Not a great comfort considering food is 150% higher and fertilizer is 300% and headed for 4-500% higher. Food will be at 200% or more my the last quarter compared to a couple of years ago.
I imagine when those 3rd world countries are at famine levels, our fedgov will send them any extra we might have just like we're sending weapons to Ukraine. The US is being slowly looted.
“I imagine when those 3rd world countries are at famine levels, our fedgov will send them any extra we might have just like we’re sending weapons to Ukraine. The US is being slowly looted.”
We in the US will bitch and moan about high food prices. But no one here will starve to death. Our poor will continue to die from obesity related causes. The rest of the world, including China...a nuclear power, will start seeing WWII levels of famine and death. That has the potential to drag the US citizens into more death than we would ever see from starvation. The wars that start as nations thrash around like drowning victims has lots of potential to cause death here even if no bombs fall in California. Fallout WILL. Therefore, I’m in favor of sending as much as we can wherever it is needed, regardless of what it does to the prices here. Also, we have technology that simply can’t be used because of liberals and their “pure” food fetishes. Let’s face it there are NO foods that we eat today that have not been genetically modified in some way. If you ever get the chance to even see what oranges originally came from you won’t recognize them, let alone eat them.
This war started because our president looked weak and confused. Wars only start when you lose deterrence and when Biden stumbles the world’s heart pauses and the West holds its breath. But because the world had become so interconnected and globalized, something at some time was bound to interrupt the clockwork functions that allowed us to order a phone that had parts built in a dozen countries and was assembled in China and then arrived at our door in just five days...for a very reasonable price. As long as we had a tough acting president everyone (secretly) respected that interruption was not going to be a war started by Russia. But, here are. Now, we’re going to suffer high fuel and food prices. That’s the price we pay for whatever it is that happened in the 2020 election.
“Slowly being looted ...”
Gee. I’m so glad it isn’t being looted FAST, because that would be terrible, or something.