In article ,
(John Schilling) wrote:

If they don't have a backup carrier-pigeon network, it's
because they are confident that they have alternate methods that are
even more robust in the face of all the usual US countermeasures.

....or they figure they're so screwed in the event of actual war that
they don't bother...

--
cirby at cfl.rr.com

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Slam on brakes accordingly.