Yep. The elites are bored and want to divvy up the US into privately-owned technocracies powered by AI. Billionaires would sooner eat each other than cede power to another, so their resolution was a coalition to bring down world governments, so they may rule as monarchs of their own little serfdoms.

All of their plans depend on enormous masses of people taking up their ideological cause and doing all the work of dismantling entire nations for them, because the elites fundamentally cannot fathom a world in which they want to do something and there isn’t an entire class of people already in the process of making it happen without need of directions of how to accomplish it.

The elites are so insulated by the rule of capitalism and the legacy of empires that they feel comfortable in tearing down the states that have endured centuries of popular opposition and whose institutions made their extravagant wealth automatic. Elites have just enough power and influence to inflict global war and death on the rest of us, but not enough to escape true justice in the form of a bullet shot clean through their skulls, Weegee style.