You are all skating around the real problem.
Energy; that is where we will come up against it all.
When the power shortage occurs and load shedding is a daily exercise
and factories either close for half the day or give up altogether, then
we will be faced with food shortages because fertilisers will be
unobtainable by farmers as happened in Sri Lanka.
In such a situation there will be money rationing together with petrol
rationing, the 15 minute rule will be fully in force.
I can foresee a time of real rationing imposed by government just like
the covid restrictions were imposed.
You might say it was a practise run for the real thing.

It could be a running down of society as function after function fails.
Hospitals would I believe be early failures because the ill are disposable.
All because power generators were scrapped, or blown up before the
replacement generation was in place.
There is no way they can be replaced in a hurry especially during a
period of power shortage and material shortages.

THEY REALLY ARE STUPID !