Great Article.
The Ultrawealthy / Power Okole Playbook:
Step 1. Acquire all the wealth of the nation via political cronies, money supply and interest rate manipulation, corruption, etc.
Step 2. Begin propaganda that if you are against anyone getting rich, you are a communist, in order to keep the dwindling middle class's anger focused on the struggling poor and not the ultrawealthy that's doing the looting.
Step 3. Utilize paid-off think tanks and media to create foreign enemies to further misdirect the country's wealth ill-distribution anger towards a military peer.
Step 4. Flood the domestic populace with trivial issues of race, religion, gender, etc. to further keep the citizenry off-balance.
Step 5. Counterbalance any potential populace revolt or civil war with domestic false flags, gun control, rigged elections, etc.
Step 6. Instigate WWIII with a military peer as a last resort to maintain domestic control and eliminate any patriot resistance.
Step 7. If domestic control is lost by civil war, revolution, or military defeat, prepare resettlement to another vassal state to begin the process all over again.
Based on the steps above, the US empire's ultrawealthy and Power Okole are working on Step 6 right now.
Beware!