Might wanna shift all this emphasis on what the magician's flourishing hand is doing and inject some concerted effort into a foriegn invasion while we are quote/unquote weakened.
Very few of them have actually seen the shock of real war.
Becoming Muhameds bacha boy or getting whisked away in a Xi community service van simply for using a cell phone wouldn't sit well with anyone who still had an ounce of self-preservation rationale left in their bones.