> in a small country with narrow roads..

vs a crazy large country with a zillion logging roads? :-)

Could be!

I've grown up with seeing bollards everywhere, even when I was a kid and long before I started driving - there are even more in London! I suspect they are just a cheap and effective way of keeping cars where they should be in a small country with narrow roads..

The local 6th form centre has bollards on its main pathway, but they are there because by its nature such a place is going to attract new/inexperienced drivers who might easily mistake it for an entrance you could drive through..

This doesn't happen as much in UK because nearly all shop entrances are target hardened with bollards and have been for about 30 years (this is more against ram raids and straight up bad driving than shops being specifically targeted for political reasons)

Skeena Mall
Dec 28, 2015
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This evening, an individual drove a vehicle in one entrance of the mall and out the other. This individual is in police custody. Thankfully, no one was hurt.
There was significant property damage to the entrances, particularly to the west entrance near Winners.
https://d2v9kn8vtn478j.cloudfront.net/production/building/images/attachments/000/027/556/big/1.jpg?1651672421
Tiny town, so tiny mall.

the people doing stuff like this aren't even planning to "win" anything, just to make life worse for everyone else. There's not a lot of them but just one man can do a lot of damage these days..

We've also already got a problem with LTE masts being burned down (ever since the various anti-5G conspiracies), which is also making telecom companies wary about putting up new ones (this is directly affecting my work colleagues as frontline staff sometimes struggle to get the care recording app to work in some areas due to bad signals). This is on top of the problems with capitalists letting the mobile network decline in reliability over the years..

Pro-hunting lobby already tried sawing through a 33 000 v electricity pole a few years ago and nearly brought it down.

There may not even be attacks prompted directly by nation states, but taken as action after localised disputes, for instance in Northern Ireland following a dispute over pay at a medium sized family business someone poured petrol into the VDSL street cabinet and lit it up - a whole section of a town was without phones/broadband for 3 weeks whilst Openreach repaired it (although they can fix the effect of vehicle strikes within 1-2 weeks)

I don't think insider attacks are a threat.
I mean, I can think of all kinds of evil ways to attack infrastructure, of course! It's our job to think stuff like that up - but I don't think there are any real threats in the UK that way.
The real threats to infrastructure are in plain sight: capitalists.
Capitalists decayed the waters and sewers (Thames Water). Capitalists are whoring out Scotland's electrical via their ownership of the grid. Capitalists *will* control the NHS. Tories

I live near airbases and I've seen increased movement of military vehicles in last few months, but I don't think the real threat to UK is from missiles or aircrafts but insider attacks on critical infrastructure..

I read this on dw earlier too:
https://www.dw.com/en/german-men-need-military-permit-for-extended-stays-abroad/a-76662677

So. Are we prepping? 'We' all the west. Canada just ramped up its budget. Germany seems poised for conscription. The USA is off the rails...

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