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Originally Posted by DWB
Different times. Different situation. Most of these countries now live or die by import / export, including power in some cases and medicine.
If a full nuclear exchange took place, the lights are going off in a lot of places. How long before countries who import their antibiotics run out of them? You think the banks are going to be open? It's going to cause chaos no matter where you are for a while. Eventually, hopefully, the military will step in to get things in order, but where do they buy their weapons, machine parts, and gas/oil from? You can only keep the peace for so long if you can't fuel your vehicles or keep your troops armed. Unless you make your own weapons and ammo, they can only be fired so many times. And so on. .
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You really didn't get my point. Antibiotics, banks? Antibiotics are at least on the shopping list, but banks? Come on. Government starts getting for people shelter, food and water, and that point banks are irrelevant (untill much later). Governments don't buy things times like that, they take what they want and totally legally, paying is in somewhere future, if at all.
I don't know about US military, but at least around here army has stockpiles, it doesn't go shopping if we are attacked. Well, actually some weapons must be bought more if war goes on enough long time, but I guess you can manage your own citizens without cruise missiles, etc.
I am quite sure that US military has enough bullets to shoot every American, including the shooting soldiers, but as we are talking about keeping the society up, that is not the case anyways.