Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders a halt to offensive cyber operations against Russia
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders a halt to offensive cyber operations against Russia
Well I, for one, am shocked that our Russian-controlled puppet government is acting like a Russian-controlled puppet government.
It probably was incredibly expensive to buy Trump's victory, but you can't argue that Vladdy Poot Poot isn't getting value for his money.
Probably not that expensive. We’re talking about guy who bankrupted a casino. He’s endorsed Trump steaks. He might have endorsed more things than Shaq even if none were as large as Shaqueronni Pixza. How much did it cost to get Trump to do a cameo in Home Alone 2? He probably had to pay them.
I'm not just talking about Trump. Nearly the entire Republican party is compromised as well. Also, there's Elon Musk and who knows how many other wealthy, high power individuals. Obviously, they weren't all bought with cash, but even collecting compromising secrets on them is time consuming and expensive. You kind of have to respect the hustle, even though the end result is the complete destruction of the last vestiges of our democracy.
His cameo in Home Alone 2 was free. He was the owner of the Plaza Hotel at the time and he insisted on the cameo as part of the payment for using the hotel for filming.
Shaq's is the story of a successful person
I've speculated (without direct evidence) that the Putin regime is giving trump and his team guidance on what to do.
Trump wants to be like putin in terms of power and wealth. They like the authoritarian oligarchical structure, again for power and wealth. Hegseth, musk and the rest will be part of it all. More power, wealth and unrestricted freedom to do anything they want without regulation.
Freeing Andrew tate, the nazi salutes, freeing the Jan 6ers... Tactics to give bullies power to feel free to bully. The worst of the worst. Other bullies see this and feel encouraged to do the same, and then they're protected and pardoned. Anyone against the trump cult see this, and righteously have more fear of fighting back. They want to make us like Russia.
I still hold hope in our country, but its faint. Very pessimistic and cynical. It will have to get way worse before even the maga cultists start to question what's happening.
Trump, Vance, Musk, Hegseth and the rest should be executed for treason. I want them fucking executed.
Treason, just like his boss Diaper Donnie is doing.
Republicans continuing to betray the United States.
Wait, why were we taking offensive actions?
Every nation outside of Russia has been under attack from Russian mercenary groups for over a decade. In the news they're typically referred to as "ransomware gangs". This is a euphemism. The reality is that these groups all have ties back to FSB or other parts of the Russian military structure. They operate with the approval of the Russian government, and they attack Russia's adversaries. They attack civilian infrastructure indiscriminately, disabling power, water, logistics, schools, hospitals... they don't care what the damage is, they don't care if people die because of their actions.
NotPetya is the classic example. That was 8 years ago. Since then the frequency and scope of attacks has increased.
It seems like we also don't care what the damage is or else we would make at least some effort to secure our IT systems. Of course the robber should be blamed but those who leave their doors wide open are guilty too. If we care so much about the consequences of ransomware attacks, why do we not act and avoid shitty software that only compromises security and instead built more resilient systems?
Because the two countries have been attacking each other economically, politically, intellectually, and digitally for decades now.
Just because people aren't shooting guns at each other doesn't mean a war isn't happening.
The US is also at war with China.
There was a 2 decade pause after the Soviet Union fell apart. And I would qualify that China is lower grade than Russia. We're in an arms race with China and we are both doing intense intelligence work against the other. But China isn't trying to actively sabotage infrastructure or civilian business. The Russians are doing all that because it's all they can do. The Chinese are playing a longer game that they hope will see us pushed out of Asia without warfare beyond the intelligence world.
Maybe because russia has been taking offensive actions against the US and its allies. They helped install agent Krasnov as president FFS.
The US is likely taking offensive actions against everyone not a close ally. Probably even many of those who are.
We've been in a cyber and shadow war with Russia for a little over a decade now. The closest we've come to a hot war so far is when Russia ordered it's mercenaries to take an oil field guarded by US troops in Syria. (We were backing the rebels, they were backing Assad) We asked them if they were Russian and the Russians denied it so we unleashed the full power of the US Air Force on the column. Something like 5 guys out of 300 survived.
And ever since then Russia has decided a campaign of political influence, hacking, and physical sabotage was the way to go.
So yeah a country isn't going to just sit there and take that, there should be a response. If for nothing else then to counter their efforts.
B/c USA is a genocidal empire. Ofc it's been attacking the alt-empire. It's just completely hidden from us until someone dares to stop it. Then the imperial media goes apeshit.
The only time that imperial media admits cyber attacks on russia.
I think we all knew it was happening, and if we didn't wouldn't be surprised
It didn't need to be said, but previous administrations also treated it as a secret so it wasn't just out there for reporters.
Traitor.
Traitors, plural. They're all fucking traitors and it's so obvious.