The deep state has demanded war since before Trump got in office....it has been the Russians, Syria and now North Korea. Sorry, but I am just getting to the point I question everything being fed us. There has been an active 8 year deliberate defanging of the US by the globalist. They need a weak USA or they need us gone as a power....Without Clinton in power to continue the enemy within weakening of us, all that is left is massive destruction by war and they are walking us through that door.
“North Korea is not going to set off a nuke or emp against us.”
Oh good, I was worried about them. Now that we’re safe, I guess we can bring back our troops and disarm too!!!
I can’t predict what the nut in charge of NK might do, but forget North Korea or any other rogue state.
The problem with these EMP scare discussions is everyone gets wrapped up in guessing about things no one can know and misses the real point which is made in this article: catastrophic cascading systemic failures that can create great disruption, panic, and loss of life.
Everyone here should remember the Northeast Power Blackout of 2003:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
This was a textbook example of cascading failure. The event was triggered by what should have been a local power outage when power lines near Cleveland sagged on a hot day to touch “untrimmed foilage”, aka a tree. But because of other failures, the impact caused adjacent systems to trip out as they are designed to do, and by the time the cascade ended, over 80% of the generating capacity had been lost. You have to read the article above to appreciate the full impact - but in NYC alone, over 40,000 public employees had to be called in, and some affected manufacturers took a week to get back into production.
And this was a very small event that did very little permanent damage. The cost was incurred by the time without power until everything could be brought back up. Now imagine what might have happened if 10 or 20% of that generating equipment had been damaged and was out of commission for months.
This is just one example we all remember, but it illustrates the problem of how interwoven complex networks are vulnerable to cascade failures.
You don’t need an EMP weapon. A coordinated attack against the power grid could be launched with a few terrorist teams and a few sticks of dynamite on a hot day when the system is already stretched to the limit.
Or by a coordinated malware attack. And guess what, those power grids are managed by computerized SCADA systems running on...Windows PCs.