Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Surly Horns

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Russia and American elections, now featuring radical republicans as co-stars

Featured Replies

  • Replies 1.9k
  • Views 145.3k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Most Popular Posts

  • If I were Putin, I'd be a little worried that Trump thinks my invasion plan is "genius."

  • I think most people you call “left” on this board would agree with you. In fact, I would say the majority of the “liberals” on this board gripe often about Democrats being pussies that never get shit

  • Creasy Bear
    Creasy Bear

    My question is simple.  Why is Biden against domestic oil & gas production but is for increased oil & gas production overseas?

Posted Images

If you're the little punk and the big bully has a cast on his leg and a case of the flu, do you take your shot and try to knock him out? China and Russia may decide that now is the time.

Edited by retread

murderous bully nation, has been for 100 years. Ronald Reagan right on this one, so is John McCain.

5 minutes ago, retread said:

If you're the little punk and the big bully has a cast on his leg and a case of the flu, do you take your shot and try to knock him out? China and Russia may decide that now is the time.

I think they would consider that rude.  They are more about exploiting vulnerabilities and letting us do the heavy lifting in destroying ourselves. 

we underrate ourselves economically and militarily. Nothing can destroy the US, not even Americans. We are God on Earth and have been for a long time. 

1 minute ago, Orca of Peace said:

we underrate ourselves economically and militarily. Nothing can destroy the US, not even Americans. We are God on Earth and have been for a long time. 

Nonsense.

There's no such thing as an invincible nation.  Ask Rome.

nothing in human history can match American firepower, industrial base, resources and tech supremacy.

Oh, Danny, this isn’t Russia. Is this Russia? This isn’t Russia, is it? I didn’t think so.

To this point, it's mostly been cyber reconnaissance, but there is an end game. For the Chinese, it might be 100 years out. I'm not so sure about Putin...

Compared to other empires, we've just about reached the average life span. Doubt the states would ever be broken up, but we can def be knocked off our pedestal.

8 minutes ago, Orca of Peace said:

nothing in human history can match American firepower, industrial base, resources and tech supremacy.

Which is probably why we’re being attack via cyber subversion, information warfare, espionage, and hacking the infrastructure.  

20 minutes ago, Orca of Peace said:

we underrate ourselves economically and militarily. Nothing can destroy the US, not even Americans. We are God on Earth and have been for a long time. 

The sun never sets on the British Empire.

Wait.

20 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Which is probably why we’re being attack via cyber subversion, information warfare, espionage, and hacking the infrastructure.  

and China is laying the groundwork to fuck us financially.

20 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Which is probably why we’re being attack via cyber subversion, information warfare, espionage, and hacking the infrastructure.  

and the economy is soaring with more open positions than people 

32 minutes ago, Orca of Peace said:

nothing in human history can match American firepower, industrial base, resources and tech supremacy.

Donald trump is the president 

1 minute ago, JimmyJames said:

Donald trump is the president 

exactly, that's how powerful we are. We essentially have a dumbass coaching the 1992 Dream Team (no offense to Chuck Daly RIP). 

3 minutes ago, Orca of Peace said:

and the economy is soaring with more open positions than people 

The Obama economy is doing alright. It's not soaring, though. A soaring economy has rising wages and a higher participation rate.

If the US is crippled by losing electrical power and economic chaos, the world economy will tumble with it. The notion of conquering or destroying a major country is counterproductive. In the Cold War, I began to wonder what the Soviet Union would gain by rolling the tanks over Europe and imposing communism. Seems like they'd destroy everything of value and have more states draining them rather than making them wealthy.

This whole alternative means of attack to undermine confidence within and without the US seems to be a play to gain soft power as we forfeit it. Influence is the prize.

To point to our tanks and aircraft carriers and giant army in confidence that they will guarantee the status quo remains is naive. We've proven over and over that the hammer of the military isn't the best tool for most international issues and conflicts. But we always tell ourselves that it's still WWII and we're fighting Hitler. The world will love us when we kill our way to another shining victory.

Idiot World.

35 minutes ago, retread said:

I've posted this a few times, but only b/c it's a great interview. David Sanger on cyber security and how vulnerable we are.

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621338178/journalist-warns-cyber-attacks-present-a-perfect-weapon-against-global-order

We were made vunerable when a close ally fucked our NSA Operation Olympic Games and Stuxnet was discovered by Kasparsky.  

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13535210-confront-and-conceal

Thanks for re posting that interview.

 

29 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

If the US is crippled by losing electrical power and economic chaos, the world economy will tumble with it. The notion of conquering or destroying a major country is counterproductive. In the Cold War, I began to wonder what the Soviet Union would gain by rolling the tanks over Europe and imposing communism. Seems like they'd destroy everything of value and have more states draining them rather than making them wealthy.

This whole alternative means of attack to undermine confidence within and without the US seems to be a play to gain soft power as we forfeit it. Influence is the prize. 

I'm sure there are things we could be doing to shore up our cyber security, but we're consumed with everything besides that.

Paper ballots in elections would go a long way to protect the ballot box. I'm sure we have the intellectual capabilities to safeguard nuclear facilities and power grids, but we just don't seem to be doing it.

Edited by retread

24th post.

We probably already have the ability to do this to them and anybody else

Only the best hackers....

They've already hacked into the basis for a functioning democracy, albeit without changing any votes. What if large blocks of the power grid go out and banks are disrupted?

I'm not sure it's as simple as mutually assured damage/destruction.

i am sure the feeble US military has no plans to attack Russia if they take down our power grid. 

3 hours ago, Pancho Negro said:

Seriously when will some fucks wake the fuck up?!?

