The Brink of War?

[StevieWonders]

Possibly even more impacting is the fact that Putin's actions have just given the "Green Light" to every free nation on Earth to impose whatever sanctions they want on Russia without having to justify their actions to anyone. It appears that the Russian people are already aware of this, and not too happy.

With Dodgems so keen to talk about "free nations", perhaps he should put that in the context of the latest Freedom House assessment of Thailand - the country where our Dodgems (founder member of the Forum bookburners) has chosen to live is not a free country and is falling down the rankings. https://freedomhouse.org/country/tha...dom-world/2021

[latintopxxx]

...no one cares about Ukraine...sorry...thats the truth...without Russian gas/oil Europe will freeze to death within a week...

[cdnmatt]

...no one cares about Ukraine...sorry...thats the truth...without Russian gas/oil Europe will freeze to death within a week...

Who shit in your cornflakes today?

[Moses]

33% drop in the Russian stocket market before they halted trading, 10.5% drop in Rubles, dozens of anti-war protests across Russia with over 1700 arrests, massive international condemnation and sanctions, et al.

33% of market - western investors run from western sanctions and withdrew investments... they will be substituted by middle easterns and Chinese

-10,5% drop in rubles are today +5% and will continue... speculations

protesters - yes, like protests during Vietnam war in USA they will demonstrate presence of democracy here... and like in USA there will be a lot of police...

by the way: Ukrainian state bonds yesterday was 37-55% from nominal price, and for to serve state debt Ukraine now pays 186% of interest...

[Moses]

I'm just curious as to what the upcoming civil war in Ukraine will look like. Iraq didn't exactly have the backing of the West in this manner, so this should be interesting.

like last 8 years in Donbas...

[StevieWonders]

Hacker collective Anonymous has disabled several Russian government websites including the state-controlled "Russia Today" news service.

• RT has been described as a major propaganda outlet for the Russian government
• The DDoS attack flooded the news website with malicious traffic, blocking access for at least several hours
• It is the first attack in an expected wave of "cyber activism" against the Russian government
• Hackers identifying with the Anonymous collective announced they had launched cyber operations that briefly took down RT.com, as well as the websites of the Kremlin, the Russian government and the Russian defence ministry websites.

RT.com confirmed the attack took place, saying it slowed some websites down while taking others offline for "extended periods of time".

[cdnmatt]

I love how people like to call that hacking.

That's not hacking. That's firing up a botnet.

[Moses]

Hacker collective Anonymous has disabled several Russian government websites including the state-controlled "Russia Today" news service.

• RT has been described as a major propaganda outlet for the Russian government
• The DDoS attack flooded the news website with malicious traffic, blocking access for at least several hours
• It is the first attack in an expected wave of "cyber activism" against the Russian government
• Hackers identifying with the Anonymous collective announced they had launched cyber operations that briefly took down RT.com, as well as the websites of the Kremlin, the Russian government and the Russian defence ministry websites.

RT.com confirmed the attack took place, saying it slowed some websites down while taking others offline for "extended periods of time".

In 2012 they hacked FBI
in 2015 Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, The New York Times, and BBC New
in 2020 UN

they are quite skilled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(hacker_group)

[StevieWonders]

In 2012 they hacked FBI
in 2015 Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, The New York Times, and BBC New
in 2020 UN

they are quite skilled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(hacker_group)

From stories I've read today, there's been an expectation that one of Putin's responses to Western sanctions will be Russian hackers attacking Western government and business sites. It seems that everyone and anyone on both sides can play that game

[Moses]

From stories I've read today, there's been an expectation that one of Putin's responses to Western sanctions will be Russian hackers attacking Western government and business sites. It seems that everyone and anyone on both sides can play that game

RT case isn't real hacking - hackers hacks few tens of thousands of ordinary computers in homes and small companies that are without any protection and then just send requests to attacked website. Server can't answer to such amount of requests and going down. SGT also is under such attack from time to time.

By the way: now you see how "correct" were Western mass-media and govts in accusation of Russia in attacks of Anonymous Group and their links to FSB and Kremlin.