[rdcbn1]

The insane oil policy of the Biden Admin completely ignores the fact that a substantial fraction of the oil produced in the US is used for fertilizer, vital chemicals, plastics precursors and pharmaceuticals - none of which has impact CO2 emissions or energy production. This mismanagement is eerily reminiscent to the economic mismanagement of the Soviet economy of the 1920s and 1930s that created an economic implosion that gave rise to the chaos and starvation that drove the sever repression. I fear history is repeating itself, this time on a global scale that will hard hit in the less developed and vulnerable areas of the world.

[gleeaikin]

The primaary cause of the Soviet starvation before WW2 was the forced collectivation of the Kulaks, the successful farmers whose ruination caused production to plumet.