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Biden Announces New Sanctions on Russia, Expulsion of 10 Diplomats, in Retaliation for Hacking and Election Interference (apnews.com) 184

The White House is announcing the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats and announcing a new round of sanctions against Russia. From a report: The moves are in response to interference in last year's presidential election as well as the hacking last year of federal government agencies. The U.S. for the first time explicitly linked that intrusion to a Russian intelligence service. [...] The sanctions, foreshadowed for weeks by the administration, represents the first retaliatory action announced against the Kremlin for last year's hack, familiarly known as the SolarWinds breach. In that intrusion, Russian hackers are believed to have infected widely used software with malicious code, enabling them to access the networks of at least nine agencies in what U.S. officials believe was an intelligence gathering operation aimed at mining government secrets.
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Biden Announces New Sanctions on Russia, Expulsion of 10 Diplomats, in Retaliation for Hacking and Election Interference

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  • What's the Republican/Trump Supporter reaction to this?

    • Look at the AC below you to see...

    • by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) <drink@hyperlogos.org> on Thursday April 15, 2021 @07:46AM (#61276146) Homepage Journal

      I can tell you what it's going to be on this discussion: they're going to cry about the "russia hoax" and they will likely use the phrase "russia russia russia" ala the Brady Bunch. They're going to call us idiots and sheep for believing that Russia might want to influence our elections, while others of them will call us idiots and sheep for believing that it's wrong that Russia wants to influence our elections.

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Salgak1 ( 20136 )

      . . .noting that none of the similar activities by China were even mentioned ??

      • by The Evil Atheist ( 2484676 ) on Thursday April 15, 2021 @08:18AM (#61276336)
        https://www.smh.com.au/world/n... [smh.com.au]

        US intelligence agencies found other attempts to sway voters, including a “multi-pronged covert influence campaign” by Iran intended to undercut Trump’s support. The report also punctures a counter-narrative pushed by Trump’s allies that China was interfering on Biden’s behalf, concluding that Beijing “did not deploy interference efforts.” “China sought stability in its relationship with the United States and did not view either election outcome as being advantageous enough for China to risk blowback if caught,” the report said.

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by kallisti5 ( 1321143 )
      Something something Hillary emails something something cancel culture something something I'm no racist but... something something. Putin without a shirt on, boo any hints of socialism, but full blown communist dictator I have a hard on.
    • by sd4f ( 1891894 ) on Thursday April 15, 2021 @07:53AM (#61276198)

      I think Georgi Arbatov said it best, in the late 1980's; “Our major secret weapon is to deprive you of an enemy”; “It’s historical, it’s human, you have to have an enemy,”; “So much was built out of this role of the enemy. Your foreign policy, quite a bit of your economy, even your feelings about your country. To have a really good empire, you have to have a really evil empire.”

    • What's the Republican/Trump Supporter reaction to this?

      To your attempt to blame even your lackluster "win" on Russia? (A sort of anti-matter red scare ... the left can't forgive them for going un-red.)

      Reaction. Well, mostly a snort. Well, maybe more of a chortle. Possibly a guffaw? Then there's always the horse laugh ...

    • I've seen some confusion in the ranks. There's still a remnant of "damn russkies" and "support the troops" in their hivemind that is muddling their response. I think they'd be happy for some scenario in which both Biden and Russia could lose.
    • Something along the lines of ...But his laptop

    • by Entrope ( 68843 )

      Probably along the lines of "Biden copies Trump -- again".

      You may be old enough to remember the 2012 presidential debates, after the Republican candidate identified Russia as America's greatest geo-political adversary, and Joe Biden's ticket-mate dismissively responded: "the 1980â(TM)s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back".

      • To be fair, China is eclipsing, or rapidly eclipsing, the threat Russia poses. Russia is by and large a regional power now. Yes, it has nukes, but it simply does not have the economic engine or the captive group of partners like the Warsaw Pact. That's not to say Russia is not a threat, it most certainly is, but it is not what the Soviet Union was.

        • Exactly. Economically, Russia is about equal to Italy and militarily about equal to France or UK.
        • by sd4f ( 1891894 )

          A critical distinction is that the soviet union was effectively shut out and mostly isolated in just about all respects. China is not; to the contrary, a lot of companies, huge american corporations are completely reliant on trade with China. I think this whole anti-russia angle isn't completely without merit, but mostly a red-herring, where Biden et al. are looking for an antagonist in their narrative, more for the purposes of internal consumption. Who cares if you offend a country that you don't really tr

    • All election interference should be dealt with exceptionally harshly, but it's telling that Iran interfered in favor of Biden, Russia interfered in favor of Trump, and only Russia's getting heat on it. While the US is forging along with a favorable Iranian nuclear deal.

      They should both be sanctioned.

      https://www.reuters.com/articl... [reuters.com]

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  • They should have retaliated against SolarWinds, who has shown they can't even remotely keep their software secure. Also there are plenty of alternatives to SolarWinds now, so there is no reason to keep using anything from that company.

  • The cold war being over. Seems very alive, kicking and screaming very loudly...
    • by mark-t ( 151149 )
      The cold war being over ended once and for all when Trump decided to dissolve the nuclear non-proliferation treaty instead of even making any attempt to hold Russia accountable for their actions in defiance of it.
  • Hmm (Score:5, Insightful)

    by cascadingstylesheet ( 140919 ) on Thursday April 15, 2021 @07:54AM (#61276208) Journal
    When do the sanctions against the tech and media companies [time.com] start?
    • Re:Hmm (Score:5, Insightful)

      by hondo77 ( 324058 ) on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:04AM (#61277164) Homepage

      The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election--an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted.

      Oh, the horror.

      • The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election--an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted.

        Oh, the horror.

        Um, yeah. That's their self-evaluation of it. Duh.

        They "protected the election" by massively coordinating, suppressing speech they didn't like, changing laws and regulations at the last minute, and causing a massive change in how people vote (making fraud way easier).

        But yeah, Russia bought some facebook ads or something. So okay ...

  • Well, here's the kettle calling the pot black!

  • by wiredog ( 43288 ) on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:05AM (#61276576) Journal

    Before Glenn Greenwald objects?

    • by Uberbah ( 647458 )

      Anyone who doesn't have their head up their ass is already doing so. The rest are sure Saddam's WMD's and 911 masterplan will surface any day now. Any day now....

  • Why can't we do more covert acts instead? What does the CIA do with its $15 billion budget?
    This act is too overt and destabilizing .. could lead to WWIII.

  • This was also a response to the SolarWinds hack, a massive breach of the US Government by Russia.

    And what was Trump's response? Defending Russia and spreading election conspiracies instead [wikipedia.org].

    This is exactly one of the reasons why candidates should reject foreign election interference. Leaders are supposed to be loyal to the country they lead. But when a foreign power played dirty to get you elected you now have split loyalties and end up doing bizarre stuff like defending a hostile power that just attacked yo

  • A fine, funny movie with Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LePaglia, and basically all true.

    America has this law against state actors "interfering" in elections, by providing any information, lies, or truth, to the populace to help(?) them decide how to vote.

    There's no such law against British Petroleum (American branch office) electioneering, just Britain itself.

    In Russia, they didn't know HOW to run an election campaign when Boris Yeltsin actually needed to, so they hired American consultants, who showed him how to

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