DK,
Chiming in here w/my thoughts, which are quite simply: You are a good man. You've got moxie.
Divide & conquer.
A combination of political, military and economic strategies that aim to gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.
With Blink on your team now, all things are possible! Yes, I do tend to reduce things to their simplest form, however we pull from where we pull & in that I am serious.
Best Wishes as you power forward (& you will),
BS