I have been saying, and I repeat it now, that Russian hacking of our electoral process is something we should own. We earned it, by leaving the dm cyber door wide open. “We handed you a gun and put our head down in front of the barrel, but you shouldn’t have pulled the trigger!” Well, true enough, but the whole thing could have been averted if we hadn’t handed them the gun in the first place. The law refers to this as … well, I forget the term. I remember the example, from a college course 30 years ago: somebody parks illegally on a street, then someone else swerves around the illegally parked car and does some property damage in the process. The person who parked illegally gets the blame, for precipitating the whole thing. I’m not trying to start a legal debate (Dershowitz, don’t get up), just saying, we could just suck it up, close the open cyber doors, and thereby avoid global tension. Meanwhile we stop doing business with them. If Russia can’t do business with the US, it hurts them much more than it hurts us.