[central_va]

Shut down the power or food supply and people will be willing to change their allegiance for a loaf of bread. Dictators understand this. This is why they keep their armies relatively well-fed.

Sorry the math doesn't work. The USA cannot clamp down on a nation of 330 million.

[ealgeone]

I hope you are right.

I'd speculate somewhere in the Pentagon's OPLANs there is one for this scenario we're discussing.