First, for reference, the mainstream publishes these vagaries about the mysterious events above the Earth:
Boeing-made satellite shatters in orbit, and nobody knows why: The Boeing-made Intelsat 33e satellite broke apart in orbit over the weekend. But company representatives don't yet know why. (LiveScience 10/23/2024)
Jim Stone at jimstonereloaded.com (archived here https://archive.is/sII25) has this to say about it:
America's Intelsat 33E destroyed by foreign powers
UPDATE: Rumor has it that moments after Intelsat 33e was destroyed, Russia sank the entire Ukranian black sea fleet, 22 vessels in total.
looking for details now but NOTHING is getting through the censors. Why would this be censored? Because if Intelsat 33E is gone, a U.S. response is going to be difficult, and more importantly, it is possible that the sinking cannot be "officially" confirmed with that satellite gone.
OK, for now, Intelsat33E is definitely gone. Waiting for real confirmation on the sinking of the Ukranian navy. With today's tech and serious countries like Russia as an opponent, ships are going to look stupid. Not viable, so the story sounds convincing but more proof needed.
UPDATE: The story is being morphed to imply Intelsat 33E was civilian. Reality: if it is not replaced, America can't attack Iran without "unacceptable" losses, Intelsat 33e was 100 percent military, the war machine needed it.
I am willing to bet however that there's a backup that will soon be active, they just need to shorten the life span of another satellite by telling it to use it's stability thrusters to reposition it where it can be used for war. So this story is not over. Let's see if the replacement suffers an untimely death also.
The US has not admitted it, but a debris field containing about 80 large pieces makes denying it stupid.
Intelsat 33E was the most important military communications satellite in the atlantic/african/European theater. Satellites don't just transform into debris fields and I think Trump's threat to strike Moscow probably had something to do with it.
Officially Intelsat 33E is a communications satellite that was deployed in 2017 for "government use". It had a throughput of about 50 gigabits per second which is 10X more than most communications satellites. And now the punch line:
Satellites are fragile, AND WITH THEM, WAR WITH ARABS IS EASY. Get my drift?
It's destruction was as big an act of war as sinking a battleship. That baby was not cheap. I wonder what the response from the Pentagon will be, when something that was definitely radar cloaked and probably Russian did it, with no way to prove it. Russia likely has assigned a toxic companion to ALL military satellites that are not theirs, how is that going to work out for a military that needs to suck data like a baby pacifier to win?
Things just got interesting.
Confirmed: Even the censors are admitting Intelsat 33E no longer exists. War with Russia is not going to be "plug and play".
You bring up an important point, along the lines of "the dog that didn't bark". So this was supposed to be a civilian geostationary satellite operating at up to (admitted) 60Gbps. That's a gold-star prime piece of equipment.
The plug gets pulled and what do we hear along the lines of disruption? Nothing at all, not a blip, at least as far as I've heard. Jim must be correct that this rig was 100% military. "They" could have pulled a few Ethernet cables and faked some outages, but they know that no one is paying attention.
And I agree that this has gone next-level. What I had thought what we would see from the RF would be use of a combat laser to blind a surveillance sat, something like this:
Nuclear-Powered Anti-Missile System? What Russia’s Combat Laser May Be Used For (Veterans Today 3/19/2018)
I think the message here was, "You're not going to have all your high-tech shit, and if we're going to dance we're gonna do it with rifles and artillery and toy drones just like Ukraine."
The RF could have done this any time, but we have to ask, "Why now?" There's no way of proving it, but I think this was the response to the nuking of Toropets a month ago.