Yep -- considerably more often than not, issues can be fixed before they become true crises. But when the situation involves this many unknowns, I prefer to have a fallback plan in place.

(It's true that the Russian thing is just a theory, but it's a plausible one, especially since nobody else has the obvious motivation and capability to mobilize quite this level of resources against LJ. And I gather that the attack was originally centered specifically against some Russian political blogs before widening...)