Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
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Imagine telling ancient Romans that Egypt is going to be the largest wheat IMPORTER... they would think you're joking.
Imagine telling them that Germanic people will be a rich nation or the celts will be part of the world most powerful navy for a time ship made form wood to metals
ironic.
Egypt is a overpulated nation.
Imagine telling Romans that Europe is richer than Africa
@@themercifulguard3971 Imagine telling Romans that everyone would laugh at Italian military
It's crazy how Historical days seem pretty normal when you're living in one.
@@nate4z and here we are complaining abt gasoline prices
@@latenightthinker4737 Is suffering quantifiable?
@@yourerightimwrong4567 would you rather pay a bit more for gasoline or die of famine and disease. You philosophy tipes are only smart on paper, but in real life your knowledge (and obviously your question) is naive and useless.
Weird, but we are literally living through some of the craziest times in recent history.
That's because our species has always been batshit crazy...
The worst part is that these people who are making political decisions will not suffer any effects of famine
And will probably die before they really get to live in the world they make
@@mihael64 thats the problem with old dictators. They dont have to meet their own monsters
Cuz they f_ks dont give a fuk bout the rest of the world they do for self n keep more for theyselves n give as lirtle as they can to the rwst of the world...keep 8...give 2. Keep 18. Give 2. Ya know?
Complaining about the puppet masters and their agenda is considered antisemitic
This content is getting next level. Thank you for putting so much work into them. Just don't get all Vsauce on me and disappear at your peak!
Ha. Great point. @VSauce are you listening?
yes, more than average
You call this good content? Dude literally said “war in Ukraine.” Go to any city in southern Russia, they are being constantly shelled, then you’ll won’t call this good content anymore because it’s pure bias.
@@MM-pv5tp so surely I should trust the copypaste commenter with an empty account made in 2021
@@MM-pv5tp bot moment
It’s amazing that a TH-cam channel is FAR more informative than multinational news organizations with thousands of employees. Keep up the great work.
News outlets are
1. Biased
2. Tell you the biggest scoop
3. Sometimes they don't do proper research
dont b fooled, whats on youtube is part of i
yeah thousands of employees paid to spoon feed you bullshit that rots your brain until you're one of them
Main stream is to into fake news anymore! You really have to watch them and then see if you can debunk what they're talking about. It's completely ignorant to how the news is handled today. Someone should ban lying!
This guy is another shilling for Biden and the west's agenda
How easy it is to forget that our comfortable, everyday lives depend so delicately on the events of faraway countries.
im scared
The main reason I that the whole world lives in socialism.
West Europe and USA socialism is hard.
Many businesses ran away to less tax farming countries.
Now these countries get into problems and everything go to crap.
China is about to collapse as well, since communism is the most brutal socialism based regime and socialism never works.
Time to stock on bullets, cans and other resources.
Ah you are new to this I see
EVIL COUNTRIES ..FULL OF HATE FOR WHAT ??? JULY 3rd, 2022
That's what the powerful rich want you to be believe
It's hard to put into words how necessary viewing your honest factual work is. You're a modern historian. Hope all this is backed up and shielded somehow someway. ✨👍🏻🖤
You call this good content? Dude literally said “war in Ukraine.” Go to any city in southern Russia, they are being constantly shelled, then you’ll won’t call this good content anymore because it’s pure bias.
Great video. Here in South America it is impressive how this crisis has been handled with so much ignorance. I believe that the combined exports of food from Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay could ease the situation in the Middle East or other parts of the world. And somehow our leaders and our people have greatly ignored such oppurtunity, even if simply from a purely economic perspective.
The solution is to break away from Europe if you're not European country. Sort yourselves out like you did before colonialism and farm so you don't rely on Woolworths.
They export to the people who pay more, they are capitalists, also there are shortages in South America too, food is incredibly expensive right now and it's getting worse and worse.
Yeah, the opportunity of raising prices for ourselves by reducing our own supply. 5head.
@@bluester7177 It's interesting to note how food prices soared right after massive corporations began acquiring farms like crazy.
@@suzygirl1843 you are 100% correct.
I totally agree with you.
I'm super grateful that you cover the war so well and so often, And that its free to watch here on YT. Major respect!
It needs to be. This war is one of the most important and tragic events since ww2.
TH-cam is boon for mankind
@@reek4062 calm down. Tell that to the Iraqis, Syrians, Palestinians, oh yeah no-one cares about them.
David Beasley: We need money to distribute food around the world.
US government: Let's give $45.000.000.000 to the weapon manufacturers to make more weapons.
I’m grateful that I have food and a roof over my head and I am not in a war zone.
That might change with the saber rattling from both sides.
Europe (particularly Italy) is also suffering a massive drought. The Po river (the dominant water supply to the ONLY large plains in the country, which produce a vast part of all our grains and 40% of all agricoltural output overall) is down over *80%* in flow compared to a normal year. Looking at the river in person is _actually scary, the water barely moves. The Po delta is suffering *20km* of seawater intrusion and this is already causing an ecological catastrophe (the Po Delta is a natural park). This is the lowest flow level ever recorded.
