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how does this work when the country is bankrupt? who will pay the military soldiers? It sounds they have no money/credit to pay for for oil/gas...
seems like a terrible situation all around.
Pay? No one. In situations like this with no more rule of law, whoever has the monopoly on violence and firearms can decide how they want to be "paid" by forcibly taking other people's wealth and belongings (or whatever will be left of it).
Bloody times will come soon.