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If Americans or American companies want to register a bunch of domains to promote their policy agenda and political opinion, that's totally fine with me. Even i

If Americans or American companies want to register a bunch of domains to promote their policy agenda and political opinion, that's totally fine with me. Even if it may be somewhat disingenuously designed to look grass roots. It's freedom of speech and I'm in total support of it. (Regardless of how ignorant and stupid it might be). If Russia is doing it to sow discord, that's an act of war in my opinion, and should be dealt with in the harshest, most severe way possible. It won't be, of course, because the President is a Putin lackey (or close enough to one to make no difference), but hopefully come January 20th of next year, we will have a different president who will protect the U.S. like he should.

thundergolfer 7y ago
So what exactly would the “harshest, most severe possible” actions be? Because when I hear someone say that in the context of war, my mind goes to some pretty severe actions. Would you sanction them? Maybe, but that’s hardly the “most severe”. This is war, after all. Would you missile strike Russia?
- Zenbit_UX 7y ago
  Direct action action on one military superpower from another doesn't happen anymore, not since the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Any such action would have unthinkable consequences for humanity. America's weapon of choice is economic devastation via sanctions, it can leverage its position in the world to convince its allies to follow suit for added effect. Russia, on the outside of NATO, is forced to play a more subtle game, sowing discord and long term instability.
- russellbeattie 7y ago
  Starting a conventional or nuclear war with Russia is in the "not possible" category. Sorry if it wasn't clear that I'm not totally insane. I am angry, however, and permanently dissuading Russian leaders from screwing with U.S. politics should be possible by both our intelligence services as well as overt policy. People will literally be dying in the U.S. because of this latest Russian misinformation campaign. If we had a capable leader in the White House, this would be acknowledged and dealt with appropriately.

thundergolfer 7y ago

So what exactly would the “harshest, most severe possible” actions be? Because when I hear someone say that in the context of war, my mind goes to some pretty severe actions. Would you sanction them? Maybe, but that’s hardly the “most severe”. This is war, after all. Would you missile strike Russia?

Zenbit_UX 7y ago
Direct action action on one military superpower from another doesn't happen anymore, not since the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Any such action would have unthinkable consequences for humanity. America's weapon of choice is economic devastation via sanctions, it can leverage its position in the world to convince its allies to follow suit for added effect. Russia, on the outside of NATO, is forced to play a more subtle game, sowing discord and long term instability.
russellbeattie 7y ago
Starting a conventional or nuclear war with Russia is in the "not possible" category. Sorry if it wasn't clear that I'm not totally insane. I am angry, however, and permanently dissuading Russian leaders from screwing with U.S. politics should be possible by both our intelligence services as well as overt policy. People will literally be dying in the U.S. because of this latest Russian misinformation campaign. If we had a capable leader in the White House, this would be acknowledged and dealt with appropriately.