• hexonxonx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    The US’ infrastructure is incredibly weak and vulnerable, and there are about a million(!) Canadians living in the US – and that doesn’t include dual citizens which is probably double that.

    So it’ll be nothing for Canadians living in the US to fuck shit up in a major way. How many refineries do you think the US can lose before people can’t buy gas anymore? Those Amazon warehouses look pretty flammable. Datacentres would probably burn pretty good too. How long will it take to replace those high-power transmission line transformers? How is the East Coast going to power itself when Canada stops powering them? How are US airports going to operate when there’s small drones continuously overhead? In fact given the hub-and-spoke design of US air travel, only a few airports need to be droned to completely shut down air travel across the US, including shipping. On a final note, only a few hundred grams of thermite can melt of hole through a wing or a fibreglas hull, so a lot of VERY expensive billionaire and government hardware can be reduced to ash with nothing but a small drone and a pissed-off Canadian.

    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      You’re making it sound way harder than it is, The US has like 4? substations that if they all went down at once it would cascade fail about 90% of the grid, they aren’t in bunkers or surrounded by armed guards or anything, they’re random ass substations with chain link fences around them.