[Nasrudith]

It probably wouldn't happen (or at least shouldn't if they aren't complete morons) for the most amoral reason - how much it would cost.

The damage is in opportunity costs to businesses and after it happens the disruption causes them to lose/fail contracts and either go out of business or leave and flip the country on harsh terms as they are rightfully pissed at the large scale losses they took from them and to paraphrase George Harrison on Manilla "would only return to drop a bomb on the country." America and Europe would have more to lose not that it has stopped the latter before (WWI).

The wrinkles in such optimism are "Great Firewall" style more targetted systems and their own market clout.

A small scale example was pulled in America already almost a decade ago by BART pulling a Mubarak that disturbingly left open the option even as they rightfully rebuked them for breaking FCC law.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/barts-cell-phone-shutd...