Water is already being rationed in hundreds of villages and smallt owns and there have been constant talks of possible region-wide rationing all over northern Italy.
Last week in my region (Piemonte, where the Po starts) a decision has been made to begin emergency discharging hydroelectric reservoirs to try saving the crops, but this can only buy us another 2 to 3 weeks, as the reservoirs are already at critical levels themselves owing to the fact that VIRTUALLY NO SNOW fell on any of our mountains throughout the entire winter.
There has been _some_ rain in the last couple days but it was only enough to allow us to stop the emergency discharging and no more.
Neighbouring regions are in the same boat and cannot help, and now the drought is reaching critical levels in central Italy as well, with the south not far behind.
Basically unless this turns out to be the rainiest July of all time we are super fucked.
edit: I just checked and seawater has now reached 30km inland.
The US west has several states in similar conditions. There is not enough water for agriculture or power individually, definitely not enough water for both. Climate change is coming in an obvious way, and we are nowhere near ready with clean replacements to the ever more expensive and rare fossil fuels... I am atheist, but times like this make me want to pray to some powerful thing for help.
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” -Carl Sagan
@@ToxicityAssured the sad part is, we alteady have the research to lessen water usage in farms. Israel has developed underground irrigation systems so that the water is not evaporating when just tossed in the air on to the plant but the water is directly taken to the roots of the plants. But our companies don't want to do that due to expense. But companies are the ones wasting water.
@@ToxicityAssured IMO its more about the land being dry. Plant more forests, more diverse forests and forest lines between fields and just generally more green stuff instead of draining all the water down the rivers.
@@pugdad2555 And we also have a way to stop this from getting worse. We've had it for decades. It's nuclear power.
Nuclear power could solve literally all of our problems. Yes, it's expensive, but it's a hell of a lot less expensive than the consequences of fossil fuels.
Portugal too. A lot of dams are extremely dry because this winter we had very, very little rain.
Author, your speech is very clear and competently delivered, as a TV news anchor, my English is not at the highest level, but I understand almost everything without subtitles.
I love your empirical analysis of all aspects of this war. Even taking weather and natural disasters into account. That's a sub from me! Keep up the good work!
The other country to worry about is Sri Lanka, which is already suffering hyperinflation and massive food shortages, because they rely on Russian, Ukrainian and Indian grain, of which they can get none currently.
Presumably they will be one of the first to get Australia's excess grain this year, given their location. Price will still be higher than usual, due to global markets, but they're within the geographic area that will likely see a stabilisation as supply chains sort themselves out to use what Australia has.
Shame he didn't mention the Australian situation briefly in this video, Australia's recovering from drought & has perfect conditions for growing right now. November 2021 saw a tripling of exports compared to Nov 2020 & who knows how much this next season will produce, but it's going to be a LOT, since now/last month or 2 is the planting season, so after the Ukraine situation became apparent, Australia was the first country to be putting wheat into the ground & a LOT has gone in & it's a diverse range of varieties too, with the intention of picking up the exports that Ukraine & Russia usually supply, so you are in a seriously good position geographically in Sri Lanka, I think you're even closer to Australia than Ukraine/Russia, so Australia will have you in mind as a future long term customer & will be looking to secure that by providing everything possible
@@mehere8038 Sri Lanka's money is going to be so worthless that they won't be able to afford to eat this year.
Dont forget, Sri Lanka BANNED fertilizer. They created their own problem.
Is climate & lack of resources harming the ability to farm?
they actually ran out of fuel
0:39 David Beasley’s speech
1:23 Global food supply problem in 02.2022
4:14 Ukraine’s agricultural importance
6:04 Egypt’s reliance on import
8:08 No harvesting of wheat
11:53 High risk region
13:21 Lithuania proposing a naval coalition
13:54 Iran Iraq war
17:37 14th April “Moskva” warship sinking
18:28 Turkey and Montreux convention
23:48 Fertiliser production
29:14 Countries that will struggle to feed their population
Thank you!
TLDR the wheels are popping off the globalist truck as it's headed straight into a wall: An entire planet made the ridiculous mistake of relying on a little country near a little sea for its food instead of doing the effort to grow its own, now it's about to pay for its stupidity. Looking at the bigger picture from a perspective of interests, it would have been crazy for Russia not to invade Ukraine at this particular point in time, they were very lucky and / or very smart on it (prolly a mixture of both). Everything's stacked in their favor due to various factors: The timing and circumstances of the attack make up for Russia's poorly trained military and ancient equipment, hence they can continue the war as Ukraine and the West grow weakened and are thus less able to match them.
Thx
Doing the Lord's work.
Doing the Lord's work.
This was always the problem with globalization, when someone throws a war, even if you're not invited, and you really don't care, you still get screwed.
I don't disagree, but you could also see it as a problem with war (it hinders globalization because it incentivizes countries to be independent)
Defeating war will be one of mankind's top achievements throughout all time. It's better if on your table of options as a political power that you see for war only disincentives.
This is also one of the main benefits of globalization. If someone throws a war, the entire world has economic reasons to be against them.
