[user104658]

I presume it's to disrupt the connections between the US and Europe specifically? Would it actually cut all access though? Couldn't you bounce round the other way... Like go through a proxy in mainland Europe, then maybe India, South East Asia, NZ, then across to the west coast of the US or Southern American countries THEN the US if necessary? I mean it would slow you down a lot but you'd still get a connection.


Or is the US's global access wholly reliant on cables in the Atlantic? If so then this seems like it must be more about the US / Russia than the UK. Although it would cause some pretty major global problems as a large number of nameservers are US based I think.