Iraq's pre-war HDI was 0.560[1]. The US's in the same year was 0.865[2]. People will indeed always find a way to adapt! But I think these comparisons are funda

Iraq's pre-war HDI was 0.560[1]. The US's in the same year was 0.865[2]. People will indeed always find a way to adapt! But I think these comparisons are fundamentally suspect: there really hasn't been think kind of mass-scale infrastructure collapse in a country nearly remotely developed as the US (or Canada, or the EU). The closest thing would probably be the war in Ukraine, and even there the infrastructure failures are relatively localized. [1]: https://countryeconomy.com/hdi/iraq https://countryeconomy.com/hdi/iraq [2]: https://countryeconomy.com/hdi/usa https://countryeconomy.com/hdi/usa