Imagine waging war against a country that provides critical components of your electrical infrastructure, and then pissing off their allies so much that they ban the export to your country of even more critical components of your electrical infrastructure, and then conscripting the linemen and engineers who maintain your electrical infrastructure.
and then targeting the electrical infrastructure in the other country, which makes them hit yours back, but you cant repair things because you need the country you’re at war with to produce the replacement parts for you.
so then you look around at the countries still willing to do business with you, but none of them make components that are compatible with your electric grid, and if you used their stuff it would make the problem even worse, so you just stew in rolling power outages.
imagine if you were to do all of those things.
Imagine if the war you started cost so much money you had to cancel all future investments in power infrastructure, so all the engineers who design and build power plants have to look to other countries for contracts. And then one of the sanctions aimed at hurting your ability to wage war shut down the critical software those engineering firms require to do their job so they all leave your country to build new headquarters in the countries giving them contracts. Imagine.
Imagine if, after all that, random power plants in your country began failing and literally exploding.
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