Basically, perhaps we need to begin to understand that we are now at war.
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Putin knows it, for sure. But nobody here knows it yet. We are like the guy who felt the little prick on the back of his leg and is just barely beginning to be aware that something is wrong
Pictured above are various weapons and defenses over the centuries. Weapons — and defenses to them - are always evolving, depending on the technology of the day. Usually the highest technology of the day. For every new offensive weapon a successful defense eventually comes along, and vice versa. Note that only one IT-type tech item is shown - the German Enigma machine for sending coded messages. In this present conflict, have we reached the point where computers are the battle field and our latter day V-2 guided missiles, too?
WE ARE FIGHTING THE LAST WAR - PUTIN IS NOT
In each war the early losers start out fighting the last war, while the early winners embrace the new technologies and find out how to best attack with them. We need to start defending and fighting - and it has to be in the world of the hackers.
Most of us don't know that we literally are in a war right now - and, yes, it is a cyber war. We have are aware that our SYSTEMS have been attacked and have suffered damage, and it is incumbent upon our cyber warriors to defend the United States.
We don't FEEL like we have been attacked except when we look at who our enemy has put into our Chief Executive position. Russia feared Clinton and hated her and did everything they could TO KEEP US FROM HAVING A SUPER COMPETENT PRESIDENT. Instead, Putin installed an IDIOT.
This is a very real invasion, a coup, and we are in a panic - fussing about what to do with this Putin puppet in the White House. The weapons are new, the latest development in methodology and the best warriors in that field of battle. We don’t know it yet, but hacking another country's government or institutions is an INVASION. WE MUST FIND WAYS TO DEFEND AGAINST THIS HACKING. If we don't, all our future elections will be illegitimate. We will not know who really won the elections.
Putin is strutting around like he is Hitler entering Paris - because HE knows he has blitzed our defenses and that if he wants, he can have us on our knees at any moment.
One of the main goals in a war is to destabilize the institutions and infrastructure of the enemy and to incapacitate them as much as possible. THIS HAS BEEN DONE. The first shots have been fired across our bow. We have had our Fort Sumner and it has barely registered that it was an act of war.
We are at war, whether we know it or not.