The First Blow in the cyber war between NATO and Russia has struck

originally posted by: toysforadults
Who cares we spend what they spend on their entire yearly military budget in a week or 2.

So you realize what that means right?

It means they cant do # in the grand scheme of things. 1950s are over.

China is what you should be worried about but even that isnt much of a threat our economies are heavily reliant on one another

China can make their money back by slicing up the US. I wouldn't be so sure about this situation. Buckle in and put on your shiney hat.
US tech companies just lost over a trillion dollars in stock valuation. Someone is cashing out, big-time.

Explicitly cashing out of US investments. Check the loss percentages against non US tech companies. It's heavily one sided. That is not a good sign. (Especially since a sum exceeding our annual military budget is what moved.)

On top of that, both China and Japan are reducing their US exposure in their investment portfolios many foreign nations are foregoing any investment into the US Treasury. That news just broke too.

No matter how you slice it... Foreign powers are cashing out of the US. This might not be the time, but there is no false negative here. If we are about to go to war, this exact pattern will happen.

Think about this, we are exposed to long term Chinese Russian collusion. Chinese leader? No term limit. Russia? Putin forever. Their cabinets have long term planning far beyond the US, since we cycle cabinets every 4-8 years as well as Presidents. We are susceptible to political espionage. Russia - Putin and China - Xi Xinping? Not so much. Those guys don't move. Their cabinets don't have to go anywhere. If they made some grand scheme to cut the US down, we will get mowed and this isn't looking good.

a reply to: Gothmog

As stated in the Op. Sanctions don't seem to be working. NATO is not going to invade. Whats left to do?

It was in the news a while ago that the US was authorized to start hacking other countries harder.

NATO got together and stated hacking Russian military systems in the region.

Russia hits back.

Still no news I could find of what caused the blackout, why? The reason should of been found by now.

Could happen, could of just been a fire or something like at the Atlanta airport, who knows.

Sorry to trigger a few with a conspiracy theory in the Skunk Works. Glad some got a good laugh.

originally posted by: LookingAtMars
a reply to: toysforadults

Nato has been hacking into their systems because of the Ukraine thing, so they hit back.

As for the oil it would hurt Europe bad if Russia cut off the oil in the winter cold. Russians knows how to sacrifice for their country.

Actualliy the US could supply europe with oil and screw russia if need be.

a reply to: Archivalist

War means the debt owed to the power hitting you is null and void. Way to increase the dollars power again overnight.

a reply to: yuppa

True, but it would take a while to get the supply lines running and a lot of people would be very cold.

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: LookingAtMars

I think it was the Reptilians colluding with the underpants gnomes.

It's a theory with circumstantial evidence.

Maybe you could start a thread in Skunk Works, I would like to know more

There aren't any lightning storms. All four arrondissements in Paris, 2, 10, 11, 19 are adjacent to each other in the NorthNorthEast part of Paris. Given that there are arterial power lines going into the city, that No.19 is the outer most, and that they got the problem fixed within minutes, I would guess a ground crew isolated a live power line and earthed the rest of the grid instead.