I have a sense that Americans are only now beginning to realize what has happened. Even leading Republicans are demanding to know what is going on. But unless something even more extraordinary occurs in the next few weeks, Russia’s American…
Monthly Archives: December 2016
Thoburn and Haddad: How President Obama can retaliate against Russia – TheHill
Would such revelations weaken Putin’s hold on power? Perhaps not, most of his citizens are under no illusion over the reality of their ruling regime. But it would send a clear signal to the kleptocrats in the Kremlin as well…
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Labour MP Says It Is “Highly Probable” Russia Secretly Intervened In The EU Referendum – BuzzFeed News
“I don’t think we have even begun to wake up to what Russia is doing when it comes to cyber warfare,” the MP said during the parliamentary debate on the crisis in Aleppo. “Not only their interference, now proven, in…
Posted in Noted & Quoted, The Russian Angle
Lipton, Sanger, and Shane: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S. – The New York Times
…[I]n 2014 and 2015, a Russian hacking group began systematically targeting the State Department, the White House and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “Each time, they eventually met with some form of success,” Michael Sulmeyer, a former cyberexpert for the…
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Watts and Weisburd: How Russia Wins an Election – POLITICO Magazine
As analysts who have spent years studying Russia’s influence campaigns, we’re confident the spooks have it mostly right: The Kremlin ran a sophisticated, multilayered operation that aimed to sow chaos in the U.S. political system, if not to elect Trump…
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Morell calls Russia’s meddling in U.S. elections ‘political equivalent of 9/11’ – POLITICO
Former CIA acting director Michael Morell called the intelligence agency’s conclusion that Russia meddled in the U.S. presidential election to help President-elect Donald Trump “the political equivalent of 9/11.” “A foreign government messing around in our elections is, I think,…
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@brianklaas: “…How Americans see Vladimir Putin, by party.” – Twitter
“Republicans are already losing their moral compass under Trump. How Americans see Vladimir Putin, by party.” From: Brian Klaas on Twitter: “Republicans are already losing their moral compass under Trump. How Americans see Vladimir Putin, by party.”
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Aleppo, D.C. (OAG #7)
The Fall of Aleppo and the virtual Fall of Washington are linked not just by the lead sponsors or perpetrators of such unimaginable or until recently unimaginable crimes, but by a long and apparently far from finished history of bipartisan and cooperative failures and omissions that, removed from context, provide illimitable opportunity for internecine partisan assault, and therefore for intensification of the underlying conditions of political paralysis and strategic hypochondria that made them possible, and that made events like them, and new ones, virtually certain.
Si Vis Bellum, Part 2: Catastrophes
America aims to be as much and as little interventionist and militarist as required in order to avoid ever becoming as catastrophically interventionist and militarist as she, in competition or cooperation with potentially many others, could be.
Mark Galeotti: Russian banks warned of risk of cyberattack: a crime or security concern? – In Moscow’s Shadows
Just as the Central Bank was involved in recent mobilisation exercises, predicated (rightly) on the fact that any major conflict with the West would also be fought with economic instruments, I wonder how far Moscow is coming to terms with…