The big thing is what you are guardian against. Scammers and port scanners you would be good but if your a corporation or someone a government goes after they can do so much more and use an unreleased vulnerability on you.

I run crowdsec thru Zoraxy and also set an allow list for countries that can connect, a very short list since it’s just 5 people. Also fail2ban and I run the paid security thru unify to try it out.

Yeah, even little pockets of US government are making Linux desktop builds because of licensing and hardware constraints.

When elections took place could mean someone that won was pro America or Microsoft