EMP from attacks against assets in orbit could need a cover story.
ditto the "Great Reset" acid wipe of all the covid fraud on the web to let them drug crims get off free to Tahiti beaches etc, as billionaires.
What would norms do w/o the web and ipads and other niceties like phones… and refridgeration… and A/C and electric powered fuel bowsers and hookups to recharge their Teslas??
(But CNN would still be viewed by default at airport TVs, CNN is just like post-MAD cockroaches.)