The USA is now officially a friend of Russia

[thewayne]

Ignoring the fiasco of Friday's Oval Office meeting between the weird old felon, Mascara Lad, and the Honorable President of Ukraine, the Secretary of Trying To Claim He's SoberDefense just gave Putin a lap dance and the cyber keys to the USA.

He ordered the U.S. military Cyber Command to ignore attacks and incursions from Russia. Allegedly the order states that they are to “stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.”

So that's it. With the exception of the NSA, the nation has no cyber defense against Russian attack.

If we ever needed any proof that there are traitors to the nation in the highest echelons of government, you don't have to look any further.

Benedict Arnold, we've got three new names to join you in infamy.

https://gizmodo.com/trumps-defense-secretary-hegseth-orders-cyber-command-to-stand-down-on-all-russia-operations-2000570343

Comments

[richardf8]

I have rant. Here is the rant:

America voted for this. America voted for this. America voted for this. And don't you dare squinch at the numbers and say "well if you look at it like this, he didn't receive a majority of the votes," because he received enough to put him over the top, and in America, that's all that counts, and don't you dare say to me "this isn't who we are," because clearly, it is, and don't you dare say to me that Biden can pardon Cheney, because pardons are for people who committed crimes, and why in the hell would you suppose that Trump would honor such a pardon anyway?

At least Germany had the excuse of a lousy economy when they elevated Hitler, but we had the best economy in the world, the lowest rate of inflation, and we chose kayfabe over it. We chose "move fast and break stuff" over peace and prosperity.

Biden had his chance. He could have used emergency powers for the purpose for which they exist in the first place, but no, he wanted to "heal America's soul" instead. So he entrusted our fate to a Justice system into which Republicans had been throwing sand for decades and was derelict in his duty to "protect and defend the Constitution from threats foreign and domestic." He thought he could undo the work of 40 years of an opioid addicted gasbag screaming unsubstantiated vitriol into a microphone by creating a few jobs?!?! It's no accident that Rush Limbaugh received the Iron Cross, er, "Presidential Medal of Freedom" from Trump.

And for crying out loud, stop thinking we can get anywhere by imitating Ghandi or King. Their tactics worked only because people were capable of outrage then. Now, they just pop popcorn and cheer on the oppressors.

This is who we are. This is what we did. What you do with that is up to you, but this is what America is.

That was my rant. It is also why I cannot muster any new outrage for each fresh offense the administration commits.

[thewayne]

Yeah, the outrage tank is pretty much dry.  The rich people won, and now they're dismantling 250 years of democracy and the USA.  No idea what comes next, but I think I can confidently say it won't be pretty.

[disneydream06]

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why are they even pretending to be the government of the States of America.
They are an Fing puppet regime.
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

That's the size of it.  Puppets and traitors.

[silveradept]

That seems like one of the orders where someone says "of course" and ignores the order as being unlawful and dangerous. The only way he's going to know is if someone admits to him they've been trying to hack the systems in question and been repulsed by the defenses in place. Can't imagine anyone actually would say that out loud.

And maybe much later, they will stand a court-martial for disobeying an unlawful and dangerous order, but in the meantime, they take their oath seriously and keep things safe.

[bibliofile]

> That seems like one of the orders where someone says "of course" and ignores the order as being unlawful and dangerous.

We can hope.

The thing that stands out to me is it shows how much Tr*mp and V*nce don't understand how that part of national security works. Countries gather intelligence on everyone all of the time -- even allies, in peacetime. It never stops. Ceasing those activities with regards to a particular country is stupid, and stopping with a sometimes adversary? OMFG.

(I am not an intelligence expert, but even *I* know this shit. Even from novels and movies, and watching the news occasionally. Holy crap.)

[thewayne]

I'm very curious if our Five Eyes partners and other 'allies' are now filtering or about to start filtering what intelligence they are sharing with the USA.

[silveradept]

They admitted to doing so during the last time he was in office because they suspected he or his were letting it all out to the Russians, and given that the campaign donor's people put in the clear something marked as not for foreign nationals, I'm guessing that not only does his briefing lack important details and materials, intelligence shared with the country is being compartmentalized so that he and his can't actually get at it or know it exists.

[moxie_man]

That's in insult! At least BA was loyal to the USA for a short-time. I can't say that for the Putin/Musk puppets in-charge now.

[thewayne]

That is true.  As I recall, he was an Army officer.  My profound apologies to you and BA.