This feels extremely creepy. Part of it is the idea that there’s not an enormous amount of authentication with the mail. Any actor could send be sending these

This feels extremely creepy. Part of it is the idea that there’s not an enormous amount of authentication with the mail. Any actor could send be sending these — there’s no reason to believe it’s the PLA. My favorite form of this tactic was from The Three Body Problem, where alien invaders make use of remote sabotage to pit nations against one another, in an attempt to weaken human society. If you ever want to invade Mars, first go to amazon.mars and order a bunch of seeds from one country/mons to be delivered to another. You’ll start a diplomatic incident — a war, hopefully — and crush the ecological system at the same time, leaving you a nice weak planet to invade and terraform at your leisure.