Let me help you out with that.
"If Texas were connected to either of the national grids, they would have been [in] compliance with federal standards for their infrastructure and would likely not have had the failure in the first place."
There. Let me break it down for you a bit more;
If { connected to the national grids } then { federal compliance = true }
If { federal compliance == true } then { reduce_disaster_probability() }
I then go on to explain that the entire reason they are using the HVDC interlink is to avoid needing to fix their shit in accordance with federal standards.
So again, where did I even imply that the HVDC link would solve anything? I'm being pretty explicit that the HVDC link will NOT solve anything, but it WILL saddle their neighbors with more troubles.
=Smidge=