Pentagon orders its cyber arm to stop operations against Russia [updated]
March 1, 2025 12 Comments
THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT of Defense has reportedly ordered its Cyber Command to “stand down from all planning” of cyber operations aimed at Russia. According to technology news source The Record, the order was issued by President Donald Trump’s newly appointed Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth. Citing three anonymous sources familiar with the matter, the Record said US Cyber Command’s outgoing Director of Operations, Marine Corps Major General Ryan Heritage, communicated the order last week to all component commands.
Established in 2009, the US Cyber Command is among the 11 unified combatant commands of the US Armed Forces. It coordinates and directs cyber operations in the Department of Defense, having achieved a degree of autonomy from the National Security Agency (NSA), which has historically led the US military’s defensive and offensive cyber operations.
According to the Record, Secretary Hegseth’s order appears to encompass all offensive cyber operations aimed at Russia. These are carried out by US Cyber Command’s National Mission Teams, as well as all component commands, which reside under the US Armed Forces branches —namely the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Navy. The order also appears to apply to all cyber operations carried out by the US European Command. However, the order does not apply to the NSA, according to the report.
The precise scope of Secretary Hegseth’s order remains unclear. The exact duration of the order is also not known at this time. But, according to the Record, Hegseth’s order provides “more evidence of the White House’s efforts to normalize ties with Moscow,” as the Trump administration continues to push for a negotiated end to the Russo-Ukrainian war.
In a separate development, Secretary Hegseth reportedly told Mexican government officials on Friday that the US military was “prepared to take unilateral action” to combat drug cartels in the country. According to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported this development, the Trump administration has begun transporting nearly 2,000 troops to the US-Mexican border, to assist in “machine operation, medical evacuation and administrative support.
UPDATE: The New York Times is also reporting this as of March 2, stating that move is “apparently part of a broader effort to draw President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia into talks on Ukraine and a new relationship with the United States.”
► Author: Ian Allen | Date: 01 March 2025 | Permalink
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Back story? ID why… SOunds like anti POTUS propaganda
he has to be an asset right?
Like clearly, trump has been compromised by the Russians.
Surely anyone can see what is going on here. The US has been under continuous cyberattck from Russia, both criminal and government sanctioned or sponsored attacks. And suddenly we throw the doors wide open? Now they don’t even need a Trojan horse, they can walk right in. Surely this falls into the category of treason? Giving aid or comfort to the enemy? Why is this not front page news everywhere?
I agree wholeheartedly with the prior comment. How is this even possible? “A new relationship with the United States?” Is that what it’s called? Russia is our enemy.
We Five Eye allies of the US view with concern the new Russia-US (RUS) Alliance.
Russia cannot be trusted to cease its cyper-ops against the US.
We remaining 4 Five Eye allies (especially the UK) will conduct cyber-ops against Russia on our former US ally’s behalf.
It is difficult to distinguish between:
A. Trump leading America into alliance with Russia
and
B. Trump being an agent of influence run by ex KGB man Putin.
No fan of Trump, but the Russian asset rumors have all been debunked. The Steele dossier was paid for by Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic National Committee, that has been proven, period. Democrats started the rumors, and not only Russia but Racism, and Nazism as well.
Trump’s problem with Ukraine began when Biden son was being investigated by Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. Trump during his first term asked had asked Zelenskiy to look into it. Viktor Shokin was fired by previous President Petro Poroshenko… Zelenskiy was going to look into it, the phone call went nuclear with the Democrats trying to use it against Trump.
What I can get, is that when Biden bragged about withholding the billion dollars the US was prepared to hand over, know body seemed to mind… Call it what it was. Trump is no angle, and way too skin thin for my taste, but right is right, and wrong is wrong. https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/biden-reportedly-bragged-about-the-firing-of-a-prosecutor-who-was-investigating-his-sons-firm/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trump_Organization#Real_estate :
“Trump’s casinos later entered bankruptcies in which his bondholders took deep losses. After these incidents, Trump had difficulty borrowing new money from most mainstream financial institutions.[76]
Deutsche Bank, which did not have a significant presence on Wall Street during the 1980s, expanded rapidly in the U.S. during the 1990s. Trump obtained a loan of approximately $425 million from them in 1998.[76] In the process of its rapid expansion, the bank engaged in numerous questionable practices, including manipulating currencies and interest rates, laundering billions of dollars for Russian oligarchs and misleading international bank regulators.[76] The bank was fined $630 million in 2017 for facilitating a $10 billion Russian money laundering scheme.[77] The bank provided Trump with a variety of services including financial instruments designed to shield him from risks and outside scrutiny, and helped connect Trump to wealthy clients (including some from Russia) who were interested in Western real estate.[76] During the 2000s and 2010s, Trump borrowed $2 billion from the bank, owing it about $360 million in 2016.[76][78]
…Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr., was quoted as saying at a 2008 New York real estate conference, “In terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets … We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”[82] James Dodson, a golf magazine writer, said that during a 2014 golf game, he asked Trump’s son Eric how the organization was funding its golf resort acquisitions, to which Trump responded, “Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” Eric Trump later denied making the statement,[83] although some of the company’s financing apparently involves Russian money.”
