Nation state actors perpetrate these kinds of hacks to hide their identities as nation state actors.
When a new hacker group says its a-political and it's toppling a regime or weakening a government of a nation significantly you have to ask yourself if they really are.
Doesn't apply in our case. We're only interested in freeing the belarusian people, our friends and family from the grips of this maniac Lukashenko. We don't even have any professional hackers (refused to work against the regime), we had to learn by a lot of trial and error.
Exactly this! One needs to understand the geopolitics of the region to understand that there’s a high chance of “meddling” and nefarious activity with anything that involves Belarus at the moment. It’s at the crosshairs of the world power interests.
Russia wants to retain influence and de facto unity. Basically maintain status quo.
China is threading belt road via Belarus. Massive economic interests and consequences for failure to achieve this.
US wants to reduce influence of both of the above and pull Belarus into its own sphere of influence.
You're stretching the argument. Even if Cyber-Partisans COULD hide their identites as a nation state actor doesn't mean that the ARE doing so. As for right now the group is exactly a-political and works to overturn Lukashenka's regime with any actors who also aims for this goal.
That's just a pedantic word discussion in my option, "political" can mean so many different things. This is clearly political in a way, yet the hacker group can also not be supporting any other politician directly.
No, I think your definition of politics is too restricted. There's no need to support opposition of any politician to be political. If it were, anarchists wouldn't be classified as political, which is absurd.
That's true of all words, so why not just stop talking. No, because there is an average meaning which most people will agree with, something to do with making decisions that effect groups of people. See a dictionary or an encyclopedia.
