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All these things can be true at once:
1) Solar Winds was espionage not an attack or act of war
2) US has done extensive cyber espionage & was predator long before it was prey
1) Solar Winds was espionage not an attack or act of war
2) US has done extensive cyber espionage & was predator long before it was prey
3) Espionage is accepted by all nations … yet online espionage is different, can be more dangerous b/c we all use the same Internet & underlying techs
4) Russia deserves brushback pitch (a signal to back off) & disruption of their ops
5) Persistent engagement didn’t detect or stop Russia. But that doesn’t (yet) equate to failure or suggest we stop disrupting adversaries attempting such ops (or disrupting the Olympics again)
5) Persistent engagement didn’t detect or stop Russia. But that doesn’t (yet) equate to failure or suggest we stop disrupting adversaries attempting such ops (or disrupting the Olympics again)
6) Access from Solar Winds could have been used for massive disruptive attack any time Putin wanted. Had there been a US-Russia crisis, the US would have desperately overestimated the strength of our hand compared to Putin’s
