If Putin wanted to bring about a total shit storm in the US, could he have done "better"

[Xolodno]

9. Well comrade...

The USA has a long history of messing with elections during the Cold War...and Regime Change afterwards, we are not the moral authority here.

Yes, few consequences. We can boycott everything from Russia...including Russian Standard Vodka (thought I was going to say Stolichnaya?)..and nothing will change, given Putin has made sure they have no reliance on the USA

And yes, we still need to engage with Russia. On matters with Iran, Syria, China, North Korea, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Venezuela, Cuba, Afghanistan, etc.

Oh and, there are very few treaties when it comes to cyber warfare...because, we do a lot of it ourselves. Add to that, we do a lot of information collection on our own populace, let alone foreign countries. Even corporations quietly do espionage on their rivals and there is little governance. So...nothing happens.

When Israel sent a virus to Iran to compromise their Nuke program, if we used your definition, constitutes as an act of war....and Iran would be justified in responding. Yeah, that would put us in a very uncomfortable position at the UN.

None of this is cut and dry.