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It's not that Russia has moral objections but that there is a risk for them if they are found out. How risk-averse are they?

• trhway 10y ago
  >there is a risk for them if they are found out. How risk-averse are they? what is the risk? US hacking Russia's elections in response? :) Sanctions? You may have noticed that hacking each other computers is considered on practice (not in the public speeches :) a fair game, kind of a quiet Cold War these days - everybody does it to everybody else and everybody keeps it quiet, be it failures or successes, for exactly that reason of not wanting to make public the fact of doing it themselves. Specifically in this case the fallout from US government officially establishing/confirming/proving that Russia hacked the US elections would probably be more devastating to the US government agencies and to overall societal trust into the US democratic institutions than to Russia. So Russia has no downside here really either way. Such logic fits pretty nicely to the opportunistic approach (tightly coupled with absolute absence of any moral objections (bombing hospitals and other civilians in Aleppo as part of advancing the Russian interests in Syria for example)) that has already been demonstrated on many occasions by the current Russian regime. Even without actual hacking, just by supporting and promulgating the rumors and conspiracy theories about the hacking, Russia already deals [risk-free] a lot of damage here, in particular to the societal trust, - with discussions like this one being probably a sign and/or part of that damage.