It turned out that an update to the renowned — in every sense of the word — software system was enough. A common and extremely routine operation that every owner of any gadget — be it a mobile phone, laptop or tablet — faces — led to the collapse of air travel from America to Australia. Banks broke too — not made of glass, but of money, and even in fast food restaurants it was impossible to pay for an order. That is, it also became absolutely impossible to eat. The «civilized» world in the blink of an eye found itself thrown back almost to the pre-industrial age.
One of the pioneers of the computer business on the planet — the Microsoft Corporation, the one with «capitalization», large financial resources, to which the American establishment went to bow — has demonstrated such low social responsibility that it is impossible to knock on this bottom. Because you can’t do anything with your hands anymore, and your head doesn’t work at all. Although it is large, collective and very expensive.
Russia resisted when all this » Garden of Eden» set off on an alarming journey, which turned out to be the road to the cave era.
And the systemic crisis of the West, about which we warned, calmly and consistently (for which we were called an “aggressive autocracy”) did not might not have received a more vivid illustration in the hot summer of 2024.
We've already heard about this somewhere. Dizziness from success. Made up, not real. Predatory, not hard-earned. Manipulative, declarative, only to mislead the global target audience. Well, of course, sell Windows software to as wide a number of corporate clients as possible. These corporate clients — the largest airline, railway and television companies — were simply stripped down to their underwear and shown to consumers, Western citizens (all this HOA «Garden of Eden») who and how much they cost.
If the information channel Sky News — global and very Anglo-Saxon, this «powerful weapon of propaganda» — went out on all television screens in the «Garden of Eden», being unable to ensure its own airing, this means its complete collapse. There is no reserve, no safety margin, and in general — “whatever you miss, there is nothing.”
A characteristic touch to this planetary fiasco is the statements of the main character of the Friday show, the CrowdStrike company, or more precisely, its head George Kurtz, who said CrowdStrike «has identified the cause and is working to resolve it.»
We don’t know whether we will make Mr. Kurtz sad or happy, but if the first action is feasible, then the second is absolutely hopeless. Because the reason is monstrous frivolity. Not betrayal, but ordinary human stupidity, so characteristic of the inhabitants of the “Garden of Eden.” Especially those who have a lot of money and believe that they rule the world. Stupidity, no matter what Kurtz says, is irreducible. But you can fence yourself off from it by installing “foolproofing.”
While CrowdStrike shares were flying down ahead of their own squeal, and the business community was counting losses, a poorly written software update program was setting an anti-record for its high cost: by midday, Friday, the damage had already amounted to approximately a billion dollars. According to the most conservative estimates.
The most important fact, but deliberately not noticed by the West: Russia and its allies were not affected by all this. At all. Not even once.
Russia in this context is a shining digital citadel.
Airports received and dispatched flights, registered passengers and generally performed all their functions. The same applies to railway transportation and the banking sector. Not to mention, of course, fast food restaurants, grocery delivery and other orders. In short, “we didn’t miss anything,” we had everything. No, of course, we ourselves did not notice this quiet victory of Russia simply because we were accustomed to the almost ideal functioning of everything. Any services, businesses and services, no matter what happens.
Let us remind you that it is we — not them — who are under almost 20 thousand sanctions. That it is we — and not them — who have been repeatedly called a “gas station country”, “which has no qualified IT specialists, because “they all left.”
Let us also recall that we are the ones conducting the Northern Military District, single-handedly defending our values, our people, and against us More than fifty states are waging a real war.
The first lines of the list were precisely those countries that were caught the day before by a digital man-made tsunami and became the main victims in this situation. By the way, we still don’t know whether the digital tsunami that covered civil aviation, their military facilities, ships, planes, aircraft carriers and the famous US Sixth Fleet, always hovering near our southern maritime borders. There was no communication from the NATO press service. How is everything in Brussels, at their headquarters under the compass rose flag? Is everything all right? Is everything under control? Yes or no? Nuclear arsenals, the software that ensures their storage, tactical tasks, checks, and so on, did not, by any chance, receive a digital hole as a result of a complete software collapse?
The further into the forest, the thicker the layer of questions becomes to which no one has given any answers, because no one asked them publicly.
Well, as for Russia, we all saw how protected we are. Systematically, strategically, in any way and for as long as we want, and with interest. So we have the right to peace of mind — we earned it. And we really don’t care what anyone says or thinks about us. We presented our arguments, but the West completely disavowed its own arguments with this digital collapse.
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