Biden Gets Played by Putin and Adviser Has to Clean up the Mess
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/202...-and-adviser-has-to-clean-up-the-mess-n396264
Putin proposed the concept of giving up cybercriminals to the U.S. if the U.S. would agree to do the same.
From Fox News:
“If we agree on the extradition of criminals, then Russia will naturally do that but only if the other side, in this case, the United States, agrees to the same and will also extradite corresponding criminals to the Russian Federation,” Putin said according to Russian news agency TASS.
“In an overwhelming majority of cases, they are equitable. Both sides assume equal commitments,” he continued.
Now there are two traps in this proposal: one, that it’s Russian criminals behind these cybercrimes, not us. We’ve been attacked by multiple ransomware attacks, hitting everything from the Colonial Pipeline to our meat supply. Nothing happens on this scale without acquiescence from Putin. That’s what Biden should be saying and pressing Putin on, we should be saying we have your number and will hold you responsible. Agreeing to this proposal makes it seem like this is some kind of equitable situation when they’re the ones harboring and/or utilizing the criminals. It immediately downplays who the actual bad actors are here. On top of that, agreeing to turn over people that Russia wants is a very bad precedent to start, because Russia makes up crimes against its political enemies. If Biden did that, he would be agreeing to turn over Americans to the Russians. You don’t want to go down that road, an incredibly bad idea.
But Biden, who already revealed how out of it he was, fell right for it, saying sure, he was open and indicating he thought this was a “good sign.”