What if you goal was just disable them for a bit? Steam pipes and transformers are probably less hardened.

The timing to have half while we have a lame duck president is kinda interesting. It could be a coincidence, but if you were gonna do something to a country, doing it during a government transition would probably be more effective.

If your enemy doesn't play by the rules you follow then you will always lose. Make new technology! Simple! Now that the easy part is out of the way, try not to get the technology stolen or copied.

Good for you? Ill bet the list of things you didn't do in the Guard is much longer than the stuff you did do.

Certainly not. Do you think illegal immigrants steal no cars?

Maybe the threat of heavy handed law enforcement had an effect. Maybe not. There's also been a problem with precincts reclassifying crimes to make them seem better. We won't call it armed robbery, we'll call it a simple assault, stuff like that.

"Main" role? Nice qualifier. How about just any role in his success? Most people don't have someone playing a role, even if not the "main" role, in helping them along.

When you type all that out do you think to yourself, "Oooo, that'll really get 'em".

No, he was convicted of illegally structuring of bank withdrawals to evade bank reporting requirements.

Had he said "I'm paying hush money to someone I sexually abused a few decades ago earlier", the whole financial part of it would have been legal.

No, having preferential treatment for one race over another is the past mistake you want to correct. You recognize in that statement why it was wrong to do to black people. How do you not recognize that that is universal truth and wrong to do to any race, any person? DEI is harmful to black people, anyway. In your world you believe black people don't have professional jobs and you are trying to balance that. In reality what it does is it undermines every black person that got there on there own merit because now there's a good chance they are there from DEI instead of just being damn good at what they do. Now when choosing between a black professional or say an asian one, well you choose the asian one because there's odds the black person isn't as skilled and got there on lowered standards.

The kind of hiring practices you describe have been illegal for decades. That's how to get sued. That all was true once, but it's not anymore. Rich people don't care about color, they care about being rich. Quit making that racial divide, it's an intentional distraction. You notice how hard they started pushing divisive politics after Occupy Wall Street happened?

So you're saying the only reason a group of people do not perform the same as other groups is racism? That's the only answer? There's no culture or genetics at play at all? What about Asians the do better that everyone else? In what way has their racist behavior lowered everyone else's scores vs them?

The real problem you're fighting is that for many blacks, education is a white thing. You're educated? Then you're an Oreo (black on the outside, white on the inside). It's certainly not all of them, but theres enough to control their culture.

It doesn't matter if "historically" white men had an easier time getting a job. First off, it's today. Quit clinging to the past cause it will always be there and no amount correction will ever change that. Also, if the goal is to combat racism, you can't do that by oppressing another race. It's like nothing is ever actually learned.

So name another empire that had a rapid military expansion just before it died. Militaries cost money, something dying empires lack. All those empires endured a long decline usually followed by a coup de grace to finish them off. You're just making up a bad narrative for the US and then claiming some historical precedence when you're wrong. The Roman empire, the Aztec, the Mali, the UK and most of Europe... all slow declines, some punctuated by an invading army.

So invade and install a new leader or keep sending them money in the hopes it doesn't just line some pockets?