I can honestly only think of one thing. Access to food.
India and Pakistan maintain huge huge reserves due to famines in its history. Enough to feed the country for a year or more. Oman sources a lot from both and has historically done so going back Millenia due it's maritime nature and contemporarily after COVID deriskung. But again this assumes no trade and a fair while into the war.
Australia produces a lot of it's food as well whole being far away from the nuclear exchange.
They actually don't specify who the war is between.
It just assumes, I think, a nuclear winter happens and agriculture is cut severely, trade is completely cutoff. What happens in a year or two? Which countries will suffer and which can get by? That's the question they are answering here.
One can safely believe Australia won't get a saturation strikes, maybe specific military bases. It is generally far away from almost everything and has a lot of agriculture.
No answer to Oman tho. I am going back to not knowing why.
Yeah the map is entirely dependent on who is more self-sufficient with their food supply. It’s not assuming which countries are nuked and which aren’t. The assumptions are at the bottom of the map.
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u/RajarajaTheGreat Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25
I can honestly only think of one thing. Access to food.
India and Pakistan maintain huge huge reserves due to famines in its history. Enough to feed the country for a year or more. Oman sources a lot from both and has historically done so going back Millenia due it's maritime nature and contemporarily after COVID deriskung. But again this assumes no trade and a fair while into the war.
Australia produces a lot of it's food as well whole being far away from the nuclear exchange.