I would see this type of "triage" being very difficult to actually undertake if you weren't a heartless bigot. Even if the commander were, getting the troops to act on the orders would be incredibly hard. I find it difficult to see a group of troops being happy with an order such as "round up everyone over sixty five that doesn't have a useful skill, all the disabled and sick and throw them out to starve".
Even if the troops do that, trying to do it to a population of 3 million is likely to have them tearing you apart in short order. If only one in a hundred decide to resist you have tens of thousands of rioters.
That doesn't even go into the debate about what shape a regimen that is willing to do this will eventually coallesce into. Any government based on these foundations is likely to be totalitarian in the extreme and I don't see them transitioning into anything less totalitarian once the initial crisis was over.
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