Nah it's even worse than just fiancial embargoes. No fiancial peacetime tricks -- a peaceful economic takeover is a mere delusional dream.
A more realistic scenario is to completely invalidate the currency through complete communist revolution and genocide, and have the government speculate and hoard all the food away from the people ("war rations"). The AI hypertech things can happen later, but you will never survive to see it if it happens.
The linked interview above is basically a summary of his free ebook The Great Taking, that has the details and references :
https://thegreattaking.com/
Nah it's even worse than just fiancial embargoes. No fiancial peacetime tricks -- a peaceful economic takeover is a mere delusional dream.
A more realistic scenario is to completely invalidate the currency through complete communist revolution and genocide, and have the government speculate and hoard all the food away from the people ("war rations"). The AI hypertech things can happen later, but you will never survive to see it if it happens.