Yep, Putin is definitely 200% behind this. On his "off nights," he is actually in control of KGB Cyber Command. Fueled by White Russians Putin Style (coffee with vodka in lieu of creamer), he loudly hacks at a mechanical keyboard in a filthy, old Stalingrad decommissioned munitions factory in the late hours of the night. He stops to ponder for a minute--that Corsair backlit Soviet Control Panel of all those Cyrillic letters flashing from red to white to pink to blue to orange in some homosexual European fashion illuminates the entire factory--and he continues before launching the first of the nukes out of Idaho toward Ottawa. The next step, he contemplates, must be to cyber-order the troops to mount a land invasion into Canada and raid their healthcare system until Canada is destroyed and the US has great healthcare. Then, finally, the Russians can take their Red October fleet into Hudson Bay and stage their own land attack. Taking all of northern Canada and moving downward until they finally reach the Exclusion Zone, that belt of radiation separating New Russia from the US, the belt created by America's very own nukes.