"This is a massive attack on a large scale to paralyze the TGV network," SNCF told Agence France-Presse (AFP), adding that many routes will have to be canceled and the situation would last "at least all weekend while repairs are conducted."[..] adding that the attacks affected its Atlantic, northern and eastern lines. The southeastern line was not affected as "a malicious act was foiled."

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/07/26/france-s-high-speed-trains-struck-by-malicious-acts_6699471_7.html

@burger_jaap

It maybe a wake-up call to take Russian spionage in critical infrastructure seriously.
But I fear they still won’t realise the vulnaribility and the danger of severe sabotage.

@burger_jaap Congratulations again to the olympic committee for accepting Russian athletes, it's going really well I see

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/112852025502479198

@ljs @burger_jaap
The world pretty much figured out that boycotts only hurt the athletes from observing the 1980 and 1984 US/USSR Olympic mutual boycotts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics_boycott

@dougmerritt @burger_jaap that's countries explicitly boycotting, not banning athletes from a regime engaged in an ongoing illegal war?

@ljs @burger_jaap
I don't see that such distinctions matter; it's still about the side effect of ruining the lives of athletes who are innocents in the issue at hand.

(It is common for athletes to have only one shot at the Olympics, so if one looks into it, "ruining their lives" isn't even a slight exaggeration.)

Symbolic actions that punish innocent parties far more than they punish the actual guilty parties are always misguided. Sometimes we have history to prove the point.

@ljs @burger_jaap
Also, reconsidering your original point, I'm confused, since it would seem no one knows that Russia had anything to do with it in any case -- not that it changes my counter-point if it turns out that it *was* Russia.

And banning Russian athletes wouldn't prevent such terrorism no matter who did it.

@dougmerritt @burger_jaap you don't think sanctions and travel bans ruin the life of innocent Russians?

Everything's a trade-off, in war innocents suffer.

Russia will use the olympics for international prestige and to appear as if they aren't a rogue state, and weaken resolve against them.

You do realise who your new president is almost certain to be right? You think normalisation of any kind helps?

It's a slippery slope too.

I am not a fan of the olympics, their fucking awful committee, their history on human rights, the fact it's always used for political reasons, etc. anyway. But I suppose by the by.