Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia "Relations between the Kremlin and the west are at their worst for years, with Russia engaged in bitter disputes not only with Estonia, but with Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, and Georgia - all former parts of the Soviet Union or ex-members of the Warsaw Pact. The electronic offensive is making matters much worse." International discohesion From a dark age perspective, the news may highlight two aspects: the deteriorating relations between western nations and Russia (intl. discohesion) and the vulnerability of mature, high-scale societies to methods of asymmetrical (cyber) warfare. Scale (see: "terms and concepts") is "the number of distinct actors with whom a given actor comes in contact in a given time interval. It depends on population size, population density and transport and communications technology."