Here’s the thing about these Russian hacks of U.S. government agencies

| 12:01 pm EST December 15, 2020
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With everything else that’s going on right now, it’s easy to overlook the news that Russian hackers managed to penetrate multiple U.S. government agencies – but we shouldn’t overlook it. Now that Putin has lost his puppet Trump, he appears to be reverting back to his previous methods of trying to sabotage us. Here’s the thing, though.

It’s easy to say that, well, now that Trump has lost, Putin has decided to start hacking us. It’s also easy to say that because Trump fired cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs and installed his own stooges at various agencies, perhaps it made us more vulnerable to attack. But none of that fits the timeline.

The reporting about these cyber attacks reveals that they occurred several months ago, and they were apparently only discovered just recently. So no, this Russian hacking isn’t in response to any recent developments.

Instead you have to ask yourself why Putin apparently decided to hack into our agencies back in the spring or summer. It was clear to Palmer Report back then that Trump was very likely to lose the election, so perhaps Putin saw it too, and decided to shift gears back then.

Still, this was a major risk for Putin. Now that he’s been caught, it lays the groundwork for the United States and its allies to hit Russia with the costliest of sanctions. Putin is already on thin ice with his oligarchs because his antics and the resulting punishment have cost them too much money. It’s gotten bad enough for Putin that he keeps leaking that he’s considering resigning due to supposed health issues, in a seeming attempt at making sure the oligarchs don’t simply bump him off.

Now Putin will have to weather whatever President Biden and U.S. allies are about to do to him. Putin had better hope that whatever intel he stole during the hacking was worth it to him, because it’s about to get ugly.