history here. i would continue to be very worried if i were a ukrainian at the moment. in terms of why it matters to us, it s because we don t want an international system where nations decide what their neighbors are going to do under force of lethal weapons. what i mean by that is it s fine to have views about what your neighbors ought to do. you ought to communicate those diplomatically. you ought to incentive advise or deincentive advise but that is different than your tanks rolling across borders. i ll close on this. watch for cyber. watch for a significant cyber attack. courtney was correct to bring up this dichotomy. about a week ago you saw russia launch kind of a mild cyber attack at the same time russia shut down a group of these ransomware hackers that brought us the colonial pipeline hack.
held ambitions back years for vladimir putin. why is he sparked this crisis now? it is because joe biden has projects weakness to him for last year, and appeased him, he gave away the store in his first week in office on one sided nuclear arms control treaty, he waived sanction on pipeline, he looked other way on colonial pipeline hack, and released a russia cyber criminal early at request of russia. and it is that series of appease am, and weakness over the last year that caused vladimir putin to think that now is the time to go for the jugular in ukraine. mark: do you think vladimir putinnk is impressed with most of the season why are brass at pentagon after afghanistan? i don t: know what his view of our senior military or intelligence leaders
The Russia-based REvil gang has carried out numerous attacks on major global companies, including the July attack on software provider Kaseya and the May attack on the world’s biggest meat-processing business, JBS. Former REvil associates also are believed to be responsible for the May cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline that led to gas shortages on the U.S. East Coast.