How am I supposed to trigger events from other events in Stellaris?

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I’ve spent the entire day trying to figure out how to make one event trigger another. That’s it. Just a basic chain — click a button in Event A, and Event B pops up right after. Sounds simple, right?
 

I've tried a ludicrous number of variations, tweaks, and scope settings — not a single one fucking worked. In fact, half the time it just introduced more bugs and unintended behavior.
 

The first event shows up fine. I click the button — but nothing happens. When I try calling the second event directly from the console, it weirdly triggers the first event instead — like the second one doesn’t even exist. I’m seriously losing my mind here.
 

I don’t know what else I can try. I’ve gone through hundreds, of forum posts and whatever — and nothing helped. The best part? No one else even seems to have this problem.

Maybe one or two vague posts like, “just design your event chain and think what it is about,” but zero examples that actually work. I’m becoming dangerously unhinged over this.
 

If anyone out there knows what kind of arcane ritual Stellaris requires to just fire one goddamn event from another, I’m begging you — please tell me.