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Norris2k on 22 September 2016
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Machiavellian said:
Norris2k said:

Especially when she talks about replying by military means to Russia's supposed hacking, and blaming them for about anything, this is pure madness. That not becoming a major topic for newspaper really proves they are leashed. And she's alone on this, because wether it's Trump, Jill Stein, or Gary Johnson, they seems to have a much more realistic approach when dealing with a major nuclear weapon state.

Does this statement sound like she is advocating military action as in ground troops but cybertroops

"We need to respond to evolving threats from states like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea," Clinton said in the speech. "We need a military that is ready and agile so it can meet the full range of threats and operate on short notice across every domain – not just land, sea, air and space but also cyberspace."

Are you 2 stating that our military should not be capable of handling and responding to cyberattacks and should not treat those threats as if they were harmfull to theUS.  If any one of those countries knockout our infratstructure, banks, city and local government through cyberattacks how do you think we should respond?

What I'm refering to is "Russia is even hacking in the Democratic National Commity. Maybe even some state elections. So we have to step up our game. Make sure we are well defended, and ready to take the fight to those that go after us. [...] We will be ready with serious political, economical and military responses.". Even if you imply that this cyber counter attack, you do not make a bold statement about military answer to Russia.

USA is hacking a lot of countries, wikileaks proved even close allies like germany and France, and certainly Russia and China. Do you want them to take military measures, including cyber attacks ? That's now how it works, we are talking about cyber espionnage, everyone do it, everyone has to protect itself against it, and that's just how the game is.

Here she specifically point at espionnage and leaks from Russia, which as far as I know is not even proven, and which should not lead to any military response. Because how do you think Russia would react to a military response ? We are talking about ending the world here, that's totally crazy.

If a country knockout anything, that is an act of war, this is China/Russia or whatever declaring war on USA. This should be not linked in the same speech with DNC hacking, which is a whole different topic.