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The President of the United States, Joe Biden , considered that cyberattacks may end, some day, “unleashing a real armed conflict.”
In a Speaking to the intelligence community, Biden warned of the risk of escalation due to cyber threats, but also of the “danger” posed in his opinion by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which he attributed to his position of weakness in the global context.
Putin “only has nuclear weapons and oil, that’s all. He knows he has problems and that makes him more dangerous ”, Biden said in a speech during a visit to the office of the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines.
In his speech to dozens of intelligence agents, Biden stressed that cyber threats are causing, as already seen, significant damage in the real world.
But he also spoke of the damage caused by disinformation and at that point he again criticized Russia, considering that that country is already spreading these false data “in an attempt to influence” next year’s mid-term elections in the United States.
He did not forget China in this speech, in which he pointed out, before the intelligence agency professionals, who has spent more time with Chinese President Xi Jinping than with any other world leader, although it was in his time as vice president.
He warned that China is on its way to becoming the largest military force in the world and in the economy most largest on the planet, something that at this rate it will achieve, he said, in the decade of 2040.
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In any case, he admitted that the United States also has to work in cooperation with Russia and China , even if they are “deadly competitors”.
With information from Efe.
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