That same military lost against Vietnam and the Taliban.
They are not gonna nuke their own cities, and they are massively outnumbered on a guerrilla warfare type of situation.
I agree we should hope it doesn’t come to this and we should and are building an alternate system. But if the old system attacks the new system people like eric are not just gonna take it, or flee to El Salvador.
The Venezuelan economy imploded yet the same people have the power because they have the guns. Erosion of purchasing power is not gonna change the fact these people will use violence and coercion to take your stuff