And people who are going to die anyway would not initiate a conventional civil war, starting with taking down the power grid, petroleum infrastructure, and water supply why exactly?
Since that is the precise assertion that you are making, explain why that would not happen.
Isabel Allende in her book, “Paula”, wrote about the resistance to her grandfather’s Marxist regime in Chile.
The resistance stopped deliveries into the big cities by sprinkling the roads with nails.