Comment by jillesvangurp
2 days ago
Of course the Ukrainians are now much less dependent on central power generations out of necessity. It turns out that all those big power plants and electricity distribution centers make for nice drone targets. The Russians did far more damage with that than with their satellite hackery. Those 5800 wind turbines came back online and are mostly still operational.
The lesson here is that distributed power is a good thing in war time scenarios but you might want to pay attention to digital security. Central power generation becomes a tempting target.
Now the good news with Chinese stuff is that a war is not imminent and we have the benefit of hindsight and can do something about that.
> Now the good news with Chinese stuff is that a war is not imminent and we have the benefit of hindsight and can do something about that.
We are and we have been at war with China (and Russia and North Korea, fwiw) for many years at this point. The ongoing cyberwarfare from either country is more than enough to warrant this label, the problem is we were and are governed by chickens who refuse to accept the reality we are living in and still think that kowtowing to China's every demand will save our economies.