I suspect the Cold War of cyber warfare that is happening is orders of magnitude bigger than the public knows.<p>Imagine knowing this and not being able to get emotional support from your friends and family.
There's lots of people working for NATO and federal agencies in Europe that have been assassinated by the luckystrike branch of the FSB. The name comes from the Telegram account with underscores in between, and they're essentially recruiting kids or former inmates for GTA style missions.<p>Starts with simple stuff like package rerouting, then goes on to gathering intel about places, people, putting in USB flash drives to their laptops, arsony, and actual murder. Each step of the way the kids get deeper into trouble because they have to prove that they have done it for the payout, making photos of themselves... which gives the other end increasingly more doxxing material on them.<p>It's a real problem, and they use the luckystrike branch also to go after witnesses in big lawsuit cases, which then fall off due to all witnesses accidentally dying under seemingly random causes.
(Replying to my own post). Also, it’s gotta be mentally draining to be told by the president they have to win but also always let Russian attacks though.<p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-orders-halt-offensive-cyber-operations-rcna194435" rel="nofollow">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/defens...</a>
Presidents come and go and, hopefully, this one will be held accountable.
I'm an agnostic, but when I read about what he does, it makes me devoutly wish that hell exists. He has made countless people's lives hell on earth, and he doesn't care at all. No one is holding him accountable in this life: it's inconvenient for those in power.
Just as important, the US will need to figure out exactly what strings Putin's managed to attach to Trump - kompromat? threats? bribes? elaborate man management? something else? - or this vulnerability could be exploited again.
All of the above, plus death threats.<p>Trump isn't the weakness. The weakness is the almost complete collapse of the checks and balances around the president. If those were in place Trump would have been in prison by the end of 2021 at the very latest.<p>The DOJ, the military, both houses, the AIPAC wing of the Democrats, and corporate media are all fully captured. So are "independent" organisations like the NRA.<p>The Supreme Court is mostly captured. The lower levels of the judiciary are still holding out, but have limited enforcement ability without the DOJ.
It's why I don't see the US making the course correction it <i>actually</i> needs - realistically the "best" feasible outcome is that a presidential election is held and a business as usual democrat is elected who will immediately not address any of the problems for whatever reason (part of the system/paid by the same people pick one).<p>Candidates come and go but the system endures and it is the system that is rotten at every level all the way down to the core.<p>Then 4-8 years later the GOP candidate wins subservient to the same interests as Trump and the US Gov is back <i>there</i> again.<p>Not really sure what the outcome is for the US at this point, things will have to get a great deal worse before enough Americans decide this is unacceptable but that state can last years/decades before the dam breaks.
None. No vulnerability. The population and the RNC just voted for a known Russian asset for some reason.
Idk maybe there is something nefarious but afaik Putin's always been cordial with Trump as well as let him do various investments in Russia. I'm not sure there's much reason for Trump to alienate his friend; if you've ever see Trump's staff meetings you'll know how much cordiality is important to him.
It's almost certainly just that Trump is a fundamentally fragile, insecure man. He has proven over and over that he will happily fellate (proverbially speaking) any man who says nice things about him, and at least refrain from assaulting most women who say nice things too.<p>Putin (and everyone else) knows this.
Epstein files?
The new US policy under Trump is giving up trying to win the world and instead focusing on internal market and dominance over the American continent. Causing and sustaining friction everywhere is aligned with this policy.<p>This is the result of a shift of power in the US politics, from the global financial capital of the last decades back to the military and industrial sector.
"Between early June and early July, as many as five individuals who worked in or closely with US Cyber Command died by suicide, based on internal communications, public records and sources. The deaths have raised concern among lawmakers and military leaders within the highly secretive command, which is responsible for defending US networks and conducting offensive cyber operations."<p>According to <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-25-107121.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-25-107121.pdf</a> there are ~17,000 authorized positions
There is a tv show about in-the-know government employees dying by suicide: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormwood_%28miniseries%29" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormwood_%28miniseries%29</a>
Wasn't there something similar with scientists recently? I wonder how much of that is just statistical noise.
That turned out to be false. Normal attrition / vacation time.
yep, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyw9rpdl4po" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyw9rpdl4po</a><p>> "The US Top Secret-cleared aerospace and nuclear workforce is ~700,000 people," science writer, investigator and pseudoscience debunker Mick West wrote on 16 April on his Substack.<p>> "Ordinary mortality over 22 months predicts ~4,000 deaths, ~70 homicides, and ~180 suicides. The list has 10 … The deaths are real. The families' grief is real. The pattern is not."<p>> Louise Grillmair, similarly, says that - while her husband "would laugh" at speculation that the deaths might be connected - he would also "probably talk statistically" to squelch conspiracies.
Yes, there was a lot of statistical noised amplified by the conspiracy theorist media.
It wouldn't surprise me if they found out something they shouldn't about Israel's infiltration in US military and politics, and were dealt with.<p>But most probably they couldn't bear the atrocities they had a first row view at.
Once you know about the NSA backdoors you become a walking security risk. Forget about that vacation in beautiful China, you will be held on a short leash for life.
If they downvote merely speculating about that, imagine their methods regarding those in the know.
Flagged and downvoted.<p>American thought control is as responsible for driving the Zionists insane from within, as well as those CIA funded white terror cells in the Ukraine who were raping and murdering the families of Russian sleeper agents (retired, from the “old world”) which triggered the Ukraine invasion.<p>You don’t what to hear it, though American Thought Control is dominated by white supremacists.<p>My comment saying “they are the voices in our heads” driving many to suicide has been flagged if you care to read it.
Anyone have a non-paywalled source?
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