The US military has issued a stunning but perhaps not entirely unexpected admission that it has been conducting offensive cyber operations in support of Ukraine. It marks the first ever such acknowledgement, and suggests – as many observers have long suspected – a deeper Pentagon and US intelligence role in Ukraine against the Russian military than previously thought.
National Security Agency (NSA) and US Cyber Command Director Gen. Paul Nakasone told the UK’s Sky News on Wednesday, “We’ve conducted a series of operations across the full spectrum: offensive, defensive, [and] information operations.” This includes “offensive hacking operations” he said.
Without offering specific details, he continued, “My job is to provide a series of options to the secretary of Defense and the president, and so that’s what I do.” Importantly, Gen. Nakasone gave the interview from allied Baltic country Estonia, from which other supporting operations including weapons transfers for Ukraine have come.
He spoke of major attempts of the Russians to launch infrastructurally devastating cyberattacks on Ukraine, saying, “And we’ve seen this with regards to the attack on their satellite systems, wiper attacks that have been ongoing, disruptive attacks against their government processes.”
“This is kind of the piece that I think sometimes is missed by the public. It isn’t like they haven’t been very busy, they have been incredibly busy. And I think, you know, their resilience is perhaps the story that is most intriguing to all of us,” he said, describing the Ukrainian response.
As for support the US has given Ukraine in the lead-up to the Russian invasion, the NSA director referenced the following:
Nakasone previously said his agency deployed a “hunt forward” team in December to help Ukraine shore up its cyber defenses and networks against active threats. But his latest remarks appear to be the first time that a U.S. official said publicly that the U.S. has been involved in offensive cyber operations in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
And like any powerful deep state insider of the intelligence community, he referenced alleged Kremlin attempts to influence US elections. “We had an opportunity to start talking about what particularly the Russians were trying to do in our midterm elections. We saw it again in 2020, as we talked about what the Russians and Iranians were going to do, but this was on a smaller scale.”
“The ability for us to share that information, being able to ensure it’s accurate and it’s timely and it’s actionable on a broader scale has been very, very powerful in this crisis,” he added in the interview.
Despite the whole Russian military and intelligence machine being currently entrenched and busy executing the over 3-month war in Ukraine, the American public is further being told Moscow is now eyeing ‘interference’ in the upcoming midterms next Fall.
According to The Hill: “Experts have warned that Russia will likely deploy its cyber operations in the 2022 midterm elections, which may take different forms, including disinformation campaigns and election hacking. The experts also said that Russia’s playbook is to divide the U.S. along party lines and suppress voter turnout.” However, it’s laughable to think that somehow it takes a foreign actor to “divide” the US “along party lines” – as if this is some new phenomenon.
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Paper Americans make the worst.
Look how many medals this lying jackass has on his uniform. Where’s that photo of Ike, 5 star general and supreme commander of Allied Forces in Europe during a real war with just one row of medals?
These pansy generals today haven’t done jack shit, but festoon themselves with medals and other hardware like the ostentatious, arrogant a-holes they are. Fat Milley does the same thing, and has the audacity to wear a WWII-era style uniform, to boot. Oh, please….
Also, if Russia wanted to completely take down the Ukraine’s infrastructure, it would’ve been done by now. Give me a break, Schmuckazone.
Idiots….do you think they will be around to help us when Russia shuts down our power grid.
-“when Russia shuts down our power grid”
Did you think Russia was the aggressor here? Watch MSM much?
No Russia was not the aggressor that’s the point…but they can and will be aggressive if they are pushed to far. Why play with fire!
The alphabet agencies will be the ones pulling the plug.
40 billion to this degenerate Khazar clown….smh
When your military hasn’t won a goddamned war in 70 years, when your soldiers are fat woke trannies, when you think sending women into combat is a good idea, when you realize that your weapons are shit compared to the enemy’s weapons, when your Big Dog leader is a diversity hire and dumber than whale shit, when you lie awake at night wondering if a hypersonic missile with your name on it will fly up your ass ……oh dear, when all this happens …. you have no choice but to play your trump card ====> CYBER OPS!!!
Remember children, when absolutely nothing else works, you can always bullshit the Rooskies into submission. (Hey … it works on Americans!)
What we have is cyberpoop compared to the Ruskies…let’s see how you feel when they shut our grid down…
Just another example of what many of us suspect coming true. We have a bunch of rats in positions of power in this country endangering all of us. Once again for the most corrupt country in Europe, The Ukraine……..
The most corrupt country in Europe is the USA.
A fitting counterpoint to the 30 blocks of squalor.
I’m no fan of Russia but like a retard with a sharp stick, these people (supposedly) in charge just keep poking the Bear, and as a result, we’re all going to’find out’ and pay the price…what better pretense for taking down the internet and/or invoking serious restrictions on its use because, “Russians!” It’s ludicrous to believe the Deep State won’t either a.) cause a serious response from Russia (e.g., a cyber event with major downside implications, and/or, b.) purposefully create any number of negative outcomes and blame it, again, on “Russia!” They’ve cried, “wolf!” so many times now that even IF it is the Russians, whose left to believe it? When in God’s name we will ever get leaders with gravitas and common sense again? It’s Romper Room in DC these days. Sad, sad state of affairs.
I wonder if the Russians might not seek to amuse themselves by opening the floodgates on reservoirs during the coming drought season? Mess up pipelines feeding power plants when it’s a hundred degrees etc.
How much of our high tech equipment becomes useless scrap if GPS is blocked or taken out in orbit? The military doesn’t teach land navigation any more. Sgt. Saunders and Lt. Hanley can’t get from A to B in 2022 without GPS. Twenty years ago a reserve sergeant acquaintance was being sent around attempting to teach land navigation to some reserve units. He said it was hopeless back then.
warfare but not a declaration of war, how do you think Russia sees this?
I expect the DOD to do the hacking. They are stupid to admit it.
fjb is worse than I thought.
Send field marshall sean “ATTENTION WHORE”penn back over there !
The little JACKOFF is our finest military leader…………next to FAGGOT admiral levine.
I pray that the nuclear exchange won’t be MAD. Maybe cooler heads will prevail after a few AmeriKan Urban Utopias are cleansed for some urban renewal.