A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Kremlin is concerned over a report from The New York Times that said the US is preparing a series of cyberattacks on Russia.
The Times report cited anonymous officials who said a “series of clandestine actions across Russian networks” are expected to start within the next three weeks. The officials said the cyberattacks could come along with new economic sanctions on Russia.
“This is alarming information,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday. “This would be pure international cybercrime.”
The planned cyberattacks are being framed as retaliation for the hack of the software firm SolarWinds that affected several US agencies. But no evidence has been provided that showed Russia was responsible for the SolarWinds incident, and Moscow denies the accusation.
“The Russian state has never had anything to do with cybercrimes and cyberterrorism it is being accused of,” Peskov said.
After the SolarWinds hack was first reported, members of Congress and Western media outlets immediately blamed Russia. In January, several US intelligence agencies released a statement that said Russia was “likely” responsible, but no evidence was presented to back up the claim.
A cybersecurity expert who previously advised SolarWinds said “any attacker” could have pulled off the hack due to a vulnerability in the company’s update server. SolarWinds’ CEO told a congressional hearing last month that the update server’s password, which was “solarwinds123,” was publicly available on the internet between sometime in 2017 and November 2019.
The US cyberattacks its frenemies and enemies but accused Russia of a cyberattack when there was a breach at Target. In London Has Fallen, the USA & UK were depicted as good guys and the Mid Easterners were depicted as bad guys that caused a blackout in London. Gerard Butler was considered a hero.
Israel has a spy network in American, and we know it and allow it. The network was profiled on Fox News years ago. Britt Hume was the commentator.
I don’t think you can find it now.
Clearly Washington is determined to provoke Russia. It’s a gamble, but they’re confident She’ll absorb an immense amount of pain without responding in kind.
And they don’t seem to care that the entire world knows they’re lying.
don’t be too confident. Playing with fire is not fun. And don’t put us all at risk
“Clandestine” – does this mean you have to tell everyone about it?
You do if it’s the narrative, not the action, that is the point …
A secret cyber attack on Russia announced via a standard New York propaganda release three weeks ahead of the secret action? Let’s hope US central planners have not gone completely off the rails and still know that clandestine means secret. So, if there is a clear centrally planned motive behind Biden’s terrorist plot; What might this Democratic Party reading of their war playbook tell us is going on?
We know two aspects of this riddle; 1. The US has not on its own won a war against approximately equal military power since it defeated indigenous nation’s by riding successive westward waves of a smallpox epidemic that repeatedly struck a native population who’s immune system had never experienced the disease. and 2. The president of Russia publicly expressed concern quite soon after learning of the New York propaganda release.
I give up. Any ideas?
Yes, NYTimes is basically a CIA news release; so what’s the point with this particular release? I’m hoping it’s just a “see, we’re not Russia’s puppet” differentiation with the previous regime, as well as continuation of the constant demonization of the necessary enemy.
In other words, all talk, the talk being the point.
Here are some very interesting comments from the American Admiral in charge of USSTRATCOM about how the United States needs to prepare for a nuclear war:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2021/02/preparing-for-nuclear-war-in-multipolar.html
The leap toward a global nuclear catastrophe is more likely than it has been since the early 1990s when the Soviet Union and the United States were facing off against each other particularly since Washington is feeling increasingly threatened as the multipolar world evolves.
I think they’re misunderstanding their opponents. The American military chiefs like to think in terms of a solid opponent they can contend with head on. However Russia and China know the USA is the biggest primate and so will individually do everything they can to avoid being lined up to fight on a 1 – 1 basis. They want America to be defeated by fighting everyone else except them.
The most plausible scenario is just that. America will be drawn into a series of expensive and disastrous engagements with low to mid-range powers, till it is bankrupt and collapses under the weight of its own internal contradictions. Any nuclear weapons used will be used against these smaller opponents who have no nuclear weapons of their own, but nevertheless the conventional capability to anger the USA into attacking them with nuclear means, as with Japan 76 years ago. Iran is the most likely contender right now, but others might yet do the same.