Theme
It had to happen eventually. Out of all the countries in the world, the hacking back debate has finally entered the political discourse in neutral Switzerland. While it is still too early to determine where the discussion will be heading toward, it is also the perfect time to insert a new perspective on hacking back.
Summary
This analysis will try to build a new baseline by explaining the fragmented history of hacking back and outlining varying degrees of operational intensity to refine a more nuanced understanding of hacking back.
1 Having said that, given the small number of publicly known cases, writing about hacking back is similar to putting together a 1000-piece puzzle with a mere 20 pieces while having only a rough idea as to what the complete picture actually looks like.
Ongoing state support for East European émigré groups with deep fascist roots
by Richard Sanders / January 21st, 2021
For decades the Canadian government has been supporting East European émigré associations whose much-revered founders, leaders and war heroes include veterans of Waffen SS divisions and other fascist military formations, perpetrators of the Holocaust and other ethnic-cleansing campaigns, officials from and apologists for Nazi puppet regimes, postwar CIA propaganda assets, proponents of Cold War terrorist groups like the US-armed Nicaraguan
contras and Afghan
mujahideen, and other virulently anticommunist “freedom fighters” and their ideologues.
Over the past few years alone, the most influential of these ethno-nationalist émigré organizations those representing the right-wing Ukrainian diaspora have received millions of dollars in Canadian government grants and contributions. For many decades, the Canadian government’s financial largesse has hel