Iranian retaliation could come in the form of cyber/infrastructure attacks

[Ex Lurker]

Power grid, internet backbone, air traffic control, even the financial system. If the upper midwest loses power for a week in mid winter it would be a crisis situation for millions. If they did it through proxies there would be just enough deniability even though everybody knew they were behind it.

[Renew Deal]

1. Charge your phone

And unplug your router. Someone will come by when it's over.

[napi21]

2. Depends on who's helping them. If China joins the fight, you're right. They'd hit our grid.

I don't know this for sure, but I haven't heard that Iran was great with the net.

[Ex Lurker]

3. They could farm it out to the North Koreans

Since Kim haz given up on Trump.

[dchill]

4. Not Trump's problem.

[duforsure]

5. With the help of putin hackers

They could shut down many area's of our infrastructure crippling us.

[napi21]

7. I don't think people realize jusr what it means to "shut down the grid"! I adnit I didnt realze it

either. I recently read a book that was fiction for sure, but it was about a problem with the electric grid that serves Manhattan. There were a lot of other flukes that occurred at the same time, but the results were terrifying! Yes I know it was fiction, but the story makes you really think about what COULKD HAPPEN! We all know what things are like when our electricity goes out for a few hours. NOTHING in our hoe works! No coffee, no cooking, no heat or air, no lights, no computer, no TV. But if it's the grid that cant recover for a while, we're also talking no gas pumps, hospitals only have so many hours they can function on their emergency generators, same with grocery stores, * every other business you look to for sustenance.

I just hope those in charge of our grids and their emergency plans are good enough that none of us have to find out how bad things could get!

[Hortensis]

6. Yup. Given that this and other disasters are always

possibilities, it's always made sense to maintain a sustainable home. I've read that people in the rural upper west average our most resilient because bad storms, losing power, climate that can kill, and distance from services/help mean being on their own for a while isn't that unusual.

If the entire nation kept even 1 week's supplies, which we do not average, we'd be far more resilient to attacks on our life structures. As it is, all potential enemies know our appallingly extreme vulnerability.