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> but many things tend to work here even if the computers stop working.

Sure, they work. At the pace of 1980's business speed. The U.S. is 4x bigger population and 6x gdp than Germany.



The amount of military power that is used to support that gdp is much larger though. As long as oil is traded in dollars, the us will not have anormal economy.




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