The honest truth is we’re in Sri Lanka and Argentina territory—bring in a Trump or a Kushner as a privileged LP and the project can go forward.

Sri Lankan here. As of last year, the majority of Sri Lankans voted to send home the two historically establishment parties (who ran the country to the ground) and elected a third party into power with a 2/3rds majority in parliament and the presidency (an unprecedented upset). As someone who has viewed the US system favourably since childhood, it pains me to say that at present, Sri Lanka is probably marginally better than the US in terms of freedom of speech and independence of insitutions. Also painful is the fact that a such a third party upset is structurally impossible in the US. Here's wishing you all the best.

Or make a deal to pay a cut of revenue, like Nvidia and AMD did. Or a deal to give shares to the government, like Intel did.

Perhaps the government can set up some type of holding company which holds such shares and receive the stream of protection money. Next, arrange for investors to only be able to acquire shares of this company if they also trade in some US debt, like France once did with the Mississippi company.