[vkou]

What I am responding to in the grandparent post is:

> Hackers from Russia or China are higher up on the hierarchy of needs and attack targets for geopolitical advantage.

That is a completely different claim from what you are talking about. The throwaway account claims that foreign hackers are all political agents. (Which is an incredibly broad generalization to make about an entire country, that strips its residents of their agency, and would require extraordinary amounts of evidence to support.) Your statement does not support that interpretation - it argues that they are economic agents that are tolerated/encouraged/whatever by the political apparatus.

Your claim is compatible with mine. The throwaway account's, on the other hand, isn't.