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US Sanctions Russians Over Military, Intelligence Hacking (reuters.com)
The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on three Russian individuals and five companies on Monday, saying they had worked with Moscow's military and intelligence services on ways to conduct cyber attacks against the United States and its allies. From a report: "The United States is engaged in an ongoing effort to counter malicious actors working at the behest of the Russian Federation and its military and intelligence units to increase Russiaâ(TM)s offensive cyber capabilities," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. "The entities designated today have directly contributed to improving Russia's cyber and underwater capabilities through their work with the FSB and therefore jeopardize the safety and security of the United States and our allies," Mnuchin said, using an acronym for Russia's Federal Security Service.
I won't be either the first or the last to point this out, but this looks like staged chaff to distract the feeble-minded American public away from the new psy-ops operations now gearing up for the next election cycle.
So easy to think: "Ha. If Trump was colluding with the Russians would he allow this!" (stupid libs.)
Obvious answer: No.
Correct answer: Not so fast.
And he did the same last month
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
"Hackers" and "Russians" both mean "distraction"; and they go doubleplus well together.
I seem to recall us imposing sanctions not that long ago as well, except they weren't actually enforced by Trump. Will this be any different?
"three Russian individuals and five companies".
Three individuals. Five companies.
This is the new Republican standard operating procedure for progressing corruption in their favor.
You do the worst things you can do, inflict as great cruelty as you can through intermediaries... then when punishment is incoming, you pick out a few token groups to slap on the wrist, then don't mention in a year when you dismiss exactly those punishments.
It's basically organized crime tactics. The bosses use stooges, ideally across jurisdictions, to make all punishments possible ineffectual. As long as the crimes can be pay for the punishments, it's all a cruel form of accounting.
It's also how limited liability company shell companies and white collar crime work.
They cry like small boys when somebody possibly has done something while at the same time enganging, illegally such an Syria, Serbia, Iraq, in so many wars and "regime changes" . I really look forward to see the day when it dissolves after all other countries have dumped the dollar.
yeah it also says to not eat shit. why don't you start there
As if Snowden can't name a lot of people who can forsee Russian sanctions for doing the same and more.
But isn't Trump working for Putin?
Honestly, we don't know for sure but he's "working overtime" to try and shut down the investigation that would allow us to find out.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Putin quite obviously does have massive leverage over the well-documented liar that Trump is. There's no question. Trump would not be talking about his self-pardoning powers if he were not so plainly guilty. He's going to prison either way.
I expect Trump to step in personally, and reverse these sanctions, just like he did to all previous anti-Russian actions. He is Vladimirs stooge. The only way the sanctions would remain in place is if these oligarchs are political enemies of Putin.
The last time our government passed sactions on russia, trump signed the law but then REFUSED TO ENFORCE IT. Now we are being told that is is just another "coincidence" that he is now undermining the US's relations with almost every NATO country. When you look at the facts, it is clear that Trump is working either with or FOR Putin.
Your post is sad on so many levels.
Trump will have impeachment after election
You're undead. You already fell over, you just kept your eyes closed, like you always did, and your face hasn't planted itself on the wire brush grinder yet.
Like the Soviets, you're done for it.
You can do what you want; we know we just have to wait it out.
BTW: Good Americans are of course welcome to flee. Just keep your society's cultural cancers at home.
Kind regards,
All of the universe forever.
20 indictments and 8 guilty pleas so far, and all the Republicon INCEL faggots have is Hannity's whining, awwwww sad! Mueller will see you bitches now. Bring your toothbrush, prisoner. You won't be leaving alive.
Probably because they took their koran, to make ideology Maultaschen from the ideology shit.
(It is said that the Swabians invented Maultaschen, to hide the meat from God on Fridays. Which is incredibly stupid, if you think about it. Then again that's kinda a prerequisite for religion.)
I'm Muslim and jihad doesn't mean suicide martyr. In the context of the Quran it means to persevere or in Christian context is similar to "keep the faith". All religion have extremists.
Trump basically isn't even an American anymore. Just another nazi Republicon fraud trying to pass himself off as the new normal, lol. Get Trump a nice glass of toilet wine from his new digs, cell block D.
None of those indictments have anything to do with the campaign, but you knew that already.
So on one hand Trump tells the G7 that Russia should be allowed back in the club, while on the other hand congress is approving sanctions against Russia. Maybe he doesn't seem to understand the contradictions or is so far out of his depth he wasn't sure what the G7 club was about?
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
Jesus Christ! Even the editors can't control their smart quotes! Get it together man!
you are putins cuck
It takes a while to make sure every angle of Kremlin influence, every ounce of fraud, every redirected campaign dollar, every substantial lie, and every treasonous action in support of an enemy dictatorship be properly documented.
This is important not only for making the charges stick, which they are already, but for America to document Russia's attempts to usurp our continuance of government. Trump will die a traitor in Federal Prison. America will go on.
Mueller is an American hero even before he locks Trump up for life.
I don't expect a moron like Bobby here to appreciate the gravity of Mueller's job. He's a willing traitor for political gain, faggots like Bobby need their necks stretched for treason. No more fucking around, hang this traitor high. No quarter.
