The Internet is the "21st century battlefield". And Russia has declared war.

[sharedvalues]

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[Cha]

1. Yep, I've seen that before.. and they'll be back.. they won't

be exposing sexual fascist perverts, though

[sharedvalues]

2. To add: Russia is doing this in part because it's cheap and easy

Russia is a poor country but they have a great secret service. And paying armies of trolls and starting propaganda TV stations are cheap for state-level actors.

A few hundred million is a small part of the Russian government budget. It's one missile strike.

h/t to Timothy Snyder who I heard on Josh Marshall's podcast. I'm paraphrasing Snyder.

[Cha]

3. It's real and it's scary.. we've already seen

what it can accomplish.

Thanks

[Skidmore]

6. All the more reason for

people to stand united.

[Cha]

7. Yes, Skidmore!

[C Moon]

4. So true. This should have 1,000 recs.

[Lee-Lee]

5. Of course by this measure we have been at war with China for some time as well

While they have not meddled with elections that we know if they have been far more involved in other aggressive and more sophisticated cyber actions against the US than Russia ever has.

[sharedvalues]

8. Schindler has a recent article on China too

Yup.

[dalton99a]

9. Russia is an enemy of the West

No one should forget that simple fact