What is more lethal? An EMP or a cyberattack? The answer might surprise you and the possibilities are terrifying.
Considering current events and the way things are unfolding, I wanted to do a video on power outages. Why? Because that is what you can expect to see when your enemy is ramping up for an attack. As you can see, we teach wartime tactics to citizens for civil defense purposes.
Pres Play - Cyberattack VS EMP
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The EMP
First off, if you don't know what an EMP is, I kindly suggest you look it up. This video is going to focus on tactics, not definitions. (In conjunction with that, don't expect me to explain what a cyberattack is either.) Thank you for understanding.
That being said, in 2001, the pentagon did a study on what would happen if our country were to experience an EMP. As a result, they determined that within 1 year's time we would have 90% casualties.
Note: 90% casualties would mean that out of 1 million people, 900,000 would have died! That's a heck of a lot scarier than COVID.
Why were the death rates so high?
Consider this, we've never had a point in history where technological advances have been so far. As a society, we depend upon electricity for basic functions and resources on everything.
To clarify, common knowledge on how to grow your own food, build your own fire and draw your own water without power is gone!
Furthermore, without ready access to water for sanitation, sickness is going to skyrocket! You think COVID is scary? Just wait until the plague sets in.
Note: This is actually a scenario that is covered in our Trauma Care book which teaches you how to react to common wartime casualties and keep people alive until you can get professional help.
The Double Edged Sword
The problem with an EMP, is that it is non-discriminatory. Which means that it is going to hit everything regardless of who owns it. This is a major con for anyone thinking to implement an EMP as a tactical element of warfare.
Not to mention that they're going to want the power back on relatively quickly once they've taken over. No one is going to want to clean up after the mess an EMP is gonna leave.
However, there is an even bigger reason than that of why it is unlikely that an opposing force would use an EMP. Which goes alongside the same reason why a cyberattack is indeed more deadly.
A Cyberattack
“In the underworld, reality itself has elastic properties and is capable of being stretched into different definitions
of the truth.”
Roderick Vincent // The Cause
Have you ever seen Die Hard 4 with the Fire Sale? A cyberattack can be very much the same thing.
When you have a cyberattack, you can control what gets shut down and what stays online. You can also alter data and change information. For example, I don't know, bank accounts maybe... or how about the stock market? They are just digits on a screen.
You can also prevent certain phones from making calls, but you can still keep their location feature on to track people with.
Example, a militia group tries to organize and gather so that they can fight back. The enemy sees a large grouping of phones in the same place from people that they have already picked out as "terrorists." All it would take is one good drone strike and boom! All gone, no resources lost.
The options are limitless. Someone could even shut down an oil pipeline if they wanted to... oh, wait!
Or they could turn off power during the middle of a snow storm in Texas.... oh, wait!
They could even rig an election to make it look like one person won, when they didn't.... oh, wait!
It Gets Worse!
Even though an EMP is bad news, that's the only news you'll ever get because the grid is down. So you'll have the chance to unite, pick yourself up and start working together.
However, if you get hit with a cyberattack, you'll suddenly find yourself facing an even scarier enemy. Misinformation, disinformation and propaganda. Nothing fights a war for you better than people bickering amongst themselves.
Is it really that unlikely for someone to seek to divide our country? No one would ever try to pit the unvaccinated against the vaccinated, the mask wearers against the non-mask wearers. Or even the black against the white. Wait a minute....
No one would ever infiltrate our schools to teach our children to obey without question, that white people are racists or even that America's founding was done by slave owners.... Hmm, this is starting to sound a bit familiar.
The Sickening Finale, yes, it gets even worse
If you'll remember, computers run everything. To include our military's systems. Consequently, there is a more lethal aspect of a cyberattack that most people don't know about.
Example of a Possible cyber attack scenario
Before I go into that, let me first explain the lethality of a cyberattack with a scenario.
Let's say that the power gets shut off nationwide for about, I don't know... 3 1/2 days. Then the electricity comes back on with announcements on the emergency broadcast systems claiming that a previously warned of terrorist group (like Trump supporters or white racists) have attacked several cities. When in reality, it was a bunch of Islamist extremists that were flown in recently from, let's say Afghanistan.
Following that, the media floods the internet, tv and news stations with information on UN support by Chinese troops to help keep the peace.
