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We’ve spent too long asleep , erroneously believing that we had ‘dealt’ with Russia ☹️

Agreed - a big mistake to think that everything was settled with the end of the soviet era; the threat is still here, just different agents of hostility. On top of it all, the MSM on both sides of the Atlantic insist on fawning like giddy teenagers over Russian assets like Trump and Farage.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

How does this level of hostile activity compare to that of the Cold War in, say, the early 1980s? I'm not an expert but it looks more intense. Maybe because opportunities are greater today?

Well, in the Irish case it wasn’t really sabotage. It was attempted fraud - a large scale ransomware attack on the health system. I suppose given the fact that Russia is a kleptocracy out doesn’t make a difference, but the attackers were not state actors. Technically astute but otherwise stupid.