Russia is signaling it could take out the West's internet and GPS. There's no good backup plan.

Bark bark bark

suuure, they couldn't even take out ukraines communication systems

Maybe they could get an compromised/friendly/useful idiot/individual installed in the hightest levels of government who, either intentionally or unintentionally, would funnel secrets to them which help facilitate mass disruption?

ohh wait...

I find the threat of GPS loss to be hard to believe. Theyd have to take out 38 GPS satelites and presumably any of the other navagation satellites American allies have in orbit, and presumably theyd have to not damage their own navigation satelites in the process. I also doubt they could do that all at the same time, or quick enough that no one could respond. Im sure they have the capability, and im sure they have an idea of what the operation would have to look like but in terms of a plan that's actionable, I have big doubts.

Yeah?

And we'd retaliate. Which is why they haven't done it. They didn't shoot down the satellites in the cold war and they aren't going to do it now unless they've decided the world without satellites is just so much better.

How is this news? China could nuke the West Coast tomorrow and the Canadians might invade Maine to secure a maple syrup monopoly! Actually, that's more likely than anything else in this thread...

Russia said they'd take over Ukraine in three days.

Russia says a lot of shit.

Russia has become the embarrassing relative you hate seeing at holiday gatherings.

How would they interfere with our elections without the Internet?

The same Russia that "indicated" the Ukraine special operation would take three days?

Lol

What? The whole fuckin internet is the backup plan

Like bro do you even BGP?

that's basically russia asking to get wiped out

Russia couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag.

The internet was literally created by the DoD to have a communication system that was resilient to foreign attacks. If one part of it goes down, it can still work with the parts that aren't down. This is built into the design.

Russia continuing to signal why it's a good idea to take them out. Thanks, Russia!

They’re afraid to use their glide bombs in Kursk because they’re not accurate enough to avoid hitting their own friendlies and they think they can hit a satellite moving ten of thousand + miles an hour in orbit!? lol

"We could totally fuck you up if we wanted."

"Go ahead and do it then."

"..."

"I'm waiting."

"...I do not want to."

In the Julia Roberts move "Leave the World Behind", they mention a process of destroying a country. (I vaguely recall that the process was attributed to a real person.) One of the steps was to take down the internet. With lack of information chaos develops, and the country destroys itself.

Just imagine the outrage if Russia is the reason that tiktok goes down

That's hilarious bro this putin guy needs his own stand up special he's probably got a million of these

The Russians talk shit everyday. It ends up that it's either something that they can't technically do, as it is here, or something that would would result in having their ass handed to them.

I really don’t think they have the capability, actually. They might be able to degrade the network, but I don’t think they would be able to actually physically destroy enough elements of the constellation to make it generally useless.

Not to mention, I’d be a bit shocked if the DoD doesn’t have some backups sitting quietly (as in: not broadcasting at the moment) in geosync. After all, it’s the first rule of government spending.

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