In an era when the boundaries between statecraft and violence grow ever harder to trace, the U.S. Justice Department has formally accused Russian operatives of orchestrating coordinated attack plots across multiple countries, including on American soil. The indictment, unsealed this week, does not portray the defendants as lone actors but as instruments of a deliberate state apparatus — Moscow's mechanism for projecting covert force beyond its borders. The act of naming and charging, even without the prospect of extradition, is itself a form of reckoning: a public insistence that what is done