My thoughts:
1. If an infrastructure attack was to be prosecuted, how many people would it take to cause significant disruption on a very wide scale?
Clearly, with an open border the available manpower ability to disperse around the country has no obstacle.
2. Re #1, in a post-9/11 era, is there adequate public information available to facilitate such planning?
Even in the lack of such information, it wouldn't take much effort to map major power hubs.
3. Are such antagonists able to communicate to facilitate required coordination?
The antifa/blm riots proved that it was possible to both communicate and evade law enforcement detection. As well, the ongoing matter of leftist violence against pregnancy centers - as well as the 1/6 bombs - remain unresolved.
4. My problem: WHY would such antagonists openly attack minor infrastructure when such attacks would surely attract government attention and corresponding surveillance?
5. Are such attacks designed to redirect resources and, if so, what is the purpose of the distraction?
Such a distraction would serve many purposes, but the history of such attacks spans such a length of time that the nature of such a plot is unlikely.
6. Why would government FINALLY comment on an ongoing domestic terrorism investigation (vs. the mantra, "We don't comment on active investigations") by implicating 'domestic extremists'?
We all know the score here as well: When the government cites 'domestic extremists' they mean the right, NOT the left.
7. The details of such attacks (if we are to believe Homeland Security, "In recent attacks, criminal actors bypassed security fences by cutting the fence links, lighting nearby fires, shooting equipment from a distance or throwing objects over the fence and on to equipment," read the memo.') highlight 2 possibilities: A. Probing, B. Random efforts to cause minor - rather than major - damage.
8. Why did it take YEARS for these clearly-communicating, coordinated plot efforts to figure out that a small caliber rifle can take out power to a community?
Photos of the NC damage appear to be no larger caliber than 30-30.
Finally, my deepest thoughts:
9. Why do the pattern of damage attacks appear to keep focus on the vulnerability of the power grid, highlighting what my memory suggests is the first nationwide coverage of such attacks in NC without causing region-wide damage?
The pattern almost suggests an effort to hold utilities and the government accountable for hardening our grid infrastructure.
IMHO, the pattern of attacks do not fit the profile of terrorism, but the NC incident is certainly an escalation (if one believes it is part of the ongoing series of seemingly-random incidents spanning a number of years).
Thoughts?
Prepper ping
No Russian would ever do such a thing.
Probably around 20 Russians living in the US had a relative killed by US weapons given to Ukraine.
Some of the illegals coming across - the ones who don’t want to get ‘caught (to secure documentation) or aren’t carrying backpacks filled with fentanyl ... move like trained military units. It looks like dry runs testing the stupidity of our ‘intelligence’ goons.
Impossible to harden against rifle shots. Too many places attached to utility poles... let alone substations.
The beeezzzzzzs!
