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[Trevor]

I still consider cyberwarfare to be our biggest weakness. Shutting down one pipeline caused havoc. Imagine what thousands of hidden Chinese back doors could do, combined with anti-satellite weapons to cripple both our communications and production. It'd take us months to get everything fully operational again.

I'm even willing to go a bit further and suggest cyberwarfare could be the strategic bombing of the 21st century. China has very little ability to bomb us, at least with conventional weapons, and their bombers would be torn apart long before they arrived. However, they've got a strong edge when it comes to hacking capabilities. It would even do more damage; taking out a few oil refineries will do far more than bombing a neighborhood, or even a naval base. When it comes to the United States, China is far too big to bomb into submission with conventional weapons. (Even with nukes, bombing 1.4 billion people is a huge task)

Cyberwarfare doesn't require large numbers of aircraft and naval assets and can do just as much damage. China's stolen an enormous amount of data from us and I'd bet any attack they launch would begin with a mass cyber attack before or during an assault on our carriers.

[Navigator]

Before going there, he was repeatedly warned by his embassies senior officers that American police were NOT British police, and that he should never interact with them in that way.

He was not to talk to fellow officers at all? What does this mean? How are flatfeet and bobbies different?

He was an Army officer and could obviously talk to other military personnel. What he was warned about is to not talk to American police like he would talk to British "bobbies". He was told to NEVER argue or even try to explain anything to an American police officer, but to just do what they told them to do and then call the embassy.

British police are not "in your face" the way American police typically are. They actually try to be helpful and respectful. Too often American police turn into bullies. American quotas and incentives for charging people with crimes are also "out of whack", as are prosecutors looking to make a name for themselves, or, conversely, letting people get away with things due to any number of political or payoff reasons.

[Navigator]

I still consider cyberwarfare to be our biggest weakness. Shutting down one pipeline caused havoc. Imagine what thousands of hidden Chinese back doors could do, combined with anti-satellite weapons to cripple both our communications and production. It'd take us months to get everything fully operational again.

I'm even willing to go a bit further and suggest cyberwarfare could be the strategic bombing of the 21st century. China has very little ability to bomb us, at least with conventional weapons, and their bombers would be torn apart long before they arrived. However, they've got a strong edge when it comes to hacking capabilities. It would even do more damage; taking out a few oil refineries will do far more than bombing a neighborhood, or even a naval base. When it comes to the United States, China is far too big to bomb into submission with conventional weapons. (Even with nukes, bombing 1.4 billion people is a huge task)

Cyberwarfare doesn't require large numbers of aircraft and naval assets and can do just as much damage. China's stolen an enormous amount of data from us and I'd bet any attack they launch would begin with a mass cyber attack before or during an assault on our carriers.

This is covered extensively (as well as what to do about it) in the book that I wrote.

[DaKardii]

I still consider cyberwarfare to be our biggest weakness. Shutting down one pipeline caused havoc. Imagine what thousands of hidden Chinese back doors could do, combined with anti-satellite weapons to cripple both our communications and production. It'd take us months to get everything fully operational again.

I'm even willing to go a bit further and suggest cyberwarfare could be the strategic bombing of the 21st century. China has very little ability to bomb us, at least with conventional weapons, and their bombers would be torn apart long before they arrived. However, they've got a strong edge when it comes to hacking capabilities. It would even do more damage; taking out a few oil refineries will do far more than bombing a neighborhood, or even a naval base. When it comes to the United States, China is far too big to bomb into submission with conventional weapons. (Even with nukes, bombing 1.4 billion people is a huge task)

Cyberwarfare doesn't require large numbers of aircraft and naval assets and can do just as much damage. China's stolen an enormous amount of data from us and I'd bet any attack they launch would begin with a mass cyber attack before or during an assault on our carriers.

What about the possibility of hacking nuclear power plants and causing Chernobyl reducia?

[John]

The plural of redux is reducia.

[DaKardii]

The plural of redux is reducia.

Noted, and edited. Thanks, John!

[Cool Breeze]

That may not seem diverse from a modern American perspective, but if one takes into account European history, it's in fact extremely diverse. And in a sense, it's actually more diverse than the modern US on the basis of language and religion.

You are dodging our main point.

[Guest]

That may not seem diverse from a modern American perspective, but if one takes into account European history, it's in fact extremely diverse. And in a sense, it's actually more diverse than the modern US on the basis of language and religion.

You are dodging our main point.

Austria-Hungary ended badly. So did the Ottoman Empire. Rome ended in a swamp of immigration. Multi-culturalism is a failure. One group must dominate. With America now running 60-40--at best--America has become ungovernable.

I think smaller is better. Ethno-states are the future. I just hope I end up in an ethno-state of my own kind; otherwise, I won't survive.

[Guest]

...China is far too big to bomb into submission with conventional weapons. (Even with nukes, bombing 1.4 billion people is a huge task)

I'm willing to try.

[guest]

Higgenbotham wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:49 pm
My more specific predictions would be:
There will be a major global financial panic and crisis. Supply chains will break, resulting in unavailability of critical raw materials and components. Global trade will begin to shut down. As it begins to become apparent that the supply chain linkages are permanently broken, the global interlinked financial markets will shut down and cease to exist. This will all happen very quickly. It will not take years from the initial panic.
The focus of governments will turn to controlling their panicked and hungry populations. Due to lack of availability of imported goods and adequate storage "sufficient to reconstitute" a system consistent with nation state government, this will prove to be too little too late and most government will devolve to the local level as populations lose faith in their national governments and the national governments lose the resources and ability to control their populations.
There will be no large scale nuclear war. Instead, the population will be culled through starvation, local strife (including settling of long-standing scores) and disease. Wave after wave of pandemics will sweep the world.
Similar to national economies and governments, centralized utilities will fail or become so decrepit as to be unsafe and unusable. All centralized utilities including the power grid will shut down permanently.
The initial worldwide kill rate during the first couple decades following the financial panic will exceed 90%. The global population will be in the range of a few tens of millions when the bottom is hit in two or three centuries. Similar to the last dark age, the world's largest cities will have a population on the order of 25,000 and a large town will be 1,000.
Life during the coming dark age will be similar to the last dark age but worse due to environmental damage and pollution.

This pretty much sums up what I have been expecting, with the exception of nuclear war, which I fully expect.

With California cancelling advanced math courses and bringing barbarism and pagan worship of Aztec gods back into the classroom (human sacrifice will be optional---for now), it is best to have the world implode. I just hope the liberals don't die too quickly. I want them to suffer for as long as possible. FOR. AS. LONG. AS. POSSIBLE.