionage
Honestly the cuts to your face are a bit unnecessary man
Nah it fits
Chill, he’s a handsome nerdy dude, we like it
@@watershed8685 oh no you stole my line
@@felineboy1586 I am not a sharing type so all is fair in this fight
7o
Z is zet!
Use SI units! Nobody understand some obsolete crap from long dead „empire“.
Nautical miles are still appropriate at sea and he also uses km at most times.
For conversion, 2km=1NM is usually a close enough approximation
Nice propaganda)
What
@@fra604 he’s a Russist, he hates it when the West consolidates
It's better to believe in whatever Putin, Lukashenko or Kim Jong Un tells you.
@@alfrredd But nothing beats the feeling of being told what to do by a 70 year old Grandpa who were voted to became President out of desperation. Lol and he couldn't even talked and make commands without his little cue cards 😂😂😂
Königsberg
I miss the old days when empires just declared war on each other. nukes are a mistake, everyone just start war actions like a backstabbing.
what
@@zzz_zzzzzzz_zzz_imtired he’s a prideful observer, he likes watching plebeians killing each other for his pride
I know it's trolling, but before there was backstabbing as well. Empires did both.
It used to be simpler. Now it feels like people can easily rage quit. (Drop some nuke)
Kenneth Waltz might disagree with you 😂
the UK and french cables were damaged by fishing boats... no one has suggested otherwise
you're a liar and you know it
www.highnorthnews.com/en/fiber-optic-submarine-cable-near-faroe-and-shetland-islands-damaged-mediterranean-cables-also-cut
@@IntoEurope this is a flat out lie. authorities are not calling it sabotage. you lied and found a single article on an irrelevant site to agree with you to cover your ass
goodbye. i don't waste time on liars
@@IntoEurope it was USA
whoever did english CC; NATO = NATO, not neito or anything else.....
Interesting, despite living in Europe, I didn't know/tend to forget how vulnerable we are to economic attacks.
Especially from the sea
We're especially vulnerable when it's the US that decides to blow up European infrastrutture
It's all in the bag 😅
This channel is really top notch for in-depth analysis of European current events and their historical precedents. Cheers.
no it isn't. the UK and french internet cables were damaged by fishing boats, it's fairly common and no one is suggesting otherwise.
he's a liar and he knows it
@@afgor1088 😭 sure bud definitely not the usa’s doing
@@davidmichels5295 yeah. It's not
@@afgor1088 the UK and France do not spend nearly enough on military
@@davidmichels5295 they buy oil through Internet cables going to Shetland?...
Idiot
Beautiful video!
heyyy you
Really good! Please, continue. Also please review the subtitles, they spell your words like “NAITO”, “Neito” (instead of NATO) and “offer” (instead of “offshore”).
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this strikes me as a core around which to start a European military.
just a whole bunch of aerial and naval surveillance capability that protects the European coastline and EEA.
once this stands you can slowly add other capabilities until you have the individual countries can safely disband their own military.
A navy could not solve the problem. You would need to cover an area that is way to big.
The reason why such sabotages happened is because EU countries are not at war, despite what some say.
If they were, any suspect ship would be kept out of EU waters, or sunk.
European navies are good enough for that.
This is the first time I've seen your videos. I'm blown away. Looking forward to seeing your growth. Great video and presentation by the way!
In the first 30 seconds I've seen better CGI in this clip than the entire Marvel phase 4
I think you're doing a great job! It's a great analysis and opens a rich discussion. However, I think we all would appreciate a document in which you provide your sources. That would make you one of the few informers that do provide such document which, nowadays, I think its really important to at least evaluate the content and its interpretation. Thanks a lot for your work!
honestly by this logic, no one can protect its coasts...
and guess what - it makes sense if you understand the vastness of the sea
I don't think that protecting it is the right solution or even possible. Such cables are way to long to be monitored to detect the samll threats that could damage it.
But using multiple connected systems to cover if one of them fails, secrecy and military together cN achieved good results
makes sense if one goes done there'll be many more to take its place just in case
Internet cable in Shetland was cut off by a fishing boat.
I didnt know the ships responsible are known. Sweden didnt want to specify who did it for reasons unknown.
solid underwater stuff
EU needs a navy
European countries have navies. The oldest in the world
@@drpepper3838 dont think you understood what i wrote
@Xamufam I understood it fine. There's never gonna be a eu army/navy. EU isn't a single thing. Try combining 27 Countries each with different languages cultures goals beliefs into 1 command structure. No thx.
@@drpepper3838 india basically did this lol
@@kaiden7063 except india has 122 languages
The 200 miles exclusive zone are the responsibilitie of the country that "owns" the resources on that area of the ocean.
Can't believe i read a comment saying shots to the pretty nerd boy are not necessary like what talk about being unrelatable and uninformed 🙄🙄🙄
I love your videos! They are really great and show the situation from many different views! As far as I know I think Spain uses some of its navy to monitor its waters, having spotted a russian submarine in 2023
The only agreement I could foresee taking place relatively easily is a defence agreement between the UK, Norway, and potentially Denmark and the Netherlands regarding the North Sea and the assets the countries possess within the region.
And portugal
@@Hession0Drasha because Portugal always finds itself paired with England in treaties and pacts.
Russia unconventional warfare.