So... it'd be okay now if Russia and China sanctioned say, Microsoft and Oracle for improving the capabilities of the CIA/NSA?
Maybe they did and maybe they didn't. But you know who HAS been interfering in America's elections? Rich Americans, and corporations that are now allowed to BUY our "elected" (hahaha) "leaders" (hahaha) which begs the question, why is it such a big deal if the people screwing with our elections are "domestic" or "foreign"? Does anyone really believe that rich people who own homes around the world, travel freely and often between countries, can be counted upon to do what's RIGHT for OUR country, rather than what's right for them?
Is anyone so naive as to think that being born in a place magically instills feelings of loyalty to the regime RUNNING that place? All signs point to "no". The rich who now outright OWN the bulk of our politicians and direct their actions are why we've been in a lot of these undeclared wars, why the government now seems to be working at crossed purposes with the majority of the electorate, etc.
Need cases in point? Okay, the vast, vast, VAST majority of Americans want common-sense gun control / gun ownership reform, and decriminalization of (or outright legalization of) certain substances, such as cannabis, (a.k.a., "weed,") but the government ignores them. Why is that? In what pretends to be a democracy, a system (whether you prefer to call it that, or a "representative republic," being no matter, they mean the same damned thing, government with the consent of the governed,) in which the leaders are chosen by the people to do THEIR will, and look after THEIR interests, they seem instead to be working exclusively for their "donors," (by which I mean, their owners, because that's what they are,) not just in cases where both interests can be served simultaneously, or the people don't care one way or another. In these cases, and many others, the people care VERY MUCH (or would if they weren't asleep, most of them,) about a great many issues. But the people who run the place officially, and answer to the people in theory, should, over and over again, have been evicted from office, but rarely are.
This is because the system perpetuates itself, the media that should be shedding light on these shenanigans has mostly been bought, and is directed to look away, people who refuse are FIRED and blacklisted, never to be heard from again on any of the mainstream media networks the majority, for some strange reason still listen to, as if they're still doing their jobs, and people have been tricked into believing that a vote for anyone besides the Republican nominee is as good as a vote for the Democratic nominee, and vice versa, and therefore if you're not voting for one or the other, you're throwing away your vote, and/or you shouldn't even bother because why waste your time if your candidate can't win, and so we have these UNELECTED, fraudulent corrupt politicians, being "elected" with a small fraction of the total number of votes that COULD legally have been cast in any election, because people have let themselves be defeated before the battle even began.
So let me say this now. Vote, and vote for whomever you think would govern or legislate best, not for whomever you are TOLD you better vote for, and vote even if your candidate "can't win". In fact, vote ESPECIALLY if he or she "can't win" because that assertion is ONLY true if you believe it. It's literally a self-fulfilling prophesy. If you believe he or she can't win, and so you don't "waste" your "vote" on that person, choosing instead to let someone tell you whom you WILL vote for, then it is actually true. So rather than doing that, vote instead for someone who has truly earned it, regardless of whether or not he or she can win, and if nothing else, send a message to all the other people who HAVE fallen for that lie, that it IS a lie, and all we need to do to fix this, is show up, VOTE, and vote for someone who has EARNED it, rather than for someone who has SCARED or TRICKED you into voting for him or her.
Remember, there's no such thing as a "spoiler" in an election. Until
STOP COMING TO UK. THX.
Tell your politicians to stop letting them in. TRUMP has the right idea and is dealing with this in the US. Wall on Mexican and Canadian borders.
Haven't you figured out that there are Russian posters on this forum? They are very clearly present here and continuing to influence social media.
lol i wish mate. all pols are very good at appeasement
That's Military, Comma, Intelligence --two words with a comma in between! said the White House press agent. That ought to reduce the "fake news" by a third. One-third, got it?
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
... work that out, and you'll see what this BS is all about ;)
The UK should build a wall on the Spanish and French borders ASAP.
Dumb American.
Which allies? OK, OK. North Korea perhaps.
Come to Iceland. I've never even seen a Muslim here.
Trump is a GLOBAL phenomenon.
No, we're just amused that you still haven't figured out what's wrong with continually complaining that you were outsmarted by someone you think is an idiot.
Let us know if you ever figure it out, okay?
"cyber and underwater capabilities"
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What happened under water? Some optical got tapped into? "Tracking?"
The list has NotPetya. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The original of the code was something from EternalBlue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"U.S. energy grid and on internet routers and switches".
Finally something in the USA?
Back to "underwater capabilities".
Then a jump to "nuclear facilities"?
So Russian now has "design, manufacture and supply" of " professional diving equipment"? Sanctions.
EternalBlue lost to the wild of the internet? Sanctions.
Something cyber something nuclear facilities? Sanctions.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I'll leave this here for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOVPStnVgvU (John Oliver)
They investigated that for a long time. They get an iron-clad case then they snap it shut. I would suspect he's slowly tightening the noose...
You're completely wrong, 17 of them do, but you knew that already.
All of Robert Muellerâ(TM)s indictments and plea deals in the Russia investigation so far
That we know of
I believe Paul Manafort had something to do with the campaign.
Roll those sanctions back before Vlad gets annoyed at you, Donnie. Traitorous scumbag that you are.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.