Argentina only suffered a bad economy. It never went SHTF. Should the US go broke and civil unrest happen, everything ferfal and others say will not apply whatsoever. Argentina still had police and judges and civil authority. It was seriously criminal in nature but it was there.
It’s hard to say if all of the “stops” of civil order will be smashed or not. No doubt many of our urban areas will go totally out of control, and the fedgov will attempt to impose emergency measures, aka some form of martial law.
But will the situation just devolve straight to TSHTF/TEOTWAWKI, in short order? I’m not sure of that. It might stabilize at some “Argentina 2002” level, or slowly crumble from there to total permanent collapse. Even in the case of a slow collapse, there is very likely to be a period with “Argentina 2002” conditions. In that event, which I think is likely, the lessons in the book will prove invaluable.
I was in Beirut in 1983. That city, formerly “The Paris of the Middle East,” went through 15 years of bloody total civil war. Snipers, car bombs, etc. Yet, people still had to find work to eat, and had to get to work and so on, even as snipers fired 2 blocks away and car bombs went off in the area daily.