[djf]

I’ve said it before on other threads.

All they need to do is set up choke points on the major commodities routes/production facilities, and the store shelves would be empty in two days.

In ten days, people would be begging for assistance, willing to do whatever it takes.

Gummint could pull it off with 5000 troops.

[OneWingedShark]

In ten days, people would be begging for assistance, willing to do whatever it takes.

Fortunately the "whatever it takes" doesn't mean that they'll do what the government says; there is a lot of truth in the saying "when you have nothing to lose, then you are truly free."

[yorkiemom]

All they need to do is set up choke points on the major commodities routes/production facilities, and the store shelves would be empty in two days. In ten days, people would be begging for assistance, willing to do whatever it takes.

Could be simpler than that - they can just cut off the EBT cards.