You think that the US controls the world food supply and can starve other countries into submission? Nope, that is not the case.
“Nope, that is not the case.”
It depends on how you see the use of food as a weapon. Our food aid to starving countries is just getting by. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 795 million people of the 7.3 billion people in the world, or one in nine, were suffering from chronic undernourishment and will be left hungry with nothing at all. Some will get enough to hold them a little while, and some will get their fill. If we strategically slow or stop to some areas, the second group will turn into the starving and will more than double that group, easily.
That will create about 1.5 billion people looking for food. And they will have to look where food is. They are not strong enough, or desperate enough, to come over here, yet. So, will we starve them to death, not for a long while. Will we create unrest that the governments of these people can control. Nope.
So, we don’t have to fight everyone’s fight. We just cut off the food and let time force them to conform. It will happen along with a lot of military action by other countries trying to protect what they have and get. According to Feeding America, there are 41 million people struggling with hunger in the US alone. There are 327 million people in the US. So that means around 12% of our country, with our capacity, are starving. Using the same numbers with the world, and that number is low as their capacity to raise and eat food is far less than ours, of the 7 billion out there, there are an estimated 840 million will go without tonight. And that’s a lot of desperate people. And a whole lot more if we cut the input.
rwood