No, it won’t go completely dark.

You can’t just take out a piece of the internet and not have shit go haywire for a bit. They talked about this during the net neutrality hearings.

It’ll look akin to a DDoS attack.

But while it’s down, certain things will be modified, and throttled.

This may be propagandized in the west as a “cyber attack” by Russia, or perhaps even another unfriendly —as to further provoke a global conflict.

China caught a cold. Russia will catch sleep paralysis.

Fiber optic cable DREAM passes through 7 countries— The Diverse Route for European and Asian Markets (DREAM) fiber optic cable, 5,400 miles long, is the biggest Internet traffic highway between Europe and Asia. The route goes through China, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Slovakia. At the same time, no more than 15 percent of Europe-Asia traffic passes the territory of Russia: Currently underwater cabling is more popular than terrestrial.