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Wake me up when Austrian malware causes a total collapse of key infrastructure projects in a developing nation that didn't deserve it...

Austrian foreign policy only helped bring about a world war.

the word "deserve" is very subjective... who gets to decide who is "deserving"?

Hopefully, the democratic public.

Realistically though, authoritarian power brokers.

I apologize for the rabbit hole. But I must ask: the "democratic public" of North Korea? or just "mob rule" in general? the "authoritarian power brokers" of the US? or Russia (i.e. Ukraine, Odessa, etc...)?, China (i.e. India, Tibet, Myanmar vs. Rohingyas, etc...)?

The line has to be drawn somewhere. The UN has proven to be quite useless.

Edit - Link Added: http://www.independent.ie/world-news/china-endorses-myanmars...

True power is assumed, never granted.

Only a couple countries are truly effective at it, although all would like to be.

Zero countries control as many key technologies trusted by other countries as the US

No, not all countries at the same level, for the same reason.

It can be from defense to big attack.

Only the big one can really have the budget to do so.