I'm not talking about ethnic Russians/Ukrainians, I used "native English speakers" as a codeword to refer to "real" Americans, i.e. people who are have deep ethnic and historic loyalty to the American cause. You cannot rely on most ethnic Russians/Ukrainians in America to have blind loyalty to an American cause.
Pure unfounded speculation. The Russians and Chinese have a huge advantage over American intelligence agencies just by the simple fact that there are far more English-speaking Russians/Chinese than there are Russian-speaking Americans. Massive information asymmetry. How many native English speakers speak fluent Russian? Less than a few hundred in the entire world (I'm a Russian academic, I know). How many native Russian speakers speak fluent English? Hundreds of thousands of people. That's the reason why the Russian government is able to run massive projects that directly influence American public opinion through social media. America simply doesn't have that volume of talent and infiltration into foreign societies.
> The US must have some fantastic assets if they are putting up so little fuss about solarwinds and this attack.
Actually they are putting up so little fuss because they are incompetent and castrated since the last administration.