I do believe that one of the major long-term trends that we need to include in our thinking is that foreign policy (including the possibility of cyberwarfare) is no longer just between nations, but between nations and individuals (whether the collective activists of popular revolutions or the terrorist as the oft-discussed “violent non-state actor“), between nations and big companies, and between companies and industries. And just as we expect nations not to act out of untrammeled self-interest lest the world go to hell in a handbasket, I think it’s reasonable to ask financial firms to show self-restraint as well. Either that, or expect that at some point, nations may decide to fight back with more than their central banks.