It's practice. This one appears be specifically testing whether or not the victim can be made to waste effort fighting the wrong opponent. Economies have regular up and down swings. Say Trump deregulates every greedy mega-corp in America and then starts his trade war. You'd have a combination of a collapsing economy with American core businesses engaging in high risk and fraudulent activity. Now hack the hell out of everything - publish trade secrets, wreck farming hardware, drain bank accounts, knock out power, fluctuate inventory, and use propaganda to obstruct recovery and misplace blame. The results could be bad enough that the US needs foreign investment to sustain life. Countries that once viewed the US and oppressive or competitive would now be using it for profit.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
