American Oligarchs Prepare for War in the Wreckage of a State They Destroyed
The New Jersey Regional Operations and Intelligence Center has issued a caution regarding escalating risks faced by American oligarchs. A survey conducted by Allied Universal in September 2025 revealed that two-thirds of security professionals in the U.S. observed an increase in threats targeting executives across sectors such as tech, defense, consumer products, energy, and pharmaceuticals. This trend has been largely attributed to campaigns spreading misinformation. In related commentary for the NYU Law Review, Ganesh Sitaraman, director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, argues that addressing the decline of the American state, exacerbated during the Trump era, may necessitate a major crisis or generational change.
Key facts
- NJ ROIC warned of threats to American oligarchs.
- Allied Universal survey: 66% of U.S. security chiefs reported increased threats to executives.
- Sectors with largest increase: technology, defense, consumer staples, energy, pharmaceuticals.
- Ganesh Sitaraman published 'The Secular Decline of the American State' in NYU Law Review.
- Sitaraman identifies fifteen dynamics of secular decline.
- Russell Vought argued for 'traumatically affecting' civil servants.
- Sitaraman suggests reversal may require crisis, backlash, or generational change.
- Article criticizes 'Abundance Democrats' for deregulatory agenda.
Entities
Institutions
- New Jersey Regional Operations and Intelligence Center
- Allied Universal
- Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation
- NYU Law Review
- Office of Management and Budget
Locations
- New Jersey
- United States