McCain calls for cyberdar over Russia

Republican Senator John McCain wrote in his new book that the United States should seriously consider cyber attacks in response to Russian interference in the American elections in order to decisively state their position. Defense News reported on the content of the book that was not yet published, writes Voice of America.

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“I believe that if Russian President Vladimir Putin is not compelled to regret his decision, he will return to the crime scene again and again,” wrote McCain, a prominent senator from Arizona, currently struggling with brain cancer.

According to Defense News, a McCain book titled "The Unrelenting Wave" (The restless wave) will be released in print 22 May.

According to McCain, although sanctions and trade restrictions on Putin and his friends are constraining factors, “in order to make Putin greatly regret his attack on the basis of our democracy — free and fair elections — you must seriously think about a retaliatory strike with the same weapon.”

“We also have cyber opportunities. It is necessary to use them in order to expose the gigantic scale of corruption of his regime or otherwise compromise Putin, ”the senator writes.

According to McCain, it's time for America to go on the offensive in the information war with Russia.

Throughout the book, McCain stresses the need for a decisive foreign policy that uses alliances to the maximum and promotes Western values ​​as morally superior.

Developed by President Donald Trump, “America First” approach he calls “imprudent” and repeating the mistakes of Barack Obama’s foreign policy.

“I’m worried that we are at a turning point, at a turning point in history, and decisions taken tomorrow may end the era when America was in the lead in the world,” McCain writes. - I hope that this does not happen. Definitely not too late. But my time in this fight has come to an end. ”

About Trump McCain wrote: “He refuses to distinguish between the actions of our government and the crimes of despotic regimes. Apparently, the appearance of stiffness is more important than any of our values. ”

McCain doesn’t share Trump’s view that Russia could be an ally of the United States. “Putin is not our partner, he has never been and never will be,” wrote the senator.

McCain regrets the fact that Putin has managed to achieve the objectives of interference in the elections, causing damage to the Hillary Clinton campaign and contributing to the dysfunction of the US government.

“Every day he sees his success in our quarrels and intractable contradictions,” writes the senator.

Calling Trump's flirting with Putin “naivety and general frivolous perception of Putin’s antagonism against American interests and values,” McCain notes that the accusations of ties with Russia are worrying, but he “has no idea which of them is true.”

“But I doubted that Trump or his assistants actively contributed to the Russian intervention,” he writes. “And I definitely did not want to believe that the Kremlin could get dirt on the American president.”

In his book, McCain also refutes claims by the Russian state channel Russia Today that he hates Russia.

“I do not hate Russia. I want her to have the same freedom, justice, and prosperity as the Americans. But I hate Putin, ”McCain writes, calling the Russian leader a“ villainous man. ”

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