they'll either win, and become a local or regional power, or else they'll die off / get absorbed.
but that may take weeks / months / years and they can kill you and your fam and everyone else in 100km long before.
one of the conceits of nuclear bunkers was that there would be a lot of walking wounded and a lot of starving, crazy people for 6-12 weeks after the bombs go, on top of waiting for the worst of the radiation to dissipate. yeah those folks would die off but it's gonna be an ugly couple of months till then...
but that may take weeks / months / years and they can kill you and your fam and everyone else in 100km long before.
one of the conceits of nuclear bunkers was that there would be a lot of walking wounded and a lot of starving, crazy people for 6-12 weeks after the bombs go, on top of waiting for the worst of the radiation to dissipate. yeah those folks would die off but it's gonna be an ugly couple of months till then...