 

If they take out communication satellites - and Millennial can't text or Instagram or Tinder, they'll surrender to anyone in return for their access to the interwebs.

3 hours ago, Pancho Negro said:

Seriously when will some fucks wake the fuck up?!?

 

I read about this earlier in the week. This comment, “They got to the point where they could have thrown switches” said Jonathan Homer, chief of industrial control system analysis for DHS." caused a small ruckus in the ICS Security community. DHS was exaggerating by making this statement. There were comprised HMI systems and work stations that display historian info graphics. The ICS systems themselves were not impacted. It's not possible to "throw switches" from peripheral work stations which reside on a separate and less secure network.

The Senate testimony on this issue was interesting but pretty useless. Congress will roll out the dog and pony show but do nothing to address the problems. I also got a feeling that this was more about politics than a desire to strengthen our national security posture.

 

2 hours ago, Orca of Peace said:

nothing in human history can match American firepower, industrial base, resources and tech supremacy.

Trump is scared to death of Putin.  

Putin is the guy that will punch the bully right in the nose.  

Trump knows it and doesn't want to play with people that will hit back.  

52 minutes ago, Laga4 said:

Trump is scared to death of Putin.  

Putin is the guy that will punch the bully right in the nose.  

Trump knows it and doesn't want to play with people that will hit back.  

both guys are bullies, but I agree that Trump is intimidated. Good thing for America is we have capable men in uniform (and others) behind Trump who will do the practical to safeguard any credible threat.  IMO what we see at high level meetings are superficial, when powers engage we have hundreds of people in nameless agencies that move the mountains. 

If truth and the rule of law are nonexistent, our armies might as well be defending China or Russia.

15 hours ago, TexArcher said:

Nonsense.

There's no such thing as an invincible nation.  Ask Rome.

That was an empire, and they always fail.

18 hours ago, Pancho Negro said:

Seriously when will some fucks wake the fuck up?!?

 

Welp, better grab a generator or two before them dang things get priced out, after the grid is busted...

The good thing is there are 3 different grids (mostly) 1 east coast/ 1 west coast/ and 1 that covers most of Texas...

2 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

That was an empire, and they always fail.

What do you think America is?

On July 28, 2018 at 7:14 PM, Orca of Peace said:

nothing in human history can match American firepower, industrial base, resources and tech supremacy.

And yet we've proven incapable of defeating a bunch of third worlders living in caves and mud huts. 

Another thing to be concerned about is politicians taking a softer public stance on Russia for fear they might be specifically targeted in election interference campaigns.

You will never know this happening but I’d be weary of any elected official taking an unusual soft stance on Russia or overly downplaying what they’ve done. 

Edited by Hugo Stiglitz

10 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Another thing to be concerned about is politicians taking a softer public stance on Russia for fear they might be specifically targeted in election interference campaigns.

You will never know this happening but I’d be weary of any elected official taking an unusual soft stance on Russia or overly downplaying what they’ve done. 

You really are going down the rabbit hole aren't you ? 

 
Which is why Russia doesn't make any military moves in our direction. They know they'd be obliterated. They aren't even sure if half of their equipment works or will work long enough to sustain any conflict of significant time.
6 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

You really are going down the rabbit hole aren't you ? 

What rabbit hole?

  It’s clear POTUS doesn’t publicly criticize Putin for fear of retaliation so...

 

On 7/29/2018 at 12:31 PM, Hugo Stiglitz said:

 

Well....that's fucking interesting, man.

Is that bad?  That seems bad.

Remember Rocko’s thread on shaggy asking why loony libe were so afraid of Russia?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

5 minutes ago, Grandioso said:

 

Remember Rocko’s thread on shaggy asking why loony libe were so afraid of Russia?

 

It’s hard to break through to some people that the Russia threat isn’t conventional military. 

The type of warfare they’re waging isn’t intended to get us to fight Russians on a battlefield. (we’d wipe the floor with them in that theater).

The Russians want Americans to fight each other enough to the point the whole system breaks down and we are governed by politicians beholden to Putin’s ideology instead of the American ideals.  

They’ve been working towards this for a long time and will continue to do this for the foreseeable future.  The only way to combat it is increase awareness and/or punch back.

14 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

It’s hard to break through to some people that the Russia threat isn’t conventional military. 

The type of warfare they’re waging isn’t intended to get us to fight Russians on a battlefield. (we’d wipe the floor with them in that theater).

The Russians want Americans to fight each other enough to the point the whole system breaks down and we are governed by politicians beholden to Putin’s ideology instead of the American ideals.  

They’ve been working towards this for a long time and will continue to do this for the foreseeable future.  The only way to combat it is increase awareness and/or punch back.

And they are cocky as fuck about their plans. They bragged about their new weapons being pointed at America a couple years ago at a cyber conference. They want to be seen as relevant again, post Obama, who downplayed their global presence most his Presidency. His biggest mistake of his term.  

Obama dropped the ball on Russia and Putin exploited it big time.  The biggest current problem with the Russia threat is people look at it through an Obama/Trump and election interference lens.

Trump supporters blame Obama for everything Russia got away with and they’re not entirely wrong.  

Democrats blame Trump for conspiring with Russia to take the White House and they’re not entirely wrong either.

The focus should be at pointing the big finger at Putin if we really want to deter him.

Putin’s biggest fear is being overthrown due to public opinion going so far south his people feel compelled to take action.

The best thing Americans can do is turn public opinion against Putin so loudly he becomes a pariah in his own country.  This is done by exposing all his crimes and corruption.

And we bring the traitors working for him to justice, of course. 

Also, US foreign policy towards Russia going forward should be CONTAINMENT.

Edited by Hugo Stiglitz

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.