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posted by martyb on Monday November 12 2018, @10:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the know-where-you-are-REALLY-at dept.

BBC:

Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila has said the GPS signal in his country's northern airspace was disrupted during recent Nato war games in Scandinavia.

He said he believed the signal had been jammed deliberately and that it was possible Russia was to blame because it had the means to do so.

Finland is not a Nato member but joined the war games which began last month.

Norway also reported GPS problems during the exercises near Russia's north-western borders.
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The Finnish region of Lapland and northern parts of Norway close to the Russian border were affected, with the Norwegian regional airline Widerøe confirming its pilots had experienced GPS disruption, Germany's DW news site reports.

However, the airline pointed out that pilots aboard civilian aircraft had other options when a GPS signal failed.

Finland has called "shenanigans" on Russia.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:47PM (#761253)

    What's your definition of evil? I find it hard to come up with something that doesn't put a bunch of 'good' countries at the top of the list.

    Secret courts, secret agencies spying on its own citizens, extra-judicial murder, inventing terms as terrorist/enemy combatant/... to not have to justify civilian casualties, daily institutionalized torture, ... that's all on the US's record. (And doesn't seem to be influenced much by the party in power)

    I'm not saying Russia isn't evil, they are. But their are worse evils closer to home you may want to fight first. And maybe like Putin, that's also not going away as long as one of [D,R] is in power.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @04:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @04:06PM (#761341)

    Well put. The entire ruling class is filthy from Russia to China to the EU to the USA/UK. The only thing I can think of that Russia does that's evil that the EU/USA/UK don't do (any more) is anti-LGBT laws, but the Western world is quickly reneging on their formerly progressive stance on LGBT equality, especially given the conciliationist Democratic Party in the USA that seemed to be fine with being towed rightwards straight into fascism.

    The international working class is the only social force that has the capability of confronting and struggling against the evils of the ruling elite.