And if All that is Not Terrifying Enough . . .

 

And just in case the news of imminent war is not terrifying enough, you can read Dmitri Alperovitch's thread* on the impending economic war, ruinous to all sides.  And in case that is not terrifying enough, he now has a new thread no where that can lead.  He warns first, that Western leaders are ready to slap Russian with severe economic sanctions, but not ready for retaliation (discussed in his previous thread). If that does not persuade us to back down, he warns, the Russians will mostly likely escalate to massive cyber attacks.  We naturally will retaliate.  And ever-escalating cyber warfare can even lead to an actual war.

Terrifying!

PS:  On the other hand, this may be overly alarmist. It seems much more likely that once it becomes clear that sanctions involve some pain for us, they will gradually collapse well short of all-out cyber war, let alone a shooting war.

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*Dmitri Alperovitch is the founder of Crowdstrike, the cyber security firm that first found the Russians had hacked the DNC server.