alt Hacker NewsThere’s probably going to be a famine or famines due to lack of, and expense, of fertilizer resulting in less food for the developing world.
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Add to that the USAID shutdown and other impacts to humanitarian relief caused by the DOGE team. It’s all coming together for a really nightmarish time for developing countries
Despite being positioned in a way that should shield from the more immediate impacts, I keep wondering if that would actually happen at this point. Most parties seem to try hard to avoid the actual conflict and while not escalating further won't save this year's crops, it shouldn't mean that people will automatically die. It may mean, however, that people will not be able to eat what they want, which, in turn, would mean shortages.
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Yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahlH32Lprto is a video from Peter Zeihan covering that exact topic.
Trump couldn't care less
It really does seem like this war of choice was[1] an absolutely boneheaded idea. It's the kind of thing (and specifically, the lack of consequences or measures to prevent it from being repeated in Cuba or Greenland) that highlights how broken American politics are right now.
1. Not even in retrospect - intelligence agencies knew this was a significant risk and I'd bet your average person on the streets would have come to the realization that it was a bad idea if they thought about it for like a week.