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procon

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5. Down goes the electrical grid and down goes everything.

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Mon Jul 23, 2018, 10:03 PM

Jul 2018

Communications systems will be very limited or gone entirely. Transportation, infrastructure, public services, water and sewage, gas, all out.

Then what? Can Russia cause a nationwide electrical overload that would cripple the whole country for weeks or months?

Then what? Can Russia just invade while everything is down and no one is the wiser until new flags appear over government buildings?

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DHS: Russian hackers got into control rooms of US utilities [View all] steve2470 Jul 2018 OP

Yup, Sherman A1 Jul 2018 #1

I just finished posting this in the Economy Forum, and I thought it deserved to be in LBN. mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2018 #2

Ted Koppel wrote a book on this topic... Lights Out... PoliticAverse Jul 2018 #3

Well let's see, they shut down the power grid and Trump declares marshal law ..hmm just sayin. YOHABLO Jul 2018 #4

Worse... woundedkarma Jul 2018 #6

Down goes the electrical grid and down goes everything. procon Jul 2018 #5

They won't invade at that point BamaRefugee Jul 2018 #8

Does a power outage shut down the US military? hughee99 Jul 2018 #11

So, would a carefully targeted series of blackouts... Whiskeytide Jul 2018 #7

The whole idea of disrupting the elecdtrig grid seems , to me anyway, so freakin simple. pangaia Jul 2018 #9

"Dark Ages" Roland99 Jul 2018 #10

Yep, my thoughts too Raastan Jul 2018 #12

KnR Hekate Jul 2018 #13

Wow. This is worse than when they were Communists. jalan48 Jul 2018 #14

They were pretty much CINOs after Lenin and Trotsky. Marcuse Jul 2018 #16

Both Coats and Rosenstein have said our digital infrastructure is under attack. Richard Clark Amaryllis Jul 2018 #15

And DT allowed it to happen. LiberalFighter Jul 2018 #17