look, sorry for the sarcasm. After reading your comment history it's clear that you like to entertain speculation about world events and the like. W.r.t. your

look, sorry for the sarcasm. After reading your comment history it's clear that you like to entertain speculation about world events and the like. W.r.t. your comment history, as someone who also has a family member with a medical background (my father is a surgeon), let me just say that there's not a law of nature that says that doctors are infallible - even if they're family. Anyway it's been abundantly obvious to anyone paying attention that Russia would retaliate with cyber warfare. I saw many such blurbs about this on NPR before sanctions were even placed but it's common knowledge that this is in Russia's playbook. At the very least because of the interference in the 2016 election.