if Russia and China have squads of state-sponsored hackers, we ought to fight fire with 400 lbs of fire.

pretty much the definition of "American(meaning 'US') imperialists" in USSR back then and Russia today.

um, no

A hostile foreign power hacking a government related server containing potential sensitive data and then spewing that data such as to disrupt a US election is vastly more significant than putting that data on the server in the first place.

One casts light on a candidates decision making process, the other is pretty close to an act of war.

Oh, wait... It is!

But you can be absolutely certain that anything that Putin is trying to do is absolutely guaranteed to vastly worsen that both inside and outside the country.

That's tu quoque. Not sarcasm.

Not when that hostile foreign power hacks the Democrats in an election year. Then they're just doing the world a favor. Allegedly.

I did not feel that he disrespected the ability of the KGB alumni running Russia to do the kinds of things which they were originally trained and paid to do.

It is however the case that the Russian Government is in fact not as competent or substantial in scope as the NSA at what they do. The NSA is easily the leader at network exploitation globally. It's not remotely a close competition and Russia knows it, which is why Putin railed so heavily against the Internet after the Snowden leaks. The NSA has a true global intelligence scouring capability that Russia could only dream of. Russia has a small fraction of the systems of data vacuuming in place across the globe that the NSA can make use of without any effort (courtesy of countless major nations that feed the NSA, including the other four eyes). In terms of sheer skill, I'd like to see the argument that the best of the NSA are beneath that of the best of any other nation. Based on what Snowden revealed, the NSA was at least ten years out in front of Russia and China in what they were doing.

They should create a GUI interface using visual basic to track this so called "internet protocol" that will identify the perpetrators.

The US probably has hacked Russian communications from somewhere else that actually points the finger. However, they would never give that information up.

Either that or they have hacked a huge chain of these proxy operations, but that seems like a tall order.

How that can be possible?

What's more interesting is that he is willing to work with the FBI and is offering clues into uncovering the hackers, but simply nobody has contacted him or expressed interest in pursuing the hackers.