...McMaster said the case against Moscow was clear.
“As you can see with FBI indictment, the evidence is incontrovertible and available in the public domain,” he said at the Munich Security Conference, one of the biggest annual gatherings of security and defense policymakers and experts. “Whereas in the past it was difficult to attribute … now this is in the arena of law enforcement investigation, it’s going to be very apparent to everyone.”
He said Russia’s attempts to “pit Western societies against each other” have failed and ended up “uniting all of our polities against Russia.” Moscow will therefore have to reevaluate what it’s doing as “it’s just not working,” he said.
“It’s quite difficult to pass bipartisan legislation across our parties at the moment, except in one case, which is sanctions against Russia, where the vote was 98-2,” McMaster said. “That was made possible mainly by Russia itself and Russians themselves in engaging in this campaign of political subversion.”
McMaster was responding to a question from the audience at the conference about a potential Russia-U.S. cyber dialogue.
“I’m surprised there are any Russia cyber experts available based on how active most of them have been in undermining our democracies in the West,” McMaster said. “We’d love to have a cyber dialogue when Russia is sincere about curtailing its sophisticated form of espionage.”
“I think that day will be coming because we’re becoming more and more adept at tracing the origins of this espionage and subversion.”
“As you can see with FBI indictment, the evidence is incontrovertible and available in the public domain,” he said at the Munich Security Conference, one of the biggest annual gatherings of security and defense policymakers and experts. “Whereas in the past it was difficult to attribute … now this is in the arena of law enforcement investigation, it’s going to be very apparent to everyone.”
He said Russia’s attempts to “pit Western societies against each other” have failed and ended up “uniting all of our polities against Russia.” Moscow will therefore have to reevaluate what it’s doing as “it’s just not working,” he said.
“It’s quite difficult to pass bipartisan legislation across our parties at the moment, except in one case, which is sanctions against Russia, where the vote was 98-2,” McMaster said. “That was made possible mainly by Russia itself and Russians themselves in engaging in this campaign of political subversion.”
McMaster was responding to a question from the audience at the conference about a potential Russia-U.S. cyber dialogue.
“I’m surprised there are any Russia cyber experts available based on how active most of them have been in undermining our democracies in the West,” McMaster said. “We’d love to have a cyber dialogue when Russia is sincere about curtailing its sophisticated form of espionage.”
“I think that day will be coming because we’re becoming more and more adept at tracing the origins of this espionage and subversion.”
