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Re:U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid by meritt on Saturday June 15, 2019 @11:17PM (#20193642)
Have you read about the 2016 United States election interference? [1] Or the Russian probing of the US power grid? [2]

Russia has been attacking critical infrastructure in the US for years. This is at best an incredibly latent response from a government who in many cases welcomes these attacks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/us/politics/russian-hacke...

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Re:U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid by crdoconnor on Sunday June 16, 2019 @12:52AM (#20193905)
It's difficult to tell what's true and what is made up by the US military as a pretext to keep ratcheting tensions up (and justify their existence):

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/31/russia-hysteria-infects-...

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