And as in everything else in global affairs, red lines matter. So when trolls from the Internet Research Agency began bombarding the United States with fake news from fake accounts—with the intent of meddling in an American election—they needed to be delisted from Facebook. (That happened, but not until well after the election.) If the agency remained undeterred, its servers needed to be melted down, courtesy of our cyberweapons. The servers would be replaced, of course, perhaps quickly. But the message would be sent, and the Russians would know that the United States was able and willing to
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Would escalate quickly
