You have to look at the context. By mentioning trouble and Thargoids in the same sentence suggests something similar in nature.
The story i believe deeper than just alien ( or whatever ) discovery.
I think there are many political implications in the rift mystery but think its something that is trouble in the same nature as Thargoids.
Not gonna argue there. You have your interpretation and the tough process you base that interpretation on and that's absolutely fine in my book, even if my opinion differs . My point is that we know so little about the nature of the mystery we should be really vary of misquoting or twisting the precious little clues we have.
If we are not cautious we can find ourselves looking for space AI anteaters (ever got licked by one? Much worse than some space bugs) and entirely miss the rouge group of stars coming on us from the depths of void