The outgoing US administration has not given up on its hope of dealing one last blow to relations with Russia, which it has already destroyed. Using obviously inspired leaks in the US media, it is trying to threaten us again with expansion of anti-Russian sanctions, “diplomatic” measures and even subversion of our computer systems. Moreover, this final New Year’s “greeting” from Barack Obama’s team, which is already preparing to leave the White House, is being cynically presented as a response to some cyber-attacks from Moscow.
Frankly
speaking, we are tired of lies about Russian hackers that continue to
be spread in the United States from the very top. The Obama
administration launched this misinformation half a year ago in a bid to
play up to the required nominee at the November presidential election
and, having failed to achieve the desired effect, has been trying to
justify its failure by taking it out with a vengeance on Russian-US
relations.
However,
the truth about the White House-orchestrated provocation is bound to
surface sooner or later. In fact, this is already happening. On December
8, US media quoted Georgia’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp as saying
that the local authorities tracked down the origin of a hacker attack on
his voter registration database after the election. The attack was
traced to an IP address of the Department of Homeland Security. This was
followed by an attempt to quickly cover up this information by a flood
of new anti-Russian accusations that did not contain a single piece of
evidence.
We
can only add that if Washington takes new hostile steps, it will
receive an answer. This applies to any actions against Russian
diplomatic missions in the United States, which will immediately
backfire at US diplomats in Russia. The Obama administration probably
does not care at all about the future of bilateral relations, but
history will hardly forgive it for this après-nous-le-deluge attitude.
A cowardly move on Obama's part. Surely, he realizes that the Russian government could easily hit back, giving other governments / agencies / individuals the opportunity to add to U.S. government hacks and be blamed by Russians.
ReplyDeleteObama is only making more political messes for the new President to clean up. He is truly stirring a pot that will damage the U.S. I am surprised that Kellyanne Conway has not already put this on the table so they can claim 'Toldja So' when this occurs.
I am surprised that Kellyanne Conway has not already put this on the table so they can claim 'Toldja So' when this occurs.
DeleteShe hinted at it today.