Steelman is the only way you can be truly intellectually honest. It's "I see what you're getting at" and not trying to just address a less-than-articulate argument because it's easier to defeat. You go the hard road because that's the way you get TO truth. And truth is way more important than winning.
I would offer up the decentralized nature of Bitcoin as evidence of it being resilient against nation states. And how Bitcoin miners can band together to improve cryptography in the presence of quantum computing. New tech goes both ways.