• The USCYBERCOM building (center) on the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland. The U.S. Cyber Command is part of the Department of Defense and it has a mission to unify cyberspace operations and engage in both defensive and offensive operations. | REUTERS
    The USCYBERCOM building (center) on the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland. The U.S. Cyber Command is part of the Department of Defense and it has a mission to unify cyberspace operations and engage in both defensive and offensive operations. | REUTERS
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There were many reasons Russian President Vladimir Putin finally decided to invade Ukraine, but one was the failure of an international alignment on the consequences of such aggression.

Tacit indifference to Russia’s behavior from both sides of the Atlantic — regarding previous invasions of Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014, nerve-agent attacks on political opponents, support for a bloody war criminal in Syria — undoubtedly encouraged the Kremlin’s provocations.

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