I'll give you the forest guerilla function. They can be close to the resource targets that the Americans will immediately move to appropriate. I will also give that they will get popular support, so they won't starve.
I do think that you underestimate the impact on rural and small town populations that the American propaganda has had. There're full maga & 2A groups in Lindsay and Nelson who are flying their F Tr flags at this.
We're no longer pushing the Ukraine sailboat theory? Or did the Americans supply the boat?