I have a sense that a big portion of the world is about to get a harsh lesson in automotive anatomy, even as it watches a war unfolding before it.
I'm talking about wire harnesses, the labor-intensive, complex and largely unseen central nervous system of every automobile for the last century — regardless of whether that vehicle burns fossil fuels or runs on electricity stored in an onboard battery.
Though it pales in comparison to the human suffering occurring in Ukraine daily, Russia's invasion has also severely crimped, and perhaps ended, production of wire harnesses in the former Soviet republic.