Posted on 02/03/2022 6:03:30 PM PST by TigerClaws
The nation’s leading expert on protecting the electric grid from attack urges governors to take the lead because the Biden administration won’t.
In a new alert, Peter Vincent Pry, the executive director of the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security, said concerns are growing that Russia, North Korea, and Iran are inching closer to testing an electromagnetic attack on the U.S. grid, or parts of it.
He noted the current crisis in Ukraine could spark a Russian attack, and he cited state media making the threat in the past.
“In April 2021, during the previous big crisis between Russia versus the U.S. and NATO over Ukraine, Moscow’s state-run TV broadcast to the world that: ‘War is inevitable…it will be a Cyber War,’” Pry said in his note, shown below.
He said Florida has been threatened “to deter the U.S. from helping Ukraine.”
And he said just last month, a member of the Russian Duma (the country's Congress) “proposed warning Washington that Moscow is serious about nuclear war over Ukraine — by launching a hypersonic warhead to detonate on or over the Nevada nuclear test area. A nuclear or non-nuclear EMP demonstration could blackout Nevada or the entire Western Grid.”
Former President Donald Trump took some steps to protect grids around the country, but they remain open to either an attack or a natural hit from a solar flare.
With Washington stalled, he suggested governors take the lead and even drafted a model executive order they could use.
“The White House and Congress have tried to protect the nation’s electric grids and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures through executive orders and legislation. But federal departments, agencies, and regulatory bodies, through incompetence or corruption or both, have all failed to make our nation safe from EMP and Cyber Warfare,” he said.
In a recent report on the impact of a power grid outage, Pry warned that up to 90% of the U.S. population could die during a year without power.
A good one.
But on that subject, I have a good friend and neighbor that bought a Toyota and it operates much on the same principle as a diesel locomotive. It has its own motor and generator, the brakes generate juice and so it never needs to be plugged into the grid.
I forgot to ask her how far it will go when the gas has run out.
Robert Gates: Joe Biden “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
Now I am very afraid Dimjo is making all the right moves to trigger World War 3.
“An EMP attack by Russia will not happen”
Don’t be so quick to dismiss this notion. If Russia believes they will be an decimated by NATO creep they may just use the old Saddam trick - scorched earth. We both become MUTUALLY destroyed. Don’t think it couldn’t happen.
I cringed when idiot Biden threatened a cyber attack on Russia as part of a sanctions package against them. I’d guess Russia has infinitely more experience in this area than we do and it opens the door for them to attack us.
China would survive.
Just sayin'.
Pay no attention to the Han behind the curtain...
This is second hand for what it’s worth. My brother in law told me a friend of his, age 19, just completed basic training, got his Ukraine orders today.
Yes, they do need to take note.
Some here think an EMP wouldn’t be too bad.
I think the 90% dead would be within 3-4 months; sooner if it took place during cold winter months.
I have stocked up on food, communications gear, solar panels, LiFePO4 batteries....etc
Have got enough for me and a few who would be depending on me...
Somethings coming, you can feel it :-/
These guys are quacks and the headline misleading, at best.
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Biden already gave Putin major infrastructure points to not attack, keep “off limits”. Putin no doubt has them first on his list with operative in place. He could easily have had them in place all along. Weakpoints, especially those related to the power grid, have undoubtedly been known for a long time to the entire planet.
Putin has his own list what is first priority to take out and may well be much larger than Biden’s list.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-putin-russian-cyberattacks-list-16-off-limits-criticism
Launch a Virus attack instead. Worked for China. They even got the President they wanted.
If the U.S. is crushed economically the rest of the world is dead whether we respond militarily or not. It would be all we could do to supply ourselves with food and exports of food (and other critical supplies) would stop dead in its tracks.
If we have to go into survival mode the rest of the world is on its own without the huge surpluses we have been selling and giving away for decades.
We would hurt but we would survive. How would Russia and China do?
Good for you.
Yep, something is coming. We can’t go on like this for much longer, and it’s for sure we won’t last much longer at this rate.
I think one possibility is the Globalists doing something horrific because they know people are on to them and they are no longer in control of the narrative and their whole plan is falling apart. They could do something drastic.
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With all food from the U.S cut off? All trade of any kind?
Oddly enough, perhaps this is best for the human species.
With respect to AI, our technological advancement has outpaced our moral advancement and wisdom. To prevent potential AI threats that whip out humanity, this may be best.
or wipe...
Russia won’t ......Putins got plenty of other ways far more advantageous to him then our power grid in this Ukraine debacle.
What about a nuclear burst over the United States traced/blamed on the North Koreans, who are in turn a proxy of Russia and China and receive technology and support from both? In that event, I doubt Biden launches on Russia and China, but we’ll be hit with an EMP and screwed.
Saving for future reference, godspeed
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