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jalapenojabout 20 hours ago
It’s a sacrifice israel is willing to make.
TitaRusellabout 19 hours ago
Or Trump. In his own words he doesn't care about American citizens financial troubles at all.

One wonders if the people who hated Biden for egg prices feel any shame at all?

nielsbotabout 11 hours ago
Not really. It’s a cult.

Well there’s a handful. For them you can suggest

https://leavingmaga.org

herskoabout 20 hours ago
Here are two articles Reuters wrote about how the war in Ukraine was going to do something similar in 2022[1][2]. Make of this what you will.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/graphics/UKRAINE-CRISIS/FOOD/zjvqkgo... [2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-war-ukraine-bla...

delectiabout 20 hours ago
Also worth noting that a deal was worked out a few months later, before things could get bad. https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112880942/ukraine-grain-expo...
gambitingabout 20 hours ago
And like other articles pointed out, wealthy western countries will always just outbid poorer countries for their food. No one in Germany, Poland or the UK was going to go hungry without the grain or fertilizer from Ukraine - but it does mean we have a much tighter supply than before, and poorer countries got quite literally priced out. Combined with the reduction of foreign aid(not just by US) there is a humanitarian crisis going on in a lot of places as a direct consequence of this. This is "just" going to make the existing problems worse.
TitaRusellabout 18 hours ago
Wait a minute! Dutch people were forbidden from buying more than 2 bottles of sunflower oil for a few months!

It was my generation's 1945 winter of starvation.

SaucyWrongabout 16 hours ago
The knock-on effects of a prolonged Hormuz closure will coincide nicely with those of a super El Niño, if one develops as predicted this year.
shartsabout 9 hours ago
Meh they said that about Ukraine as well.
martythemaniakabout 20 hours ago
Tough problem! Perhaps the US commentariat should listen to Thomas Friedman's wisdom and start loudly hectoring the rest of the world to step up and fix this problem.
bdcravensabout 20 hours ago
Or we could just accept defeat and leave.