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Just yesterday, Obama’s baseless assertion that America is not entering into a new Cold War with Russia was shown to be little more than aspiration when NATO officials blamed Russia for a recent rocket attack on a Ukrainian city and a Russian spy ring was broken up in Manhattan. According to an indictment, Evgeny Buryakov, one of three Russians charged with conspiracy and employee at a Russian bank in New York City, was not only seeking to recruit Americans to serve Moscow’s interests but was attempting to covertly subvert American markets.
The Washington Post noted that it is extraordinarily disturbing that Russia was seeking to use automated trading algorithms to disrupt the financial system. On several occasions in the past, the malfunction of these programs has caused cascading market failures and has cost those affected by these failures tens of millions of dollars in mere minutes.
It is tempting to engage in the philosophical debate over whether this apparent reprisal for Western economic sanctions was morally, if not legally, justified. And we can have a lively and nuanced theoretical discussion about whether or not covert actions like those allegedly embraced by Moscow, or overt sanctions regimes imposed on Russia by the United States and its Western allies, constitute acts of war. It is not any longer possible, however, to pretend as though the West and Moscow are not engaged in a contest with both nations’ fundamental interests at stake. If we refuse to call it a “Cold War,” then we need to invent a new term to describe this state of conflict between nations.....snip~
Russia?s act of war against the United States « Hot Air
So what do you think about this issue that's been on the trend? Is BO and the O Team missing the warning signs put out by Putin? Is Putin engaging as if he thinks he is at war? How serious would this be.....say back in the 60s and 70s? Do you think BO and his Team can handle the increased pressure? How much more blatant does Putin have to be.....besides coming out and Declaring War on the US? What say ye, are we in a War with Russia and BO doesn't even know it?
The Washington Post noted that it is extraordinarily disturbing that Russia was seeking to use automated trading algorithms to disrupt the financial system. On several occasions in the past, the malfunction of these programs has caused cascading market failures and has cost those affected by these failures tens of millions of dollars in mere minutes.
It is tempting to engage in the philosophical debate over whether this apparent reprisal for Western economic sanctions was morally, if not legally, justified. And we can have a lively and nuanced theoretical discussion about whether or not covert actions like those allegedly embraced by Moscow, or overt sanctions regimes imposed on Russia by the United States and its Western allies, constitute acts of war. It is not any longer possible, however, to pretend as though the West and Moscow are not engaged in a contest with both nations’ fundamental interests at stake. If we refuse to call it a “Cold War,” then we need to invent a new term to describe this state of conflict between nations.....snip~
Russia?s act of war against the United States « Hot Air
So what do you think about this issue that's been on the trend? Is BO and the O Team missing the warning signs put out by Putin? Is Putin engaging as if he thinks he is at war? How serious would this be.....say back in the 60s and 70s? Do you think BO and his Team can handle the increased pressure? How much more blatant does Putin have to be.....besides coming out and Declaring War on the US? What say ye, are we in a War with Russia and BO doesn't even know it?
