Who did this sound like a good idea to?

Biden gave Putin a list of high-priority targets for Russian hackers to take down. How did *anyone* think that was a good idea?

1: It comes off as weakness: “Please don’t attack us!” Thus inviting attack.

2: A list of stuff Biden thinks shoudl be off limits not only points out vulnerabilities, it’s the wrong frikken’ message. Instead of “please don’t attack these,” which implies that it’s ok to attack *other* entities, the message should be “we will respond in a way that seems good to us. Remember that you hare highly economically dependent upon things like pipelines. It sure would be a shame if the software controlling your pipelines causes an explosion. Again.”