``John C. Inglis, the former deputy director of the U.S. National Security Agency, said in 2015 "frankly, the No. 1 threat experienced to date by the U.S. electrical grid is squirrels." ''
"there have been eight deaths attributed to animal attacks on infrastructure, including six caused by squirrels downing power lines that then struck people on the ground."
And frogs. They get into transformer boxes, junction boxes and apparently are highly conductive. I had to replace a half a mile of 4ot cable as a teen and the people I worked for were too cheap to rent a back-hoe. So I was the back-hoe.
Timeline is not relevent to current political war situation.
Squirrel damage is limited to a short out.
Human damage can break many many obscure parts with a single bomb.
Not even remotely close comparison in terms of damage.
This guy lefts thousands without power for days. Squirrels don't do that.