Kai Risdahl

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The list of the things the president's war in Iran has disrupted is long.

No need to recap here, I do believe.

But I will add an item.

Europe's Internet connection to Asia.

Most intercontinental Internet traffic travels through undersea fiber optic cables.

That has been the case for a good long while.

It turns out, though, that a whole lot of Europe's data goes through cables passing through a choke point in the Middle East, which, again, no need, I believe, to recap.

Josh Jidza wrote about those cables and what Europeans might be able to do about them in The Verge the other day.

Josh, thanks for coming on the program.

So tell me about Europe's connectivity challenges with Asia going through the Red Sea.

Sounds not great.

Sorry, like literally cuts to the cables?

It's obviously not new that that's a volatile part of the world.

The Europeans, I imagine, have been working on plan B, if you will, for a while.

My favorite line in this whole piece is this guy who says, the problem is icebergs.

I mean, it's a hostile environment, shall we say, up there.

Icebergs aside, this is not a cheap proposition, I imagine, right?