Also, yes. It’s a hypothetical, not based on fact; therefore, any answer is fine, and can also be dismissed without facts. It is a fun game where the news is now speculation instead of reporting on what happened in the past. It’s almost like we are wasting our time.
Or you could use cython, which is much easier to integrate with a python project. It is only marginally slower than Rust but a little less safe. Numpy libraries are usually the fast. Numba is a little clunky, but can also speed up code. There’s lots of options to speed up python code.