Foreign interference is an inevitable concept with the government and election systems veering g to a digital platform. Even North Korea, a nation politically isolated where its citizens cannot access digital technology for the most part, has trained individuals working for the regime that attack websites and government databases. The CIA and FBI indicate that North Korean hackers were responsible for the infamous WannaCry attacks that dismantled hundreds of information technology websites. I am sure that other nations with ideological differences and are political foes to the United States have tried to access our election systems and access government files. Yet simultaneously our nation's CIA has interfered with other countries elections and political systems as well, therefore foreign interference goes both ways. It is good to hear that foreign interference in the 2020 election did not impact the election to the extent that it did in 2016 with the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee.

It is the FBI's initiative to investigate and apprehend suspects who steal valuable information from our government within the confines of our territory. The FBI was successful in finding and apprehending a Chinese national relaying sensitive information to the Chinese government. This is what the FBI is supposed to do and should monitor nationals staying in the United States temporarily that are citizens of other autocratic goers to the United States. Reading the vulnerabilities and indicators of the article mentioned was interesting from a international business perspective. Specializing in international development and foreign trade, the goal of multinational companies is to expand their operations to as many countries as possible in order to grow their business. Yet a key vulnerability mentioned is a company's loyalty to a country besides the United States. Many companies affiliate with other nations based on their tariff or quota regulations which is appealing, yet that state's government might have darker political ambitions which is a notion to be wary of.

The United States government has had a longer history dealing with domestic terrorims than that of foreign terrorist threats, and most recently with political unrest taking place in the United States throughout the year of 2020, the US government should be aware of far right radical groups as they pose a serious threat to national security and public safety however.

Prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, domestic terrorism was the biggest threat to the United States as lone wolves such as Ted Kaczynski and Eric Rudolph terrorized the American public in their respective bombings.

Domestic terrorism in the United States is a very broad category ranging from lone actors with their own radical ideologies and ambitions such as Ted Kaczynski the Unabomber who argued that technology was destroying society and would not stop terrorizing Americans through mail bombs until his manifesto was published. I have family in Idaho and a group that has not always made headlines in the national news was the Aryan Nations based in Northern Idaho that terrorized minority groups for decades and had their own commune. The federal government disbanded the organization after the group shot a caucasian woman and her child. I would argue that the Proud Boys could be considered a terrorist organization after they were involved in the storming of the United States Capital, an attack on a pillar of modern democracy. Often times stopping domestic terrorism in the United States means reaching out to isolated groups that seclude themselves in rural communities. These groups without any outside information, continue to radicalize and be skeptical of the US government leading to radicalization and events such as as Ruby Ridge and the Waco siege. Seeking out lone wolf attackers can be increasingly challenging for the US government however.