That is where I recognized the set from! Nu ben ik wel benieuwd of jullie gerelateerd zijn :) Maar maakt ook niet uit.
Beide maken jullie super goede video's! Doe de groeten aan Joeri ;)
Zou ik doen!
I just don't know how we are supposed to defend submarine cables
By having a navy capable of patrolling and with powers to investigate incidents. An eu navy.
@@puraLusa A navy to patrol every single offshore field and submarine cable? Just impossible
@@puraLusa eu submarines
@@joaquimbarbosa896 hence the power to investigate to go with it.
Submarines drones and surveillance equipment
Europe needs a small-ship armed navy like our Coast Guard and a tracking system for all ships and boats in the vulnerable areas with arrest and lethal force authority.
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Wait, that was a plot point in tenet? I must have zoned out.
The failure of the Shetlands connectors was assigned to damage caused by a trawler, it has happened before.
There are huge amounts of infrastructure in the North Sea that have been there since the 1980s.
The infrastructure incorporates large amounts of redundancy, there are specific failure modes, including catastrophic loss of the most important assets, which are specified when security of supply is annually assessed for oil, gas and other services provided to the UK.
Responsibility of offshore assets has been the responsibility of the Royal Navy since 1546.
The Coastguard is not responsible for guarding assets in the UK EEZ.
The Royal Navy has recently purchased two ships specifically for the purpose of protecting assets
There are many protective systems deployed in the North Sea and North Atlantic for tracking submarines and undersea drones, including hydrophones and magnetic anomaly detectors, some of which are located on the UK mainland.
Turbines are amongst the most monitored infrastructure in place in the world. Turbine performance is replicated by digital twins which would immediately detect any deviation in predicted and measured behaviour of the turbine structure resulting from the illegal presence of persons. In any event, it is difficult and dangerous to transfer people to offshore assets.
There is absolutely no possibility of the UK providing any access to its EEZ by navies or coastguard of other countries as it will impact the security of the UK's nuclear deterrent. I would imagine that France would adopt the same attitude.
France could but they won't since their miltary are over exhausted due to them taking part in conflicts all across West Africa
Good video. But it wasn’t Russia who blew up nordstream 😉
I won't believe any side tbh. Both of them lie occasionally, even if Russia lies more
2021
Reporter: "How would you remove Nordstream if its in Germany's control?"
Biden: "I promise you we will find a way to remove it"
*Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm* aged like milk
Sure...same way Russia said they weren't about to invade...having a laugh mate...
Of course, and it was simply Russia defending itself on February 24th 2022🙄
It was russia, they sent a ship from kaliningrad.
Pls, make video on private colleges vs public college? Why is private colleges performs better than public?
Cause they have more money and the kids are from a more stable background?
But that's not even true in all countries, most of the time they perform horribly
They charged more and used that money to improves learning quality and supporting infrastructure. Problem with State fund colleges is the bureaucratic mess that always comes with it. Often than not the system, which supposed to serve as check and balances failed
Question why can't frontex patrol the seas like a navy
The solution to human trafficking is making laws less racist and allowing people to flee and migrate more freely. Human traffickers only have a business when the borders are too strict and the politicians ignore UN international laws of asylum and so on
too strict? right now it's open entry and there is zero chance you get deported
Lol it's the opposite. There is no large market for human traffiking in the west but huge in 3rd world countriees with less secure border. Get out of your echoe chamber Wei.
Europe should and will just fund, northern africa to resttict their border in exchange for capital.
@@RRRRR15 someone is living under a rock and suffering from extreme privlege lmao.
People get deported all the time, people who've gone to school from they were 2 years old, work etc. In Denmark because a girl turned 18, lived alone and didn't have a husband yet, she got automatically send back to Syria because our racist government thinks Syria is "safe"
Every EU country has thousands of cases like this, the UK is one of the worst offenders.
The borders aren't open either, with countries putting people in concentration asylum camps, cutting them off from society and not allowing them to work and pay taxes.
Likewise the entire Rwanda plane policy is the most obvious breach of human rights in recent times, waste of money for a plane and policy with the only benefit is the politicians have to look at brown people less.
If the broders was open, we would allow people to go by plane and ferry easily into Europe. Instead we sink their human smuggling boats and let them drown. Its depravity and you probably don't know any immigrants yourself if you can be so racist and think the system isn't broken
It has nothing to do with races, using this word, only makes your point feeling more like a scam than a reasonable opinion..
Most migrants come from culture that are incompatible with European values. While it is usually not a problem when there is a small number of migrants, that are assimilating, like with Muslims in USA for example. It is a huge threat when the number f migrants is large and they are not assimilating. Like it is the case today in Europe.
Europe is at risk to be come like the Balkans or the Middle East. A patchwork of culture that are incompatible with each others, doesn't share the same values. So very unstable and violent.
UN international laws where made in the last century, in a totally different context, using principle from the 19th and 18th century.
At that time, migration was far more local phenomenon, and asylum seekers went to the next peaceful neighboring countries, instead of going directly to richest ones like today.
It is time to update those laws, so they reflect the reality of the 21th century better.
Solution to human trafficking is to just stopped messing with their damn country and instead focusing on rebuild ours. The US had been meddling too much in Africa and the Middle East and Europe had to suffer as the result. Migration caravans won't happened when their country is left to governed under their own terms and conditions