I figure that "waiting for normies to wake up" is because the captured country (us) has to reject the new government that was put into place.

The Law of War manual has lots of considerations in it for determining when the captured citizens have rejected the new government.

It would be easier to see if there was a revolt & bloodshed. But chaos is the deep state's turf and where they operate the best, and I think we'd lose under that scenario because we'd either burn our country to the ground or believe anything just it to stop it.

The lawful way to end this is the way that was chosen. It's slower, but it's a lasting solution.

We all are suffering, war sucks. And we don't hear much, because of the type of war it is.

There have been no new laws under this regime, only mandates. There's a reason for that... Lots of coercion being used for the DS to check off the boxes that show the free willed captured are agreeable to the new regime.

The DS is well versed in the Laws of War - they have just want to skip past much of it by starting violence.