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Russia threatens power grids if Biden moves in Ukraine
Washington Examiner ^

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.


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PREPPERS should notice that 90% dead statistic.
1 posted on 02/03/2022 6:03:30 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

I would strongly suggest reading the books “ONE SECOND AFTER”, “ONE YEAR AFTER” and “THE FINAL DAY” by William R Forstchen. Entertaining, eye opening and thought provoking all in one.


2 posted on 02/03/2022 6:07:26 PM PST by No name given
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To: TigerClaws
Peter Vincent Pry, the executive director of the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security

The EMP crowd is another group of swamp dwellers looking for a huge handout at taxpayer expense and this kind of over-the-top fearmongering is the tool they are using to extract the payola from the treasury.

A large scale nuclear attack will shut down a lot of the US economy, but that is because it is a large scale nuclear attack and everyone knows our response to that sort of thing would start while the missiles are still incoming, if the counterstrike isn't launched before the other guys missiles have left the ground.

3 posted on 02/03/2022 6:08:39 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: TigerClaws

An EMP attack by Russia will not happen.

It would kill many millions in the USA due to Grid Failure. It would get a thermonuclear response and both sides lose lose lose. When a nation such as Russia or the USA let fly with nukes, it all goes to hell. Neither nation would survive as a functioning society.


4 posted on 02/03/2022 6:09:06 PM PST by cpdiii (CANE CUTTER-DECKHAND-ROUGHNECK-OILFIELD CONSULTANT-GEOLOGIST-PILOT-PHARMACIST )
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To: TigerClaws
The nation’s leading expert on protecting the electric grid from attack

Peter Pry is a deep state poseur looking for a payday.

5 posted on 02/03/2022 6:09:40 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: TigerClaws

A large number of Russians have illegally crossed our southern border.


6 posted on 02/03/2022 6:09:53 PM PST by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes War Finds YOU!)
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To: TigerClaws

Fauxy can’t help?


7 posted on 02/03/2022 6:11:30 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: TigerClaws
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.

Nuclear EMP and Cyber warfare are two very different things. One if you believe the widely refuted claims would destroy physical infrastructure. The other is all about infiltrating computer systems.

8 posted on 02/03/2022 6:12:38 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: TigerClaws

Democrats don’t care about the energy sector, its the sector destroying mother earth from their warped perspective.

They’ll wait for the dilithium crystals to show up by science or magic.

When the non polluting form of energy appears we’ll be safe from fossil fuel poison.(sarcasm)


9 posted on 02/03/2022 6:19:24 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: TigerClaws

“Pry warned that up to 90% of the U.S. population could die during a year without power.”

Any chance we get to pick WHICH 90%?


10 posted on 02/03/2022 6:19:38 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: AndyJackson

A couple teams of backwoods militants (FBI strike teams) could do it in one night. No need for EMPs.


11 posted on 02/03/2022 6:20:50 PM PST by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: No name given

SHTF and it won’t be like in the movies.


12 posted on 02/03/2022 6:23:04 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: GranTorino

Or some trespassers from the southern border?


13 posted on 02/03/2022 6:24:29 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: TigerClaws

We should butt out of the Ukraine. Period.


14 posted on 02/03/2022 6:24:56 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: TigerClaws

As I have said, we can not have civilization without energy because everything is or is the result of energy.

!,000 years ago, energy depended upon man’s physical strength. How fast he could walk, how far he could run. how many berries he could pick or how many animals or fish he could catch.

But the bottom line was energy.

Later came the donkey and the horse and oxen, so he could move faster and farther and carry a larger load.

The steam engine, the automobile and the airplane enabled man to magnify his energy by a thousand fold.

Our government is reducing our access to energy, only a little now but a much greater reduction is planned.

We need to stop this plan before our standard of living is damaged beyond our comfort level.

The danger of an EMP attack is real and it should remind us of the dangers of relying on any single source of energy. As it is, we are too dependent on electricity delivered by a power grid.

Remember when our grandparents warned us “Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.” Our investment counselors give us the same advice in different words. Why should be be less careful with our lives?


15 posted on 02/03/2022 6:25:58 PM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the federal government can not make worse.)
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To: old curmudgeon

I’m just going to rely on my Tesla to save me...


16 posted on 02/03/2022 6:29:33 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: AndyJackson

They don’t have to use nukes you can bet they probably already hacked into the grid and are just waiting to shut it down.


17 posted on 02/03/2022 6:34:52 PM PST by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: cpdiii

Ironically, we are barely a functioning society now.


18 posted on 02/03/2022 6:34:59 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ivermectin should be available for sale over the counter in the United States of America)
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To: cpdiii

That is a price the NeoCons & most Republican Congress Critters are willing to pay, to stick it to Russia.


19 posted on 02/03/2022 6:35:23 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: TigerClaws

Great.

World War IV.

But no more mean tweets!


20 posted on 02/03/2022 6:39:58 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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