I don’t read r/conservative much but what I’ve seen is they keep banning actual conservatives because they correctly call out what Trump is doing on things where it’s not about left and right but right and wrong.
Some people are saying that it could be coincidental. OP asks why would the two accounts who post so regularly just happen to both stop at the same time on that day.
So, water and power infrastructure use shitty old industrial control systems, are most if not all are on the Internet, run at a financial deficit, and are generally not well maintained. They don’t have the time, funding, manpower or knowledge to decrease their attack surface nor to operate manually rather than via the junk ICS they’re using.
They (volt typhoon) practiced in mennasotas infrastructure and iirc sat in there 300 days and they had full control. They’re using several novel attack vectors, have as of August, built a presence in police, fire, hospital, electric, power, and gas infrastructure.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-badbox-20-android-malware-infects-millions-of-consumer-devices/
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa24-038a
https://cybersecuritynews.com/amazon-catches-north-korean-it-worker/
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa25-343a
The gun is loaded. They’re still working for more complete control. The timeline is 2027ish, or whenever China attacks Taiwan and the US steps up.
The attack is expected to be everywhere at once, that way neighboring towns won’t be able to give aid because emergency services will be overwhelmed. Mutual aid agreements will fall apart.
Did you know that hospitals stop functioning entirely when water is cut for 8h? A hospital COULD function with water trucks, but not in the case of concurrent attacks.
CISA lost 1000 of it 3300 staff, and they were overtaxed before.
It’s bad. Get a lifestraw or Sawyer mini.
I’ve not even touched on salt typhoons pwnage of telecom and network infrastructure.
Get a Meshtastic radio and a couple handhelds. Baofeng makes very approachable stuff.
The US military is self sufficient, but neither they nor the nat’l guard are equipped to help with this kind of attack.
I can’t really share much more right now but there are plenty of reputable sources available online for all this. Just don’t start googling before bed. Do yourself a favor.
Would this be dangerous for China to do? It IS a war crime to deprive most of a nation of water.
But would China actually be in real danger, or would the UN just yell at them and do nothing?? Or would there be a war against China?
That’s a real good question, one to which I don’t have an answer.
It seems to me like there would be a great deal of risk for them to do that.
But then, why are they making so much effort to position themselves to shut off water, power, and gas?
Maybe they’ll use it as a prelude to an outright attack? It’s hard to know for sure. This seems like at least part of their motivation: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/international-relations/xi-and-putin-s-taiwan-invasion-files-leaked-full-scale-2027-plan-confirmed/vi-AA1SB2cc
But surely they have some secrets.
That does make me wonder what China’s outcome of that would be. At this point, the US has alienated so many allies, I have to wonder if we’d still have their full backing or if it would be conditional on tariffs.
Edit: Just saw this in a chat: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3337652/chinese-military-simulated-battles-near-mexico-cuba-and-taiwan-cctv-report-shows
The US is in a precarious international situation here
Some countries would side with the US, and some would oppose China but not side with the US
I feel you’re 100% correct about this. The most concerning part is how fluid the situation looks to be. Too much uncertainty.