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I do remember some of the proposed attacks.
The most of scary one was if the terrorists have a decent number of people is to drive around and destroy transformers at electricity substations.
A lot of those locations are unmanned and have minimal security.
The risk is that there just aren’t that many spare transformers available globally above a certain size and they take months to build.
If you take out enough of them fast enough, you can cripple any modern energy-dependent economy.
This tactic very nearly worked for Russia in Ukraine.
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I do remember some of the proposed attacks.
The most of scary one was if the terrorists have a decent number of people is to drive around and destroy transformers at electricity substations.
A lot of those locations are unmanned and have minimal security.
The risk is that there just aren’t that many spare transformers available globally above a certain size and they take months to build.
If you take out enough of them fast enough, you can cripple any modern energy-dependent economy.
This tactic very nearly worked for Russia in Ukraine.