what if more power (from state) goes to the group that does engage in those activities, and therefore Anthropic gets marginalized as shadow sectors of state power pick a different winner?

These things are not clear. I do not envy those who must neurotically think through the first-order, second-order, third-order judgements of all of justice, "evil" and "good" that one must do. It's a statescraft level of hierarchy of concerns that would leave me immensely challenged