Trump to this day appreciates all those Russian bailouts.
lots of comments by disgruntled “former” employees that were victims of recent layoffs.
this used to be a very prominent place to post comments and now look at all that “conspiracy theory” content…
I am saddened .
:(
Dod/cui/ En tant qu’officer sous-traitant.
Est-il pensable que Le président Trump/ n’est pas quelqu’un en qui ont avoir facilement confiance ? Les fonctionnaires de carrière qui travaillent pour le gouvernement américain sont depuis longtemps des partenaires fiables. Ce sont les employés de haut niveau qui dirigent réellement le FBI, les agences de renseignement et le Pentagone au jour le jour, peu importe qui siège dans le Bureau ovale ou dans les suites exécutives des bâtiments du siège.
bon samedi.
Pascal lembree.
There are several lessons from the war in Ukraine from 2014 to today that demand a complete rethink about the security of European nations, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and other Asian and African allies.
The most important of these is that the US is an unreliable, greedy and ineffective ally. Trump’s withdrawal of military aid to Ukraine is just the latest, if the most egregious, example. History is replete with US military failure: Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq come to mind.
In those theatres, the troops, military, and civilian aid ended and there was no democracy, rule of law, or freedom for the people the US purported to help – just large profits for the US companies that produced the weapons and supplies.
In a way, Trump has done us a favour by exposing the heart and mind of the US.
And it is important to define “the US” in that context. We come back to the question: what are American values? Are they the values of the sociopathic, transactional, insurrectionist, misogynist in the White House? Or are they the values of the vast mass of “ordinary, decent, thoughtful Americans”?
I think at least some of the former. Simply because enough “ordinary” Americans were not decent nor thoughtful enough, and they enabled Trump to gain the White House. Just as the ordinary decent Russians enabled and allowed the Putin dictatorship to happen. Just as ordinary decent Germans allowed the Hitler dictatorship to happen.
Trump is devoid of morality and truth. We must, therefore, treat the US as a whole in the same way as we would treat a lying, sexually assaulting, narcissistic man. They voted for him. They enabled him.
The US citizens who voted for him and enabled him have betrayed the people of all of America’s allies. The betrayal cannot be easily undone.
Nations are not good or bad. And they are certainly not forever good or forever bad. England was once a mad theocracy under Cromwell. France was an autocracy under Napoleon. Many Latin American countries have gone from vicious dictatorships to democracies and back again.
The goodness or badness of a nation is essentially dependent on the people of the nation and the leaders that those people have permitted to lead them.
Flawed electoral systems aside, the fact that Trump was elected is a deep stain on the American people themselves. Let’s not mince words. The view that the American people are lovely despite Trump and that we should, therefore, maintain the alliances with America is surely untenable.
It would be the same as saying that the Russian people are lovely so we should not impose sanctions that would cause them hardship. The adage is that people get the government they deserve. The corollary is that the people deserve the consequences of the governments they enable and permit.
Australia and the UK should end AUKUS. Australia and New Zealand should dissolve ANZUS, and the Canadians and Europe should expel the US from NATO. Under Trump, the US is not an ally, it is a business hell-bent on screwing whatever it can from whichever nation is in a weak position.
Also, it has $875 billion worth of weapons orders on the books now.
It is no good all the defence hawks and the military-industrial complex saying that we must have the US as an ally to deter enemies and help us. Since January 2025, the deterrence has been worthless because Russian and China have only been encouraged in their aggression by Trump. And any future aid simply cannot be relied upon.
Building up our own forces and exploiting our geography will be a better guarantor of our security than the US with Trump in the Oval Office.
We have a choice here. Either we (the democratic, rule-of-law countries, which now does not include the US) ignore the fact that Donald Trump, the president of our principal ally, has traitorously treated our enemies as friends and our friends as enemies, or we change our relationship with the US.
As Trump’s actions get more and more disruptive, the rule-of-law nations should cut the US out and indeed form a new rule-of-law alliance. The rule-of-law nations – the EU, Britain, Japan, Australia and others have a combined GDP equivalent to that of the US.
Even before Trump came to power, the US was not a member of the International Criminal Court or the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Now it has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Agreement and is smashing the World Trade Organisation with random tariff imposition.
You cannot have a lawless leader of a rules-based order, nor an isolationist leader of an order underpinned by collective action.
RE: Anonymous says:
March 10, 2025 at 17:44
The US has been paying most of the bills in the free world, and not just Trump, but those who elected him are good and tired of it as well. Time for the rest of the so called free world to do their part, and playing the blame game, and playing on your TDS isn’t cutting it anymore.
Careful what you wish for. My oldman had a saying: “Change is great, but make sure you understand what you maybe forced to give up…” America tax payers are not the world’s piggy bank!