It's nice to imagine there's a distinction between the GRU and Russia writ large. Particularly since the typical Russian citizen has no say over what the GRU does.
Also, there are easy explanations at hand for the extended outages in Texas that have nothing to do with hacking the power grid. Now if we're talking about the Ukrainian power grid...
Unfortunately, the Russians have a very long history of bad rulers. These rules were constantly fighting with enemies outside and inside. Common people were suffering because of this, century after century. They were rebelling, time after time, and finally one of these rebellions succeeded, and the last Tzar was killed. Unfortunately, it turned out the new leaders are not any better, and again millions of Russians died.
So whenever someone conflates Russian rulers with Russian themselves, I feel really bad about it. Russian people are in no way different from any other nation, they are nice and friendy. If anything, I'd say they have several smart people and scientists vritually unkonwn in the West, which is a pity to both sides.
It really has nothing to do with the Russian people, it has to do with the Russian government and its agencies. I don't think anyone but you is conflating the two here.
Again and again, I think that hacker news cant be a place for spreading false anti-russian (anti-any country) propaganda that was proved to be false a long ago. If you read a references section of "penal military unit" - you will not able to find it in his books.
