Hopefully the DS is getting to the bottom of the barrel. I know it’s deep but can you imagine when it gets to the point where somebody somewhere is being monitored while suggesting, “... ok we can use plaid jacket. No, not plaid jacket! I wish we could use Hogg again.” (seriously! lol)
Given the resources, time and secret society organizational structure of the DS I’d say that after they’re neutralized in the US we would be somewhere in the beginning to middle of the second quarter game wise.
Mentally “gaming” this, the DS’s strong point is their long game, we have momentum, patriotism and charisma carrying us at the moment. Given the magnitude of their setbacks plus the large disadvantage that DS is currently suffering having lost a huge chunk of their information infrastructure I see them at some point going over to a scorched earth policy. This would entail them sacrificing vast assets and visually key players to withdraw and insulate a core in order to survive to rise again.
Recall at one point that freemasonry was almost squelched in the US stemming from a murder scandal. That decline and it’s cause is little known now and the organization flourishes (quite probably heavily involved as a subunit of the DS at higher levels no less).
It will only take a few upper level survivors (spores) with some sequestered asset bases to begin their slow march again, on a generational scale that will, if we’re not vigilant, leave the citizenry largely captivated in their average lives getting on with our days. We’ll probably need to devise some type of physical and digital informational vaults that lay out this history, fight, methods and means for future patriots to look to for instruction to battle. Caches and troves with “In case of illuminated assholes, break glass” on them.
Those caches will contain things (digital and/or hard) like the lexiQon, history of this fight, bible, constitution, history of money and lending, listing of lineages of offenders, etc...
One of the closest organizations to this group structurally in the past was the assassin sect. At its peak it wielded influence over a significant slice of global civilization, one far exceeding its apparent size and open field arms capability. It was only after they got ahead of themselves and pissed off the global superpower of the time, the Mongols, that they were destroyed and that took them a few years of root and branch no quarter thrashing to accomplish.
We need to insure that our future generations do not fall into the trap of incredulity to human depravity nurtured by moral ambiguity. Given the acceleration of travel both physical and informational we’ve been able to see the wages of this several times in the last century on industrial scales. If this is to occur now let the wages be extracted from the forces of darkness and pray that it’s the last for ages...