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>There is no central choke point in a solar based grid.

The distribution becomes the target, not the generation. I agree with most of the other things you're saying, about how I can generate a small amount of electricity on my own if I buy a PV system. That's irrelevant, however.

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Destroy oil supply and there is a crisis in 12h. Destroy solar supply and there's a crisis in... 20 years? It'd actually be much sooner but the point is that it's much less urgent that oil.

Destroy solar supply chain and then your main solar generating plants and there is a crisis that day as well.

Sure but certainly you understand that's far more complex to do than taking out a single oil refinery next to your country that affects the whole work and is the only reason a country like Iran has any power at all?

They can just target the Suez Canal and wreak similar economic havoc. They can target the Temple Mount if they wanted to really see the world rise up and burn. It isn't the only accessible linchpin even in the region. It is just perhaps the closest one to hit when throwing a stone.

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