"I think you have a very optimistic view of our fellow Americans. I saw them get desperate when they couldn't take a shower for 2 weeks. Another 2-3 month and m

"I think you have a very optimistic view of our fellow Americans. I saw them get desperate when they couldn't take a shower for 2 weeks. Another 2-3 month and many would have pledged allegiance to the first country providing hot showers and hot egg mcmuffins." Well I am not an American but I have lived in the USA. I think underestimating Americans as weak hedonists who don't have the iron in their souls for battle would be to make the same mistake the Japanese did in WW2. The Japanese high command (except famously Yamomoto) actually believed that Americans were soft and decadent and couldn't stand up to the tough Japanese soldiers. That didn't turn out so well even before the atom bomb. As to getting desperate about no showers, sure if in peacetime your infrastructure broke down for whatever reason you'd get desperate. But when you are at war, and when you are under invasion (an invasion of the United States is well nigh unimaginable today, but just as a thought experiment), the mindset is probably very different.