The whole US-Russia conflict seems so scripted now it's almost hard to believe.
When the US Vice President starts openly threatening cyber warfare against Russia on prime time television, this is not how real wars start if you are planning to win against a serious adversary, with arguably better technical capabilities.
You don't give them advanced notice and shout from the rooftops that you are about to strike, you do it quietly and efficiently with maximum plausible deniability, to limit escalation and political blowback/isolation from the UN and the international community for needless aggression.
And you definitely don't use senior politicians like VPs to make open threats against a heavily nuclear armed country like Russia, it's suicidal if they really take you seriously. Also all the official language so far still says its retaliation for "alleged" hacks, so why all the posturing when the US doesn't even claim to have any hard evidence?
This whole show is clearly staged for public consumption just like the elections, they are begging for any kind of reaction from Putin before Trump wins the election, so they can escalate to war.
If they don't get a real reaction, a "cyber war" would make an ideal false flag for several reasons:
It's very easy to spoof attacks, fake IP logs and point fingers without any real evidence, especially with back doors into Cisco devices and most of the Internet. It's cheap and easy and impossible to disprove, so no need to go to all the trouble of staging another elaborate 911.
It makes for a convenient excuse to blame when you have to take the stock exchanges and ATMs offline, because of technical glitches and pesky Russians crashing your markets.
You can heavily censor and regulate the Internet, shut down alt-news sites and damaging unpatriotic leaks, and require digital IDs for everyone to prevent another terrorist cyber attack. Never let a crisis go to waste remember.
I wouldn't have posted something like this even 6 months ago as its so fringe it's borderline crazy, but so is US foreign policy lately and I can't see why else Biden is running his mouth like this, it's terrible leadership and a sign of desperation.