“We’re sending a message,” Mr. Biden told Chuck Todd, the show’s host. “We have the capacity to do it.”“He’ll know it,” Mr. Biden added. “Hope not,” Mr. Biden responded. “As a response to the Russian attacks on the U.S. democratic system, this would be both proportional and distinctive,” Mr. Stavridis wrote. But such steps would risk escalation, and advisers have warned Mr. Obama that the United States is more vulnerable than most nations.

Source: New York Times October 15, 2016 20:03 UTC