"We used to always talk about super powers & I think we now live in a world where we need to talk about cyber powers" @Microsoft President & Vice Chair @BradSmi tells #AspenSecurity
"But what we're fundamentally seeing is #Ukraine in particular is Russia use its very sophisticated cyber capabilities to do 3 things..."
"One is support an invasion, including w/destructive cyber attacks" per @Microsoft's @BradSmi
"The 2nd is do what the #Russian gvt does year-in, year-out, which is very broad-based espionage & hacking, both of gvt & pvt sector"
"The 3rd thing we're seeing which I think is in some ways the one we should worry the most abt...the 1 thing the #Russia|n gvt hs become so capable of doing is using cyber capabilities & the internet to engage in very sophisticated influence operations" per @Microsoft's @BradSmi
"When the Russian propaganda engine goes to work & it talks to ppl in Russian it tell ppl to get a vaccine" per @Microsoft's @BradSmi "But when it talks to ppl in English, it tells them not to get a vaccine"
Per @Microsoft's @BradSmi, #Russia's #Sapnish language info ops tells Spanish speakers in #Cuba to get vaccinated but tells Spanish speakers in the US not to get he vaccine
"The problem right now is, they [#Russia] don't need to create wacky ppl in America" per Senate Intelligence Comm. Chair @MarkWarner, referring back to #kremlin disinfo strategy in #Election2016
Says #Moscow just amplifying real US voices to exacerbate division
"Unfortunately, this is all going to get worse" warns @ericschmidt, Chair of theNational Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence
"The AI systems will get better at figuring out the stuff you care abt & the targeting will become more & more personal"
NEW: #Ukraine unleashing "very precise, very accurate" targeting of #Russia , per senior defense official
"They're paying a high price" official says of #Russia, saying its forces suffering "low morale"
On the new $170 million drawdown/aid package -"The capabilities in this package are going to be useful on the battlefield immediately" per senior US defense official
NEW: #Ukraine-"It was the assessment of the American intelligence community...#Russia would be significantly more capable & significantly more successful on the battlefield" White House Nat'l Security Adviser @JakeSullivan46 tells #AspenSecurity
"In fact, #Russia was not able to acheive the basic strategic objectives that Pres. #Putin set out" per @JakeSullivan46
#Ukraine "won the battle of #Kyiv, they beat Russia back from #Kharkiv, they stopped Russia from being able to make a bum's rush to #Odesa"
"Now we're in a circumstance where #Russia is facing significant difficulties constituting th kind of force necessary for them to achieve the objectives which have not fundamentally changed" per @JakeSullivan46
"We'll have more packages of aid [for #Ukraine] to announce in the weeks and months to come" per @WHNSC's John Kirby
White House praises grain deal signed Friday but cautions "success of course is going to depend on #Russia's compliance w/the agreement" per @WHNSC's John Kirby
#Drone threat to the US - "We [US] have to think abt whether or not humans will remain in the kill chain bcs some of our adversaries have decided they will not & that the targeting will be done much quicker" House Intel Comm.'s @RepJasonCrow tells #AspenSecurity
Threat to US from drones-"How do we stop those drones before they ever launch?" asks @USSOCOM Commander Gen. Richard Clarke tells #AspenSecurity
"The cost for entry...is very very low" he says, adding there also needs to be discussion of norms for use of drones
#Chemcial-#Biological threat to US significant, even from non-state actors - "It's pretty simple to do" per @USSOCOM's Gen Clarke