I am not on board with much of what @Water Melon spouts, but there has been an increase in birth defects and cancer in Fallujah after we blasted it all to hell.
Are Russia preparing for WW3?
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Of course there has, to this day kids are being born with horrible birth defects, and to this day the US denies using depleted uranium. The media has their knives out over unverified chemical attacks allegedly carried out by the Syrian regime yet digs its head in the sand everytime fallujah, Israeli white phosphorous or rebels using chemical weapons themselves is mentioned.
Yeah, great idea for the US media to tell the world the CIA is preparing a covert cyber attack against the Russians, best give them a heads up
Yeah, great idea for the US media to tell the world the CIA is preparing a covert cyber attack against the Russians, best give them a heads up
That's a part of the psychology of it. Leaking it to the media so they can wind the Russians up a bit before actually doing something.
And not expect the Russians to preemptively position themselves to prepare for such an attack? Seems a bit shortsighted to me.
Not exactly seeing what use there is provoking the Russians further with a pointless act of machismo here, not as if tensions arent dangerously volatile as they are...
It's one of those untold or, at least, underreported tragedies of war. Like all the children growing up in a world of violence with no proper education in that region or wherever they've fled to.
If the US want to hit them hard they will be defenseless.
And it'll be documented prior what their intentions were, unprovoked too by the sounds of it. Not exactly great diplomacy on the world stage.
The whole idea behind cyber attacks is their clandestine nature and hence denying any involvement after. Not basically admitting to the world you want to act like cnuts for a bit of a wind up.
There's no magical rule that says cyber attacks have to be clandestine.
Perhaps not but most are, and for good reason too. You don't want to have to admit that you were deliberately sabotaging a rival nation or enemy's cyber infrastructure.
I'd imagine deliberately leaking it to the press without publicly admitting anything, then carrying out a massive and crippling cyber attack against government infrastructure as well as Putin and his cronies personal accounts will be the US way of saying we are doing this to you as a response to your attempting to hack into our elections. Needless to say that sort of thing won't in a million years be allowed to go unanswered as it will only encourage more.
There had to be a public response when a foreign government is trying to rig an election. It's not like the Russians will be like 'Oh shit! I guess we should get some virus protection now!'
I think you misunderstood what the attack would be. Seems like the US government is threatening to leak damaging information about Putin and pals. They're not going in and replacing their UI's with US flags.
Sorry, but that's a dumb analogy. Of course, the US is still the preferred destination for most immigrants, and not only from the former USSR, simply because it's the most economically advanced country in the world, so it's only natural that people from across the world tend to move there.
But here's a fun fact for you: according to UN Population Division estimates, as of 2013, the Russian Federation was second only to the United States in the sheer number of immigrants.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russia-the-worlds-second-largest-immigration-haven-11053
It's the same reason: for all the problems in Russia, the living conditions and wages are far better there than in most neighboring countries.
And no, it's not a trend when according to the article I'd posted earlier, only 0,1% of the population are actively trying to immigrate to the US.
It's still pretty dumb to announce it in advance.
I'm sure they have a reason for doing so. They're not that stupid.
Depends why someone leaked it. Could just be so the attacks send a public message. Could just be someone who wants to force the administration to pull the trigger sooner. Whoever went public isn't doing it for shits and giggles, and will be certain that it won't interfere with the attack itself.
Like I said earlier, there had to be a public response after what happened. Otherwise this administration would come off looking even weaker, which would not be good given how we've approached Syria with red lines and all that...
"The worst is yet to come". So true.
I'm starting to think the the whole thing is a big ruse to distract us all from something. No one leaks to the media they're about to do a big attack.
How strong is Russia from a conventional military point of view? They got their asses kicked a few times by the Chechens and had troubles with the Georgian ground military as well before they fully utilised their superiority in the air to bomb Georgia.
Very well written piece. The last paragraph or two are very telling and read somewhat like Hitler and the grievances of the interwar years that led to WW2. A deeply insecure country and population that are bombarded with identity propaganda to conform to their leader's plan to lead them astray.
