All of this underscores the serious dangers many have pointed to for more than a year about why all this unhinged rhetoric is so alarming If you really believe that Russia – with some phishing links sent to John Podesta and some fake Facebook ads and Twitter bots – committed an “act of war” of any kind  let alone one on par with Pearl Harbor and 9/11  then it’s inevitable that extreme retaliatory measures will be considered and likely triggered