re: Is it a reasonable expectation that Russia will retaliate?

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I’m not sure what Putin could do at this point which he isn’t already doing. His hostage is dead. Putin’s only card left is the nuclear one, which you can only play once and wins you nothing but a Pyrrhic victory.

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President Biden told reporters Wednesday he gave President Vladimir Putin a list of 16 critical infrastructure entities that are "off limits" to a Russian cyberattack.

Those entities include energy, water, health care, emergency, chemical, nuclear, communications, government, defense, food, commercial facilities, IT, transportation, dams, manufacturing and financial services.

"We'll find out whether we have a cybersecurity arrangement that begins to bring some order," Biden said. Putin, for his part, denied any involvement in a recent spate of cyberattacks that have hit major industries across the U.S.

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