Thanos Kalamidas - Geopolitics

At 12:26 on the morning of 25 December 2024, the crew of the Finnish patrol vessel “Turva” received a call that would come to define Europe's new security dilemma. Somewhere in the black waters of the Gulf of Finland, the EstLink 2 power cable, a 170-kilometre artery carrying electricity between Finland and Estonia, had gone silent. Within minutes, four fibre-optic telecommunications cables followed. The outage map lit up like a Christmas tree nobody wanted.