America has retaliated... sort of. Not by direct cyber attack, but with sanctions, which have made business impossible for companies like HP and Microsoft.
If your organization gets attacked you may be able to recover from backups. If your organization's primary service provider dumps you, now you have to completely rebuild everything.
To put it another way, Russia abused computer infrastructure to attack countries that it's not at war with... so America just took away the infrastructure.
That’s cool n shit but I want to see America assert as much overt and covert pressure as possible, short of a shooting war. It’s time to show the blyats our collective, Western might.
Putin can't possibly think he'll win if the West as a whole goes to war with him, right? If he does, he's crazy enough to think he can win a nuclear war.
It's all covert stuff for a reason. He knows that Western countries won't respond with nukes against covert actions, especially if those covert actions are indirectly meant to prop up the pro-Putin parties in those countries.
That's why, although I'm in no way a fan of Macron, I love that he has put the idea out of at the very least starting to put boots on the ground.
At the end of that war, we can not permit it to be in the form of Ukraine losing even an inch of landmass. Because then in 5-10 years, Putin will just do the same thing again, maybe not in Ukraine, but elsewhere.
The only way to stop Putins madness is by making every thing he does cost him dearly.