Then, one EMP weapon deployed by China will destroy America’s “Breadbasket.” Then America will starve without lifting a trigger finger. I hope Trump’s Space Force will protect us from that after Beijing Joe cuts their funding.
What a depressing bit of doom porn in the fashion of these snowflake, doomsday times. First of all, last I heard crops grow without electricity and a lot of crops would do well enough to still feed Americans and farmers would find a way to both plant in the spring and harvest in the fall.
I grew up in Montana but my father was a farmer's son from eastern North Dakota and all of my farmer relatives in North Dakota and my rancher friends in Montana do not throw out anything that may be useful or needed later on. Somewhere on all of those rural farms there millions of old tractors and harvesting/planing equipment that they know how to fix in the event their modern equipment gets fried by an EMP.
To further illustrate my point, in my hometown in Montana a close family friend had a hobby of restoring old farm tractors and equipment. In the detached garage in his backyard he had a collection of milling machines from the 1920s that he used to make his own replacement parts back in 1983. He had hired me to do some of the more backbreaking yard work like pulling tree stumps that is best left to the indestructible teenager. When I was getting yard tools out of his garage I saw five massive behemoth metal machines that did not belong in the typical garage. When I asked him what they were. When he told me that they were milling machines and that he used them for making replacement parts that were no longer available like pistons and gears for old tractors I was amazed. When he went on to say that they were so massive because they were from the turn of the century I was stunned. Being a child of disposable electronics and cars I asked him how they still worked. He said that they were build so well that they would run nearly forever and that all he had to do was replace the electric motors. He was but one of many of that type in my hometown. Many of my childhood friends took shop in high school and went into trades in like welding, auto mechanics, and engineering after a stint in the military. Two of my close personal friends enlisted in the Navy and served on nuclear subs as nuclear propulsion plant technicians and went on to get degrees in nuclear engineering. I would like to see the federal government try to subjugate and starve my people.
Also, even if food production falls precipitously the harvest will still be enough to feed Americans and the resulting decline of agricultural exports to the rest of the world will cause starvation worldwide and in China. Rural Americans are armed to the death and will not allow themselves to be starved while an uncaring government exports food while they eat grass and bark like the Irish in the Potato Famine of the 1840s.
Additionally, any unclear EMP attack by a foreign power will be an act of war that no government can passively accept and survive the wrath of American citizens. A people who have been attacked and then see hard times affect their loved ones in a major way will not be passive. Even the loathsome leftist Democrats would have to respond by methodically using the military to grind China down. If they do not fight they will not be free to travel out of the military fortress compounds necessary to protect them from wrathful American citizens. Even then that would only protect them for a month or two at most. It would be open season on the traitorous government reptiles.
There are far more people like me who grew up in the country and then moved to the city than the other way around. If the US military thought the Viet Cong were everywhere or that inbred muslim insurgents are an intractable problem will be in for a rude awakening it an American insurgency occurs.
The. Ruling. Class. Will. Not. Be. Safe. Anywhere.
I think this will be a drone conflict. Millions of them, small, cheap, armed with small explosives and designed to seek and take out one person. Made in China where we cannot get at the factories. That is just one scenario. There are a lot of ways drones can be used to disrupt an insurgency. I have to say, I am not having a good feeling about our chances.
EMP threat is highly exaggerated.