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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.r

• gambiting 4mo 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.
  • TitaRusell 4mo 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.
• delecti 4mo 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-exports-deal https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112880942/ukraine-grain-expo...