I'm pretty sure that declaration was sent 2 years ago. Although perhaps it's more a continuation of the previous cold war and we're just starting to see what they've been working on for the last 10-20 years in the news now.

Politics aside, I'm worried that sometime in the near future we'll begin seeing bigger hacks or series of hacks that will be part of this centuries big events like the Great Depression and the World Wars were for the last.