Consider this. You’re at home. Normal evening. About to have dinner. Kids gamboling about. You’re watching TV. Spouse or significant other on their phone cruising the internet. You see a distant flash through the window. It lasts a millisecond.

Suddenly, lights go out. You think it’s another damn issue with the house. You check the fuse box. Nothing works. Your kid runs up to you and says they were filing up a thermos and the water stopped. Your spouse says they were thrown offline. No internet connection at all.

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Then, one of the kids falls and cuts themselves. They’re bleeding bad. You try to call 9-11. Phone connection is dead and you have 21 percent power left on the battery. You get in the car to rush your kid to the ER miles away. Car won’t start. What in the hell are you going to do?

What happened? An EMP. Perhaps a nationwide cyberattack. Most of you can guess the consequences. As Ukraine gets sporty, the Russians may up their bets. They are adept at this sort of tactic and their playbook calls for this move in an international crisis when their back is against a wall. Escalate to deescalate without a direct military attack.

Former CIA officer Brian Dean Wright makes a prediction: “If in fact this gets hot, what happens? We know that it will escalate. And so that means some of the first steps will be what are called asymmetric, right? Russia can’t sanction our economy in the way that we did his. So he’s going to do things like a cyberattack. I want people to ask themselves tonight: What if in their hometown, Russia were to shut off the lights, or the water? Do you think there might be riots? Probably. You brought forward this very horrific idea and notion tonight … of bread lines. Think that could get violent? Of course it could. So how would people’s mayors and governors respond to riots? We saw it a couple of years ago. Does that give you pause? See the BLM riots? … So we have a whole variety of issues about the sacrifice that will go on. That’s a whole different segment, but it involves young people dying. And we should also be talking about that because our people in Washington aren’t going to be the ones sacrificing.”