Stronger than most militaries, considerably weaker than the US military.
They didn't really get their asses kicked by the Chechens, they lost a lot of men in both campaigns due to the urban nature of the conflict, but eventually ended up devastating the chechen seperation forces to captilulation in the second war.
And see what they got!
Conventionally probably the world's second or third strongest. But then again you have to look at the massive disparity in defense spending and global reach between the US and the next 9 or ten countries on the list. It's massive.
Or to put it in the words from the New Yorker article posted earlier this page ....
Definitely right, but when both sides are loaded with nukes.... there just can't be a conventional conflict between the two. Cold War type proxy wars at best, you'd think.
Yeah the US has a far superior military prowess than Russia for sure. Not only just in sheer size, organisation, money and technology but also the concentration of knowledge in the US is a huge help to their military. You have so many large firms there who are top of their fields in technology and military equipment. Russia is simply inferior in pretty much everything IMO.
What we could do? Send troops there? You keep saying the Russians are weak and you forget or maybe you don't know but weakness is the problem here they would never lose a war even if the entire world decided to invade them, then the economic sanctions will backfire us because more we attack them more united they will be . We are going back to the Cold War era and if they decide to invade another country on their borders we will watch, complain and everything will stay the same except we will live in a dangerous world. If the Russians decide to give intercontinental nuclear rockets to Iran then I'm sure we will live in a safer world.
I thought the the article made a good point that nukes are Russia's only bargaining chip left in the table in the absence of the disparities in economic and conventional military options.
I'm not sure if we can do it, all the best hackers are in Europe and I still can't believe our government servers are hacked constantly and nothing been done.
There's a difference between cyber security and offensive hacking.
Our government servers should be impossible to break in, I'm sure we spend billions with our tech guys who got the jobs not because what they know but because who they know.
Par for the course of living in a free society. What the events of this year are showing is that the government needs to take these issues more seriously in the future.
the observation should be that the polished politicians are all crap. People see through their lies.
Jeb Bush's humiliation was something to savour.
all the excitment about these Russian cyber attacks. We do the same. The focus should be on what was leaked.
Mind, if this is just a primer for a confrontation with Russia/their proxies, which is what I suspect, it makes perfect sense.
There is money to be made in wars. That is what this is all about.
Mind, if this is just a primer for a confrontation with Russia/their proxies, which is what I suspect, it makes perfect sense.
There is money to be made in wars. That is what this is all about.
Apologies for the late reply, don't have much time to post here lately.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-groups-blocking-aid-to-aleppo-for-political/
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-aleppo-media-war-20160830-snap-htmlstory.html
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/is-aleppo-turnaround-sustainable-for-rebels
And there are many more. And by the way, these article are still not telling the whole truth (imo at least), because they're still not neutral, but when even they admit these things, you know these facts are beyond any debate.
Now he's trundling his warships through the English Channnel on their way to Syria. With a bit of "bombing practice" thrown in for good measure.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...raids-near-Scotland-ahead-Syrian-mission.html
This sums up for me what his game is. Fed up with sanctions, criticism and a total lack of respect from the main world powers he's flexing those muscles of his in an effort to cause the world some real concern about his future plans. It's a threat....basically treat him with the respect he deserves or else... He'll carry on provoking too, in the vain hope that someone overreacts and he can respond accordingly. Maybe it's time we listened to what he is telling us. The world has enough problems without us making any more.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...raids-near-Scotland-ahead-Syrian-mission.html
This sums up for me what his game is. Fed up with sanctions, criticism and a total lack of respect from the main world powers he's flexing those muscles of his in an effort to cause the world some real concern about his future plans. It's a threat....basically treat him with the respect he deserves or else... He'll carry on provoking too, in the vain hope that someone overreacts and he can respond accordingly. Maybe it's time we listened to what he is telling us. The world has enough problems without us making any more.