Newsweek - Planes Hit by Mystery GPS Jamming Across Europe [25/03/2024]

Persistent interference with navigational signals in eastern Europe impacted more than 1,600 airplanes—including civilian aircraft—in less than two days, according to open-source analysis, as jamming plagues the airspace around the Baltic Sea.

Jamming lasting just under 48 hours affected 1,614 airplanes, many of which were civilian aircraft flying around the Baltic region in eastern Europe, according to an open-source intelligence account that regularly tracks GPS interference. An initial map, posted by the account, shows extensive jamming across Poland and southern Sweden early on Saturday. A later map appears to show interference limited to swathes of northern Poland.

Interfering with or spoofing Global Positioning System (GPS) and broader Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) signals can confuse manned or unmanned aircraft, or make their navigation systems believe they are in a different location.

Unnamed pilots told Forbes earlier this year that they had started to switch off GPS navigation when passing close to the Baltic Sea and its surrounding countries in favor of other systems, such as inertial navigation.

A thought experiment for Hexbears (not a spoiler for the Three Body Problem series, I’m not going to say how it played out in the books, but certainly inspired by it):

If America had launched a first strike against China that will wipe out 90% of its population, should China retaliate?

If yes, then hundreds of millions of innocent Americans - who played no part in the aggression - will be killed in a mutually assured destructive process. The retaliation will not in anyway bring back the lives of those who had been targeted during the first strike. It only adds more suffering to the world’s innocents. Worse, it will trigger a global thermonuclear war with a very high probability of wiping out human civilization altogether. The end of humanity as we know it.

In this case, does it make sense to retaliate against a first strike then? Is vengeance that important, even if it means killing millions of innocent people as a result, the end of the entire human race?

Or should the survival of the human race be upheld as the priority, or rather, the utmost priority to harm no innocent, even if it means some people had to be sacrificed in the process because of the “mistakes” of certain bad actors?

Can humanity collectively learn from such “mistakes”, if the receiving side had restrained themselves from retaliating, and thereby giving the rest of humanity a chance for survival and to learn from their previous errors?

Give me your thoughtful/spicy takes.

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Not gonna rely on twitter for this disaster

That's a lot of pissed off settlers. It's a pity the vast majority don't have what it takes to do the right thing:
https://twitter.com/Megatron_ron/status/1774152126815429071

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202403/1309489.shtml

Bayrischer Ministerpräsident (Bavarian head of state, CSU) Markus Söder visited China. Looks like it went well.

The Süddeutsche Zeitung is mocking him.

Denmark's Liberal Party, who makes up a third of the ruling succdem-led right-wing junta, wants to extend the "temporary" border controls at the Danish-German border. Liberal Party leader Troels Lund Poulsen claims that Russia "has previously considered to use refugees as a hybrid threat" and claims that "a very difficult and challenging situation in the Middle East" makes the threat level against Denmark high.

Although Schengen countries are supposed to have open borders internally, Denmark has had "temporary" border controls at the German border almost constantly since 2016 when refugees caused the far right to panic. Border controls has since then been a culture war issue with the far right claiming that the controls stops refugees, drugs, guns, organised crime and every other foreign boogieman from entering. For white and normie-passing people it means you will have to sit in a queue at the border and wait for the world's most bored cops to wave you through. For people who the cops think look funny it means the police will look at you documents and possibly search your car.

I was surprised when Honduras made the switch. I never thought it would happen tbh. Taiwan has a lot of influence in Central America with the PRC’s presence and influence increasing at the same time. I have a feeling that more will eventually make the switch with time.

Guatemala wants to trade more with China while also being a complete US puppet that goes out of its way to accommodate Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine way more than it should be. The chances of us making the switch are likely to happen within the next ten years or so.

Russia has been targeting power generation capacity aggressively in the last couple of weeks. Previously they have targeted distribution systems and haven’t much hit generation capability until recently.

Does that perhaps indicate an intent to cripple a Ukrainian rump state rather than occupy it?