Opinion - China has an off-switch for America, and we aren't ready to deal with it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Imagine waking up tomorrow and your phone has no signal. Your smart home isn’t working. Your Ring camera is offline. You get in your car, but your GPS won’t route. Worse, every traffic light in town is out. Intersections are a mess of blaring horns and confusion. Sirens echo in the distance. You drive to an ATM, hoping to grab some cash. The screen flickers, then goes black. It’s not just your neighborhood. It’s not just your state. The entire nation has gone dark.

This scenario is digital darkness, caused by China’s “off-switch” for America. It is the penultimate step in China’s strategy to defeat America before gunning for global control.

So-called “assassin’s maces” play a central role in China’s plan to become the world’s sole superpower by 2049. Of the many known assassin’s maces, four demand immediate attention:

1) Tactical Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Weapons: China develops tactical EMP weapons that can disable entire regions by targeting civilian infrastructure America relies on to function. These compact pulse generators can hover above unprotected data centers, destroying electronics inside with pinpoint electromagnetic blasts. Several dozen well-coordinated EMP strikes could wipe out cloud infrastructure, disrupting America’s power, transportation, communications and financial systems nationwide.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-china-off-switch-america-183000192.html

[Silent Type]

1. Yeah, but we have trump and Elooon to protect our security. Pretty sure I need a sarcasm thingie.

[Abolishinist]

2. This type of threat has bothered me for a number of years.

At least I now sleep better at night knowing the current administration is... whoops, my wrong.

Every time I've thought I've had an original thought I find out otherwise, so here's another one... the ability to focus an electronic/whatever signal directly at one person, providing them intense pain. In order to turn it off, they need to do your bidding. Many problems immediately solved if my weapon is in the right hands.

[stillcool]

3. so many ways to take me out

not even counting the regular ones.

[Ponietz]

4. We don't know the cause for power failures on the ships in Baltimore and New York

FAA communications failures are also unexplained.

[cachukis]

5. One of my good friends, worked up to Captain, related

his fear going into combat at a pom pom, in Nam, explained his Captain told him to just make believe he was already dead.
Gregory Peck, in taking command in 12 O'clock High, said the same.
We will manage.

[usonian]

6. Expect it. Plan on it because it's part of a plan.

You don't savage cyber defense and military defense without begging for an attack, "foreign or domestic".

When "DEI" is your enemy, all the others, "foreign or domestic" are ready to spring.

When, not it, it comes, it will be the excuse to completely take over and hand control to Putin (as it that's all that Putin demands for his blackmail).

Exposing the plan prepares people to stop it once it's in motion.

And find your old CB radio gear if you want to talk to folks nearby.

Understand the coup plan. Expose it, Explain it and encourage everyone to do the right and appropriate thing to stop it
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