#Did Mary Jabassa give her machete back to the Vuvalini General?

[aquitainequeen]

Dwelling on the theme of abundance in Furiosa, and how people are ready and willing to kill in order to protect their copious bounty - but they're severely lacking the resources to do so.

Mary Jabassa sets off after the bikers who kidnapped Furiosa, determined to rescue her daughter and protect the Green Place...armed only with a sniper rifle and a handful of bullets. That's it. And she sets off alone because she knows the Vuvalini can't spare anyone other than her; all the other warriors are needed to guard the Green Place. How many bullets and rifles do they have between them?

Immortan Joe has an army of nearly a thousand War Boys and is able to effectively defend the Citadel and all the abundance within, but their failure to prevent the capture and hijacking of a War Rig is what gives Dementus the key to Gas Town. The Black Thumbs of the Citadel constantly have to build bigger and better rigs to allow the three Wasteland fortresses to safely trade with each other, otherwise the whole system will collapse.

Dementus is granted control of Gas Town, loudly proclaiming what a beneficent ruler he will be...and then runs the place into the ground, whether by design or via incompetence. Lacking the mental resources to operate with such power and responsibility or the physical resources that Joe intentionally and deliberately withheld. He gains and loses the Bullet Farm in perhaps a day and the abundance of weaponry and producing those weapons is lost or destroyed, because he and his forces had no way of reckoning with the powerhouses of Furiosa and Jack.

Even during the 40 Days War Scrotus, one of the sons of Immortan Joe, is prevented from going out into the battlefield because his car has lost a wheel and a suitable replacement is elusive. Even one of the most important men in the Citadel, surrounded by an abundance of vehicles, must wait and stew while the War Boys desperately try to find a way to get his car moving again.