Coming in a little late to this, but this is serious tinfoil gay stuff.
There are three biggies to survival: edible food, drinkable water and shelter.
So under those conditions, which places are going to be the first screwed if the grid drops? The cities right? I thought there were projections that NYC is always within 72 hours of mass starvation once the food stops.
So the initial population culling from an event like this is going to be in the cities. So Blacks, Hispanics and White Liberals are going to die first, and in numbers. And any immediate response by DHS and the National Guard will be aimed at the cities. Hopefully those responders will bring enough food and water with them to satisfy the locals. Otherwise THEY become targets too.
The white gun owning bible toting bitter clingers will hang on a bit longer. And would be the ones left to pick up the piecess. And given that they’re the ones WITH the skills to do so ...
Not sure if this particular administration would embark on that path.
As to whether the US would be collapsed to remove it from the world stage (losing 90% of the black/Hispanic/white urban Lib population being an acceptable, if regrettable tradeoff ... er, heroes of the revolution sacrificed to pave the way of progress to the glorious future!), consider that the bulk of major US strategic military power wouldn’t be impacted. Particularly the nuclear triad and specifically the SSBN force.
People keep talking about “One Second After”. Which is a very good micro look at the effects of a colllapse. People tho should also read the “Without Warning” trilogy by Aussie John Birmingham. Birmingham’s books are more pulpish in nature, but they do effectively show what the geopolitical picture would look like, in an event in tbe US that only left part of the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Hawaii with living human beings.