Which Is More Disturbing, A Deliberate Attack or Crumbling Infrastructure?

Either way things are not good in Berlin. Berlin power cut leaves tens of thousands without electricity until Thursday

I didn't call it a terror attack, in part because the police are still investigating, and well, it would be an overstatement.

A fire broke out on Saturday, damaging the city’s power infrastructure and prompting a police investigation into suspected arson.

Thousands of residents in large parts of southwest Berlin have been affected.

Temperatures in Berlin are hovering around freezing, and they were expecting snow.

‘Power is expected to be restored to Berlin-Lichterfelde late in the evening on 3 January 2026.

‘Power is expected to be restored to all customers on Thursday afternoon, 8 January 2026.’

So you have a critical infrastructure component that is subject to attack, causing a multiple-day outage. You can't have technological civilization without electricity. Lights. Heat. Communications.

I wonder if they will do anything to harden the infrastructure or build some kind of redundancy. No, they won't do that. That would involve proper systems design, and no one does that. No one in politics certainly.