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Russia in particular is turning the blind eye on en masse cyber crime that is originating from Russia. Russian hackers in the last two decades stole millions of credit cards from US and EU and hacked numerous banks and still the biggest Russian cyber criminals are at large in Russia. Just look at the FBI's top 10 wanted for cyber crime.

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RU cybercriminals pay bribes to RU law enforcement to stay out of trouble as well as bend the knee and work for GRU/KBG when called upon for various requests by them.

then there is also the unspoken rule of "dont shit where you eat" aka RU/CIS based ransomware operators and hackers cant attack any companies in the CIS region.

a good read, https://www.recordedfuture.com/research/dark-covenant-3-cont...

I think you're misreading the situation. As far as I can tell, Russia has every reason to want to continue engaging in heavy cyber-criminal activities. I don't think this is the virtuous Kremlin turning a blind eye. This is a classic case of deception. Look at my left hand, so you don't see what my right is doing.

They see it as asymmetrical warfare, I know that; but if US would let US cyber criminals steal millions of Russian and Chinese credit cards or some other PII, I would perceive that as distasteful and not as a form of counterintelligence.

Considering that America has allowed hundreds of billions of dollars of money belonging to individuals in Russia to be stolen, I do not see the validity of your argument.

It was caused by unprovoked and illegal invasion of neighbouring country, that's tit for tat. They also seized assets of Nazi Germany when Hitler decided to go full yolo.

These are just words, excuses that hide the fact that they illegally stole funds that did not belong to them.

Can I read more about the seizure of German bank accounts? As far as I know, they (USA) continued to sponsor Germany until 1944. (through various branches.)

Some Swiss banks serviced Nazi accounts until 2020 and did not see any problems in this.

A tit for tat would have been Iraq had seized American assets in response to the US invasion and the theft of Iraq's gold assets.

Remind me, when did Russia invade the USA or the EU?)

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