The local mayor they just shot? Don't worry, he was a terrorist. Go inside your home, we'll keep you "safe."
Now you've got half the country divided against the other half because everything is so convoluted.
Military's BFT System
The military uses a system (or one like it)called the BFT, or Blue Force Tracking which was the original design to use GPS as an aid in conducting operations.
The BFT basically tells the military where their friendlies are. If you've been hit with a cyberattack, your enemy can now change the location of your enemies and your friends on that screen.
This means that they can easily pit platoon against platoon thinking that they've got enemy contact when in reality, they are shooting at themselves.
If done right, the enemy could have wiped out up to 1/2 of our fighting force and they didn't even step across the border.
Here's what you do
I hope that you can see by now that our country has already begun the early stages of a cyberattack. Furthermore, its going to get a lot worse. The best thing that you could do is prepare for war, because brother, you're in one!
Follow up Note:
Case and point, check out what the state has done now:
According to the blaze, the The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) have done this with with the following excuse:
Phil Shiver // The Blaze
I love Die Hard 4. Have often thought that was a very possible scenario anywhere! I think an EMP is pretty unlikely for the exact reason you mentioned. The globalists need their tech to stay in control. The other-oh my! People tend to believe so much on the main-stream news and so many have their smart phones in hand 24/7.
We shall see! It makes more sense though doesn’t it? Thank you for your comment. Please share this post with your friends.
Actually, an EMP would be more deadly, as you know troops train exclusively with BFT, so if fried, they do not know how to fight well. And EMP would take many years to recover from. All the fried electronics would have to be replaced and we would be exposed to foreign invasion while electronically blinded. An initial EMP blast would take out all nuclear power plants, to point of melt down; many, if not all, hydro electric plants would be destroyed; wind power would be destroyed because of run away rotors. I’d say about 99.99% of all cars would be rendered KIA, due to the number of computers in them. All radios would be wiped out, except for older tube type receivers and transmitters. Those who did not have a root cellar with stockpiled solar devices, cells, and controllers, would loose their refrigerated and frozen food supplies. Now, with all of that being said, a hack can be undone, by unplugging the equipment from the net and dealing with things. Plus, encrypted data can be undone, by reloading data from a back up data source, if you were smart enough to have it. How do I know of these things? I am an electronics tech with a AS in electronic engineering, an electrician, and a military trained mechanic for the M1 and M2/M3, with training on EMP damage to the vehicles. Actually, if I was our enemies, I would EMP over America 3 times within a year, randomly, and wait 1.5 to 2 years after that to invade. The invaders would be welcomed by the survivors and few bullets fired.
Granted an EMP is dangerous and all of your points are spot on. However, we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one. Mis-information, controlling the populace through technology and psychological warfare is, in my opinion, more dangerous. That being said, the fact of the matter is to be prepared for either one of those things. For while I can make predictions all day long of what the enemy may do, I fully admit that I cannot predict the future. So it would be wise to prepare for a power outage of some sort. We can both agree that technology is our greatest weakness and at least 90% of the population is at risk of not surviving should the power get cut, and it will at some point happen. We’re sitting ducks here. Thank you for your comment and for adding to the discussion. I think it is wise to warn others of the dangers for both.
I did not mean to say one was any less harmful than the other, but that a pulse is very less likely to be mitigated, as with a cyber attack it can be, but with some loss of time and data. I know of many cyber attacks that can occur and the resulting damages: rapid switching on/off of electricity and shutting off power to a nuke plant with an active core are a couple, and like what someone caught by chance a hacker messing with a water plant and the chemical mixtures of its output. And I totally agree that there is no way to predict when and where either event might or will even happen, but with some level of being prepared preppers can help themselves. Small faraday cages (ie. making wooden boxes covered in metal/aluminum and seams covered with metal duct tape or large ammo cans) or placing items within a protected root cellar could protect sensitive items from a pulse. To me, we are more likely to experience a pulse prior to a physical land attack and cybers are meant to harass a group or nation’s people. BTW, I also worked with the military system and their encryption protection. It is very unlikely most system could be hacked, unless a system was captured. From all I have seen and experienced, everything military has an encryption key and a controllable IP address, that can be turned off and on at will.
We shall see what happens.