Military swamp cannot afford to run with globalists and Biden-China. It means death for military swamp. Even if there is zero patriots in it and zero thinking about duty and all that. If current trend of global fuckery + big tech + china influence continues there will be no military in US, swamp or not.
You probably don't understand the extend of this nuclear strike. But say for Azure -Microsoft cloud service, EVERY developer who ever touches anything in Azure has at least one (in fact each person have usually multiple) accounts. Half of India IT has azure accounts, now all need to provide bunch of documentation, go through validation and so on. Every developer who ever touches AWS - same thing. Top cloud IaaS are all US jurisdiction. This is biblical level of fuck you.
Mexico would gladly take over food production for tripple the price. Canada prairies would love to have a boom in grain production. Price on food, even if was to skyrocket is pennies for US as compared to Africa income, yet even most of the Africa manages to live for a $1 a day. No government would collapse, everyone honest will lose everything they had, big corporations would make amazing profit out of it, that's all.
"do today's kids even know what a stick is?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0MKBdD2FGA