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‘A Third World War': Russian official declares cyberwar already ‘in full swing’
Washington Examiner ^
| 16 December 2021
| Joel Gehrke, Foreign Affairs Reporter
Posted on 12/17/2021 4:25:07 PM PST by blueplum
A global conflict between the great powers of the world is already "in full swing,” according to a senior Russian diplomat, and it's happening in cyberspace.
"The war [in cyberspace] is underway and unfolding very intensively,” the Russian Foreign Ministry’s international information security director, Alexander Krutskikh, told a political science conference on Thursday. “The media rightly says that this [is] a Third World War, and what matters now is to calculate the damage and determine who will lose it in the end and what shape the world will eventually acquire as a result of this war.”...
...“No matter how hard we may try to say that all this is disguised and that it isn’t that war or this war, in actual fact, military activities in cyberspace are in full swing,” said Krutskikh, a special adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin....
...American foreign policymakers are attempting to deter another invasion of Ukraine by threatening to impose “devastating economic sanctions” on Russia.
“The Russian banking sector would be wiped out,” Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, said earlier this month. “Sovereign debt would be blocked. Russia would be removed from the SWIFT payment system ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: cybersecurity; cyberwar; cyberwarfare; internetsecurity; invasion; it; nationalsecurity; swift; ukraine; ww5
a knitted article, the red meat being boasts from Russia's Foreign Ministry they are definitely conducting cyberwar (surprise! but it's because of Ukraine, y'all). The loose link to Menendez's public boasts about blocking Russia from the web is inflamatory, but Russia's been at cyberwarfare a lot longer than the Ukraine conflict...Now they're owning it.
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posted on
12/17/2021 4:25:07 PM PST
by
blueplum
To: blueplum
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posted on
12/17/2021 4:28:05 PM PST
by
mylife
(Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
To: blueplum
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posted on
12/17/2021 4:46:16 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
To: blueplum
“The Russian banking sector would be wiped out,” Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat And you think they wouldn't retaliate is some fashion?
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posted on
12/17/2021 4:51:03 PM PST
by
McGruff
To: mylife
It’s been in full swing for many years. Russia is a culprit but China is the biggest player. But not the only other player.
To: Newbomb Turk
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posted on
12/17/2021 4:53:51 PM PST
by
mylife
(Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
To: Newbomb Turk
I suspect much of the pandemic is one of the weapons.
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posted on
12/17/2021 4:54:08 PM PST
by
old curmudgeon
(There is no situation so bad that the federal government can not make worse.)
To: Newbomb Turk
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posted on
12/17/2021 4:58:29 PM PST
by
mylife
(Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
To: blueplum
Whover loses cyber WW3 is going to have to push the button.
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posted on
12/17/2021 5:06:46 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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posted on
12/17/2021 5:14:36 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: blueplum
I would like to know who murdered our cybersecurity expert during the Bush admin... the guy who involved in the Vietnam wall Memorial in his past. The day he was murdered, he was seen disoriented... then ended up in a dumpster in another city.
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posted on
12/17/2021 5:15:54 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: mylife
The Pakistanis were doing it from the House Democrat computer system...
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posted on
12/17/2021 5:16:49 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: mylife
Sucks to be you Ivan. Have you looked around the United States lately?
Take the log out of your eye.
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posted on
12/17/2021 5:20:44 PM PST
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
To: mylife
I wonder if the Russians are savey enough to perceive that the most potent strategy is to make sure the pronouns are all in order.
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posted on
12/17/2021 5:29:25 PM PST
by
odawg
To: mac_truck
A hiccup, Joe will soon be gone.
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posted on
12/17/2021 5:31:08 PM PST
by
mylife
(Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
To: blueplum
When it comes to coding the Russians have no peers....
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posted on
12/17/2021 5:31:18 PM PST
by
Bobalu
(Figure out what you like, learn enough to be dangerous, and then start fiddling around)
To: piasa
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posted on
12/17/2021 5:31:47 PM PST
by
mylife
(Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I am on a Comcast/Xfinity connection and just logged in just fine at Epoch Times.
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posted on
12/17/2021 6:48:09 PM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: blueplum
We just be winning. I can still read about it on the internet.
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posted on
12/17/2021 6:57:29 PM PST
by
SomeCallMeTim
( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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