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Russia is signaling it could take out the West's internet and GPS. There's no good backup plan.

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Undersea cables that enable global communications are a legitimate target for Russia , a Russian official says.

The vast network of undersea fiber optic cables that transfer data between continents is vulnerable to hostile powers, experts say.

NATO 's intelligence chief David Cattler warned that Russia may be planning to target the cables in revenge for the West 's support for Ukraine in its war against Russia .

CSIS called for the US to increase international cooperation to coordinate a response to a potential attack on cables.

It said that the current legal and international framework for undersea-cable sabotage was "complex and fragmented" The task of protecting undersea cables often falls on private companies that own and maintain them.

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