If only the Internet was resistant to losing connections. I guess all we can do is give these guys more money to defend us from the big bad bear with a military that is a tiny fraction of ours.
That's how you end up fighting wars nobody wanted. If you threaten Armageddon over every little thing and then don't deliver, nobody is going to take you seriously when you're, well, serious.
I'm convinced that's how the US ended up bombing Serbia - the Clinton administration tried to buy a little cheap grace by threatening the Serbs, thinking Milosevic would knuckle under and that would be that. But they were ignored. More threats followed and were also ignored. At some point Clinton had to do something or nobody on the planet was ever going to believe he had the backbone to carry out a threat.
Because it's not a distraction.
...well...the UFOs thing is...
Thief: No sir. You're paranoid.
Man: That is my wallet. I can see my ID!
Thief: See, I told you that you were paranoid.
Sane Man: No sir. That's my mobile phone.
Man: That is my wallet. I can see my ID!
Sane Man: You need help.
if you lose significant capacity (or all capacity) simultaneously you can't fall back to the "internet is resilient" routine. you're straight up screwed.