re: Fox News is trying to sell you war.

Truth.

When I first signed up for the gravy train at the government trough, the Russkies were our #1 enemy…with a smattering of the Balkans, Aristide, and peaky camel jockeys along the way until we started dropping warheads on foreheads of the syncopated inbreds in southwest Asia.

I always go to Mill’s quote regarding war and those who do the fighting:

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War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other

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I agree with him, yet Mill, though a brilliant philosopher and proponent of personal freedom, never carried the load as a soldier nor suffered the scars of service for “God and country”.

All that to say, regarding Russia or any other foe, I would like to see a sea change in how we clamor the drums of war especially now that my oldest is standing in the gap at Bragg on a work up.

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What kind of cyber attack would happen, I’m unfamiliar with this stuff

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There are vulnerable parts of all our utilities including energy, water, waste. Financially infrastructure, security systems, large businesses, etc.

Military/Govt agency infrastructure much more likely to be a hard target, but not like you might imagine or hope. Many of what I listed are soft due to lack of funding for support and maintenance over the years. Add on your basic incompetence and we are full of holes and ripe for an IT meltdown.

Just my perspective as someone in networking for 20 years.

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For the slightest bit of perspective, Kronos got hacked not that long ago. If that's what your company uses, that affects your pay.

An aggressive cyberattack by a country intending war could disrupt all sorts of things in the general populace, creating mayhem. This is not even considering 'essential' military and government stuff.