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You said that the 1987 outage didn't reach 3% of the UK. The 2025 outage in Georgia didn't reach 3% of the US, either. You compared a state with a major power outage to multiple countries, as though it were a meaningful comparison—I don't see how it is.

US states may not be sovreign like EU states are, but they're similar in a lot of other ways.

Agreed. On that note London is also big enough that percentages are the right measure. Here is 7% of London being knocked out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_London_blackout

Cool. 100% of Italy lost power in 2003. That's over 50 million people.

Resulting in a major investigation, whose conclusions were acted upon to try to ensure it didn't happen again.

If you sit on your backside and say "eh, not too bad, these things happen", then you normalise failure, and things keep getting worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance