Good lord I feel ya. Volt typhoon has positioned itself to take out US critical infrastructure as soon as we push back on Taiwan. As one article put it, "the gun is loaded"...
Let's see how it turns out. I think it'll be interesting to watch and I understand now why they're trying to get people to bet on new events because at this point it's the only bright spot in this dystopian hellscape.
They had already succeeded because they had the workaround figured out when their friends made the rule.