I presume we're stuck in the middle of a giant game of blackmail, where bad things are done to us, but if there is intervention, even worse things are deployed. It is a very long slow process to mitigate or eliminate all these threats.
Had this same thought yesterday with the pause of the Epstein Client List until 1/22/24, which to me meant "alright alright I'll put the proverbial gun down for now" by the White Hats so they can address whatever threat [they] made.