It takes a bit of time for fertilizer to return into food. Over a third of global fertilizer, and half the sulfur used to manufacture fertilizer pass through the straight. Fertilizer prices have already spiked, and we are entering planting season. This is on top of what was lining up to be a horrible year for crops because of climate change and a transition from La Niña to El Niño. It’s going to be bad.
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A lot of poorer countries are going to suffer tremendously from this. Not just because of the oil, but because of other products like fertilizer. This is leading us into to a massive worldwide humanitarian disaster.
Every damn time there is a global oil shock the right wing voters are shocked and outraged that US prices go up too. They think the US should somehow be immune because we are net exporters. They don’t get that it’s the oil companies that are the net exporters, not the US populace.
To be fair, that’s exactly the kind of picture that would pop into my head given that prompt. Try to imagine that your nose doesn’t itch.
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They were also defending themselves from a building refugee crisis.
A nation committing a genocide does tend to be aggravated by other nations interfering.
Iran was not about to have nukes. If you listen to Netanyahu, Iran has been a week away from having nukes for decades.
If Iran did get nukes, why would that be a threat? You think Iran would be interested in putting their arsenal up against the United States? Using a nuke would be national suicide. All it would do is provide them protection from regime change wars.
How do you get there from what was an ongoing genocide and an immanent threat? Has NATO ever bombed a country because they might attack in 30 years? There is your answer.
At least in that circumstance there were already active hostilities that did threaten to flood NATO countries with Albanian refugees trying to escape ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, and a strong possibility that the conflict would expand into NATO states.
In this war with Iran there is nothing but Israeli bloodthirst and an American President who desperately needs a distraction and something to regroup his base.
That’s terrible! Would anyone happen to know where that warehouse might be? Asking for a friend.
Given the US record on nation building, I think we might just want to pass on that obligation.
That comes when the US supply of interceptors runs out before the Iranian supply of missiles and drones.
The right wing parties shift away from the center. Not so much the left leaning parties.
I do know our history, and in October 1962 the odds of nuclear war were less than the odds of a climate apocalypse today, because they weren’t 100%.
As bad as trump is, has he murdered 13 million innocent people yet?
Yet? No. But he is on course. The estimated number of deaths from his illegal USAID cuts is actually 14 million by 2030. That’s one policy. I expect that number will be dwarfed by the long term impacts of his environmental policy. Then we have the pending excitement in Iran to worry about. A nation of 93 million people can throw at least a few million more lives on the pyre before all is done.
Nuclear was was always an apocalypse that might happen. Climate change is an apocalypse that is happening.
Hitler was bad, but he didn’t have anything like the arsenal and intelligence networks available to Trump. We have the consentration camps, and the death camps too, although those are outsourced in other countries.
Nope, I live in a wealthy first world country with the capacity to not be damned either way. I will almost certainly be inconvenienced, but realistically I’ll be fine.
Lots of people will be “damned” though, and there are far better solutions to climate change than letting them starve because of Zionist warmongers.