Over the last 30 years, the outsourcing of industry and manufacturing to developing countries has shown how fragile the supply chain is when a bad ideology takes hold of people who only have profit in mind. The domino effect does not end here, but continues with the manic approach of a carbon-neutral planet and the belief that green energy will fill the gap previously provided by carbon-based energy. Suddenly, gas supplies from the east, so cheap, are becoming a burden on a nation that has recklessly placed itself at the mercy of a despot who can cut off supplies at any time. To make matters worse, we are now facing food shortages that will be exacerbated by a war that no one wanted to see coming. 30 years of bad policy and poor planning by 1st world nations drunk on ideology can only lead to a very serious rethink by all of us.
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Sean Meister
2 years ago
Neo-Liberal globalists have been strong-arming nations for decades to avoid disruption to global trade networks. The simple truth is that they all sold the family silver in return for getting disgustingly rich. A country without food or energy sufficiency is absurdly vulnerable. If the war doesn’t end soon then 2023 is going to be a bad time.
Spencer Andrew
2 years ago
Another great article covering a side-effect of this war that interests me.
You’re doing some excellent work at the moment Aris, thank you
Katharine Eyre
2 years ago
It may also be possible for land enrolled in a conservation programme in the States to be freed up temporarily to alleviate the crisis: https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/increase-us-food-production-in-response-to-war-in-ukraine-says-key-senator
This ripple effect on food security must have factored into Putin’s plans for this invasion. It provides significant short- to medium term leverage in negotiations as the West’s overriding interest is going to be to stop this war ASAP before the said indirect consequences of food insecurity/famine set in. Ukraine will come under increasing pressure from Western actors to sign away parts of its territory.
Stephen Walshe
2 years ago
Turns out there are nasty consequences to signalling that the West is politically unable to sustain a war, and will not invest in its own defence, eh Aris?
JR Stoker
2 years ago
I know more or less nothing on Ukrainian farming, but know a bit about UK farming. Is this article based on research? The wheat crop has not yet been sown, or will not be so, is that a fact? Because it strikes me with modern agriculture machinery it will not take much labour to sow the Ukrainian farmlands. Let us hope the Ukrainian farmers will be there to harvest them though.
Lennon Ó Náraigh
2 years ago
Sounds like another Arab Spring might be on the way. I hope this one ends up better than the last one.
The USA is expert in that area, 2 Japanese cities were vaporised with atomic bombs but another 67 were incinerated by dropping up to a quarter of a million Petro. jelly bombs on them in each raid. Vietnam (French Indo China) they carpet bombed right across into Laos. Iraq 2, “we will bomb them back into the stone age”, with Shock and Awe. Libya, Hillary said “we came, we saw, he died”. Afghanistan, no government connection to Bin Ladin, but they had t bomb someone, until Macron called for help with his re-election, that’s why Biden got out so quick, bigger fish to fry.
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JP Martin
2 years ago
“In Yemen, battered by a decade of war and famine, Ukrainian wheat accounts for around a third of the country’s needs”
In Yemen, most of the arable land and water is devoted to the cultivation of khat.
james curtis
2 years ago
For over 20 years, outspoken politicians in Europe and America have been warning about the expansion of NATO, some questioning whether NATO should still exist. France has unfinished business with Russia, so in expanding it’s new empire up to the Russian Border, it took NATO with it. Russia has complained continually about this and has only received threats in return. The poor Ukrainians die, millions will starve, the whole of Europe could go into recession, for the ambition of a few.
Over the last 30 years, the outsourcing of industry and manufacturing to developing countries has shown how fragile the supply chain is when a bad ideology takes hold of people who only have profit in mind. The domino effect does not end here, but continues with the manic approach of a carbon-neutral planet and the belief that green energy will fill the gap previously provided by carbon-based energy. Suddenly, gas supplies from the east, so cheap, are becoming a burden on a nation that has recklessly placed itself at the mercy of a despot who can cut off supplies at any time. To make matters worse, we are now facing food shortages that will be exacerbated by a war that no one wanted to see coming. 30 years of bad policy and poor planning by 1st world nations drunk on ideology can only lead to a very serious rethink by all of us.
Neo-Liberal globalists have been strong-arming nations for decades to avoid disruption to global trade networks. The simple truth is that they all sold the family silver in return for getting disgustingly rich. A country without food or energy sufficiency is absurdly vulnerable. If the war doesn’t end soon then 2023 is going to be a bad time.
Another great article covering a side-effect of this war that interests me.
You’re doing some excellent work at the moment Aris, thank you
It may also be possible for land enrolled in a conservation programme in the States to be freed up temporarily to alleviate the crisis: https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/increase-us-food-production-in-response-to-war-in-ukraine-says-key-senator
This ripple effect on food security must have factored into Putin’s plans for this invasion. It provides significant short- to medium term leverage in negotiations as the West’s overriding interest is going to be to stop this war ASAP before the said indirect consequences of food insecurity/famine set in. Ukraine will come under increasing pressure from Western actors to sign away parts of its territory.
Turns out there are nasty consequences to signalling that the West is politically unable to sustain a war, and will not invest in its own defence, eh Aris?
I know more or less nothing on Ukrainian farming, but know a bit about UK farming. Is this article based on research? The wheat crop has not yet been sown, or will not be so, is that a fact? Because it strikes me with modern agriculture machinery it will not take much labour to sow the Ukrainian farmlands. Let us hope the Ukrainian farmers will be there to harvest them though.
Sounds like another Arab Spring might be on the way. I hope this one ends up better than the last one.
Depends on which side the US wants to fund/bomb into dust this time.
Only Putin does that.
The USA is expert in that area, 2 Japanese cities were vaporised with atomic bombs but another 67 were incinerated by dropping up to a quarter of a million Petro. jelly bombs on them in each raid. Vietnam (French Indo China) they carpet bombed right across into Laos. Iraq 2, “we will bomb them back into the stone age”, with Shock and Awe. Libya, Hillary said “we came, we saw, he died”. Afghanistan, no government connection to Bin Ladin, but they had t bomb someone, until Macron called for help with his re-election, that’s why Biden got out so quick, bigger fish to fry.
“In Yemen, battered by a decade of war and famine, Ukrainian wheat accounts for around a third of the country’s needs”
In Yemen, most of the arable land and water is devoted to the cultivation of khat.
For over 20 years, outspoken politicians in Europe and America have been warning about the expansion of NATO, some questioning whether NATO should still exist. France has unfinished business with Russia, so in expanding it’s new empire up to the Russian Border, it took NATO with it. Russia has complained continually about this and has only received threats in return. The poor Ukrainians die, millions will starve, the whole of Europe could go into recession, for the ambition of a few.