Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary demonstrations and establishing your assumptions clearly.
Please "eli5" ... not sure i follow what you are saying here.
Edit #1 :
Having the gall to refuse to pay taxes ...
You meant to say the goal ?
Edit #2 :
in book titled : "Rising Sun" from Michael Crichton, there is this saying that goes : "Trade is war" that was applied to the then, ~1980s', predatory trade from Japan against the economy of the USA.
Nowadays trade is more and more driven by artificial intelligence ... so with all this, i would argue, in this line of thought, "a.i." is part of a new kind of war.