US went to cyber attack on Russia

It took more than a year to form a stable view in society that Russia somehow interfered in the elections in the United States.

And now the American special services finally decided that it was time to go on the offensive and their cyber attack would not be regarded as an attack, but would be perceived as defensive actions.
The New York Times is not even embarrassed to put the thesis on the “first cyber attack against Russia” into the title of the article.
The publication specifically states that employees of the cyber subdivision, which is part of the structure of the Ministry of Defense, operating under the command of the National Security Agency (NSA) are trying not to provoke the Russian side to take retaliatory steps.
Allegedly, the whole essence of the “cyber attack” comes down to attempts to dissuade the Russians from trying to interfere in the elections to the US Congress, which will be held in November of this year.
But in reality, the scale of the US cyber division is much wider. The newspaper writes that operatives are also sent to a number of European states, where they must also provide cover for the "allies" from "hacker invasion."

    Moscow’s regular statements that the accusations of intervening in the American elections are, from the beginning to the end, a fictitious story, oddly enough, found confirmation in the same article.
The publication reports, with reference to its sources, that the US intelligence services do not predict computer hacking of vote counting systems or attempts to penetrate the servers of election commissions to fake the results of the vote.
All that the US cyber command is afraid of is that Russian “agents” will spread some misinformation on the Internet and thus will be able to influence public opinion in the United States.

    In a situation where the very essence of the pre-election process in the United States is an attempt by two opposing parties to influence public opinion, there will always be one who is not satisfied with the results of the vote.
And here, as well as possible, a well-established scheme of accusation of all the sins of an external opponent is suitable. It does not matter whether it is Russia, China or anyone else.
It turns out that all the accusations by the United States of interfering in their internal affairs and electoral processes do not require evidence, especially since there are none.
But they help to solve several strategic tasks at once.

    Firstly, the security services have the opportunity to make attacks in cyberspace, hiding behind national interests.
Secondly, the military gets a lever to put pressure on the allies, and the basis for legal penetration into their government networks.
Thirdly, and this, by the way, hits the interests of the United States most of all, the losing party has the tools to permanently accuse the winners of betraying national interests, receiving outside support and, eventually, weakening the institutions of the current government.