Bill Browder ponders:

[Leghorn21]

Link to tweet

I'd love to see how Putin and Co. are reacting to this right now....much worse than getting caught doping for the Winter Olympics

[NightWatcher]

1. Russia had/has two goals: 1. End the sanctions and free Putin's money up & 2. Cause chaos in the US

#1 isn't going to happen..... So it's time for #2.

I predict they'll burn their asset (trump) and leave him to twist in the wind. What are we (the US) going to do to them, increase sanctions?

[Leghorn21]

2. It's my (dim) understanding that if we tie up all Putin's and mobster buds' assets via seizure,

freezing $$ accounts and such, that that'll put the kibosh on their little laundering party...

[NightWatcher]

3. If Putin's money is out of reach for him, all heh has left to do is punish the US any way he can

And all he can do is hack our power grid and cause a Constitutional crisis here re: trump and the entire administration.

I expect him to expose trump and the whole gang just to cause trouble here.

[Leghorn21]

4. Well, crap. Harvard Business Review, May '17 (talking about power grid hacking)

We need innovative, systems-level thinking — and a sense of urgency — to mitigate the impact of a major cyberattack. And we need it now.

Crap. My mood just decelerated mightily.