It was almost four decades ago when the world awoke to the reality that electronic surveillance was done by more than the inept and cowardly security apparatuses of the so-called liberal democracies which spied on their own people by tapping their telephone lines on behalf of the Jewish masters they were serving. It turned out that those democracies were also spying wireless on other nations via the medium of the ether.
The proof of this, came out as
a result of a tragedy. It happened when a South Korean airliner strayed into
Soviet airspace and was shot down by a warplane. When the airliner proved to be
a civilian flight, the Soviets said they would not have shot it had they known
it was civilian. But then the United States surprised the world when it played
a recording of the conversation that took place between the military pilot and
the ground command during which it was decided to shoot the plane whether it
was civilian or military. America was shown to spy on Soviet military
communications that long ago.
The need to know what other
individuals, institutions and countries are thinking and doing, turned out to
be a very big concern for which big budgets were and continue to be allocated.
And while most of the operations were done in a clandestine manner, the
Americans thought they had a system of governance so divine, they could go to
other countries, teach them how to run their affairs and ask their citizens to
report on what their governments were doing. In fact, when the Egyptians
discovered that the Americans were running this kind of bordello in Egypt, they
kicked the Americans out, and angered them no end.
As science and technology
advanced, cyber-spying and cyber-influencing, propelled the dirty business to a
much higher and much deadlier level than before. And as usual, the Americans
thought they had the best system of governance and the most advanced
technological innovations, to act as masters of the universe. But then, they
woke up one day to the reality that they were well behind their big and small
rivals.
Stunned by this development,
America's politicos started to point fingers at each other, which prompted
pundits of every stripe to come out their hiding places and give the usual
two-bit advice that will most likely do nothing to advance the cause of
America. The latest two such articles were published a day apart in The
Washington Times.
One article came under the
title: “Cyberattack on US government is just part of a vast and ignored Russian
threat.” It was written by Rebekah Koffler and published on December 31, 2020.
The other article came under the title: “SolarWinds cyberattack demands US
enact a long-overdue deterrent strategy.” It was published on January 1, 2021.
The contribution to the debate
of Russian-speaking Rebekah Koffler, has been to say: I told you so! In fact,
she had been warning for years that Russia was preparing for war against
America. The revelation of the latest cyberattack on America's institutions,
gave her the perfect excuse to claim vindication. And so, she repeated the old
warnings, even elaborated on them this time.
Not only did she draw on her
knowledge of Russia's mode of operations in such matters to make her point, she
also relied on what highly placed Americans in the security apparatus have been
warning. Here is a sample of what she reported in this regard:
“A close reading of
unclassified, Russian-language sources has convinced me that Russia expects war
with the US and is preparing for it. We heard a lot from US leaders about
Russia's cyber warfare prowess. Former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden
called Putin's intervention in 2016 presidential elections the 'most successful
covert influence campaign in the history of covert influence campaigns.'
General Philip Breedlove, referring to Moscow's employment of cyber operations
during the invasion of Ukraine, marveled at the most amazing information
warfare blitzkrieg … in the history of information warfare'”.
And so, while Rebekah Koffler
is saying that America and Russia will sooner or later be in a hot war, you
have Jed Babbin saying that those two nations are already in a Cold War. He
went on to explain his thinking as follows:
“Some equate cyberattacks with
acts of war. That's not right. Acts of war take lives or cause damage to
infrastructure. The Russian attack was intended to intimidate, conduct
espionage, steal intellectual property but not kill or damage infrastructure
upon which we depend”.
Being in a Cold War, says Jed
Babbin, America ought to deal with the situation the way it did the previous
Cold War. That is, America must create a system of deterrence to revive the
concept of the Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) that kept the peace for several
decades.
To that end, he proposed a
regime of deterrence in four steps that would go as follows:
First, we counterattack the
network the attacker used and those on which we can inflict greater harm.
Second, we should extend our
retaliation in behalf of essential commercial activities.
Third, the president should
publicly state our doctrine of retaliation.
Fourth, we should publicly
name which foreign agencies and individuals are responsible for such attacks.
The moral of this true story is that when the Jew asks the government of a liberal democracy to do him a favor the size of a mousy finger, he is already thinking how to turn the mouse into a King Kong.