However, it would make some sense that politically connected individuals/companies would stand benefit from any claims of national security related to such incidences in order to protect them from liability, even if the exposure to severity of such incidences were preventable to some degree.

When national security claims protect your six, rational actors eventually will seek to exploit such…

at this point, why WOULDN'T you proxy through a server in Russia or even "just" Eastern Europe when you execute even a wordpress vulnerability

A server with an IP in Russia = Russian Hackers = State Sponsored Russian Hackers = Vladimir Putin destabilizing Democracy

While you are eating popcorn and have millions of dollars of cryptocurrency no questions asked.

Well, like I said, pure speculation, so I don't have much to back it up. Just musing