For point #3, there are a few irregularities: 1. Services all going down one after another. 1 goes down - it happens. 2 go down - it happens sometimes. 3 go do

For point #3, there are a few irregularities: 1. Services all going down one after another. 1 goes down - it happens. 2 go down - it happens sometimes. 3 go down - quite a rare sequence of events. But now a large number of silicon valley companies have experienced service outage over the last few weeks. 2. Russian sub that is said to be a "deep sea research vessel" somehow experiences a fire whilst in international waters [1]. It has been suspected that it could have been tapping undersea cables. Let's imagine for a moment a scenario where they were caught in the act, some NATO sub decides to put an end to it and Russia cover it up to save face. 3. Russia announces tests to ensure that it could survive if completely cut off from the internet [2]. A few months later it's like somebody is probing US services in the same way. 4. There is currently a large NATO exercise in a simulated take-over of Russia happening in Countries close to Russia [3]. Of course it's completely possible it's all unconnected, but my tin foil hat brain says there is a game of cloak and daggers going on here. I would say that Russia's incentive for probing the US/NATO is to test it's weakness after undergoing a trade-war with China and raising sanctions against Iran. After all, Russian fighter planes regularly try to fly into UK airspace just to test their rapid response crews [4], this sort of behaviour is typical of them. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Losharik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Losharik [2] https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/russia-internet-turn-off-digital-economy-national-program/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/russia-internet-turn-off-d... [3] https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/05/13/6000-military-personnel-to-take-part-in-nato-exercise-in-bulgaria-in-may-june-2019/ https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/05/13/6000-military-personnel-to... [4] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/15/raf-fighters-intercept-two-russian-bombers-near-uk-airspace https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/15/raf-fighters-i...