Solar flare, aging infrastructure or Russia: Who gets blamed when the US has a massive power outage?
Robert Bridge | RT
June 18, 2019
https://on.rt.com/9wld

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The New York Times has once again plumbed the bottom-feeding depths of journalism with an uncritical story on how the US hacked Russia’s power grid – without Trump’s knowledge. What could possibly go wrong?

Imagine the following scenario. You are home alone on a Friday evening, relaxing with your favorite TV series when suddenly the lights go out. Using the wall as your guide, you struggle to the kitchen to find some candles. On the way, you glance out the window. A mild panic takes hold as your brain processes the shocking scene: from your view atop a New York City high-rise not a single visible light can be seen aside from the twinkling of car headlights far below. The Big Apple, home to over 8.5 million people, has been plunged into a metallic sea of darkness.

In an effort to comprehend what has happened, you begin to ponder apocalyptic plot-lines borrowed from a Mad Max flick. Did the planet’s power grid finally get fried by one of those solar hiccups we’ve been conditioned to fear? Did that damn rogue asteroid final impact the earth? Did WWIII begin and nobody tell you? And undoubtedly you will hypothesize along the way that America’s arch nemesis, Russia, has been playing with the power switch.