Russia’s unrepentant and unrelenting transgressions were already such that they provoked me to publish “To Reinforce Sanctions Against Lukashenko the Skyjacker and Vlad the Poisoner, Biden Must Cancel the Putin Summit!” May 27, 2021.
Then came this:
Microsoft says another wave of Russian cyber-attacks has targeted government agencies and human rights groups in 24 countries, most in the US.
It said about 3,000 email accounts at more than 150 different organisations had been attacked this week.
The group responsible was the same one that carried out last year’s SolarWinds attacks, which Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is accused of orchestrating, Microsoft said.
(The BBC, May 28, 2021)
Frankly, Biden meeting with Putin, despite Russia attacking his country so tauntingly, would smack of cuckoldry that makes Cruz meeting with Trump, despite Trump insulting his wife so wantonly, seem chivalrous.
Putin is clearly daring (or shaming) Biden to cancel their June Summit. Biden should make a public show not only of doing so, but of punishing Russia in ways that really hurt. This, for hacking US elections, government agencies, and business entities, to say nothing of ordering hits on dissidents abroad – all without serious consequences.
As for Alexei Navalny, well, what can he possibly do to get attention after a hunger strike that nearly killed him? Martyrdom next time…?
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