Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq are roughly the models I'm advocating. None of those initiated a full on direct kinetic war, they moved out of the cities and defended what was rightfully theirs, and largely outlasted and maintained their ways of life to varying degrees. Asymmetric warfare.

And it kind of proves my point, they didn't go through every mountain rooting out opposition, because that is not economically viable. They mostly went after figureheads and those that were directly causing problems.

Same with "nations that tried to exit the IMF"...I'm not talking about creating a nation state, I'm talking about creating a parallel society that exists alongside the mainstream system but does not directly compete. Live on the outskirts of the system, interacting at the edges and the black markets within, and wait for its eventual collapse (comparable to the US eventually leaving Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq).

I agree, though, they do seem intent on exterminating us, but as far as saving our nation states, I don't think there is any coming back from where we're at. In that sense they've already won. Move to the outskirts and wait for it to collapse.

If things were to swing back hard the other way, I'd be afraid it was a setup like Germany after Weimar. That may have seemed great for a decade, but how did it end?