One of the many oddities of the Russian attack is the fact that the lights are still on in Ukraine. Had this been an American-style invasion the electricity would have been one of the very first targets, both to partially blind command-and-control systems and to make life miserable for civilians.
In fact U.S. military doctrine includes bombing waterways, dams etc. both for tactical reasons and to increase pressure on civilians. See Iraq, Libya.
And fire. The U.S. uses fire, from flamethrowers on Pacific islands to mass-casualty incendiary attacks, think Hamburg (with British), Dresden (with British), Tokyo, etc. And A-bombs.
And in Vietnam, napalm. lots of napalm. But we aren't seeing any of that in Ukraine.
As of Thursday the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) verified a total of 564 civilian deaths during Russia's military attack on Ukraine as of March 10, an horrific and probably lowball number but orders of magnitude below the 377,000 civilian dead the UNHCHR estimates for the U.S.-backed Saudi war in Yemen. So what is going on?
Ya got me but here's one little-reported story from the first week of March.
From PV Magazine, March 1:
The communication channels affected are also used by photovoltaic systems.
originally from pv magazine Germany.
German wind turbine operators have reportedly been confronted with a fault in the satellite connection of their systems. Dominik Bertrams, MD of wind farm operator Tobi Windenergie Verwaltungs GmbH, yesterday announced on Twitter the remote monitoring and control of thousands of wind turbines had failed.
With the outage having occurred between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Thursday – when the Russian army invaded Ukraine – Bertrams suspected a cyber attack by Russian hackers. The reason for the failure has not yet been clarified.
Collateral damage
It would appear unlikely, however, Russian hackers directly targeted German wind turbines. Commenting on the incident to the Handelsblatt business newspaper, a spokesperson for the German Wind Energy Association said the disruption was due to the failure of the KA-Sat communication satellite belonging to Viasat. An article in weekly news magazine Der Spiegel stated the US military's military communications services also run through Viasat satellites.
Those reports would suggest failure of the wind turbine control systems could be the collateral damage from a cyber attack on a primarily military target....
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