Yeah, these guys are going to find out pretty quickly that they're not warlords, and you can't Agile, litigate or buyback your way to suppressing a coup. They might still come out in a good position, because they have easy access to nice stuff and important people, and that doesn't instantly go away, but it's not going to be how they imagined.

Kamil Galeev had a good quote on this once: "Innovators are greenhouse flowers, they flourish only in very safe societies". And honestly, a lot of these guys are barely innovators.