If you think about it when men are in war.... The true self comes out and bad people die sometimes friendly fire. But wars have advanced civilization more than any other single thing in history. Not to mention population control. I have a theory that the reason that there's so many rapists and child molesters nowadays is because there's less major wars with the Advent of nuclear weapons countries don't want to go to a full scale war no more. But say you're fighting in a war and you see one of your guys raping a woman or a child or doing some evil thing.... you kill him. I think that helped keep the predators down. And with no major wars in 70 years we got molesters and rapists on almost every block. Just saying 🤣
Thanks for the great and important video!
Here in Romania, neighbour of Ukraine, the ukrainians brought a lot of their grain to store it in our silos so they are safe, and it is so much that our farmers won't have any storage space when harvest time comes. The only hope right now is that they will be able to sell their grain until autumn, but to be honest, I highly doubt it. Our crops might end up rotting in the fields as well as the urkainian crops.. God Help Us I guess.
can't they build extra silos?
@@seadkolasinac7220 That takes time, space, planning, and money. Not that simple especially for the amount of grain Drago's is referring too.
Eetu bc urt
Yeah…Moldolva is next, soon they’ll be next door
@@Dankatron69 how about shipping it to Cyrus for a extra fee and hold on to it
As an Egyptian this makes me truly sad. Egypt used to be the food basket of the Roman Empire in 210BC. Look how far we have fallen :(
Only took 2,200 years
Libya was actually.
@@MagnaMater2 Aswan dam....Suez canal....cotton, and the fellahs who still farm the Nile, are managing quite well...and Rome used Libya as their bread basket, not Egypt.
That was 2400 years ago, this is the problem with you third worlders you use the past as your source of pride when the past doesn't exist anymore. What have you done since then? barely anything that's what except attack the West with terrorism, rape and disease.
@@scottleft3672As far as I remember it was only during Late Antiquity the provinces of Africa and Cyrene turned the main producers for the army and also - together with Crete - ran the military fleet to deliver the grain. In the Late Republic and the Early Principat it was Egypt that fed the City of Rome directly, because there was a growing food shortage and Caesar, Anthony and Augustus used donations of egyptian grain as political leverage. - Up to Marc Aurel the most important question was, who was the Governor of Egypt, those turning into the most feared men with most influence in Rome. If the - modern - estimations are correct, the whole of northern Africa had only to feed about 8,5 million inhabitants and produced far more grains than it could use.
Farmers usually were the last to go hungry ere they invented those seeds one can't replant the next year but has to buy every year, and one is only a crop-failure away from bancrupcy. If Egypt could still easily feed their whole population, there would be no reason to worry, unless there is food-speculation and big scale-hoarding - or they buy it as donations for their southern neighbours. Planting cotton in a population-hotspot is as reckless as planting crops for bio-diesel.
Turkey produces more than enough wheat and grain for its own population, but it exports WAY MORE than it produces and all the imports basically go to value added product like flour, spaghetti etc. Mainly being exported to Egypt, Algeria, Iraq etc
Thank you for your very interesting and excellently researched Videos :)
That's why I laugh at economists who state that the food production of the world is fine, therefore the food levels around the world are fine. Food production is different from food distribution and the latter is the one affecting countries in Africa and Asia.
Africa and Asia aren't countries.
Africa an Asia are not countries. I guess you meant to write .. in Africa and Asia ?
@@pepitoPerez344 Correct grammar is Africa AND Asia.
I laugh at people calling Africa and Asia countries.
@@jordanthomas2031 yeah that's called a typo, it's not a grammar mistake
Just a small note related to the percentages of import. When you point out for example that 75% of a countries import of wheat comes from Ukraine, doesn't mean that they lost 75% of their wheat supply, they might as well still produce 90% of their wheat domestically, and import only the remaining 10%, which means they are able to import only 2.5% of those 10. Would be nice to actually get those numbers, as in, how much a country produces by itself and how much is it reliant on imports. Makes a huge difference in my opinion. Not trying to depreciate the impact of all the events, just want to get correct numbers.
Great video as always.
That's a BIG assumption you're making about domestic production. And domestic production is readily available. It's weird that you're pretending that it's not just to push your agenda.
@@B3Band What assumption? I was the one asking for more information and clarification about the numbers. If a country imports 90% of its wheat and the imports get cut by 75%, that is huge and a catastrophe as well. But if a country only imports 10% or 15%, imports dropping that much isn't such a big deal. I'm not assuming anything, I'm asking why there is no percentage added next to the countries on how much they actually import and how much they can handle domestically.
And what agenda am I pushing? Didn't even argue about anything, just pointing out that the displayed information can have different impact depending on some other factors.
I see Where your Coming from but These are countrys in the middle of the desert and there population is really High so i would assume a big part is imports.
That is an incredibly important point!
Most countries have _some_ domestic food producrion, especially in poor nations a lot of people get by on subsistence farming, so its certainly not to be negated.
Great video! As someone who has done a lot of research on Russia and the Russian invasion I can definitely say that the invasion could indeed have huge consequences. Hopefully the war can be ended asap to mitigate the effects🙏
It won't, the famine is caused by the sanctions which won't stop even if Russia removes it's troops, thank your government
You can thank American democrats for it for brewing this war past 8 years
You call this good content? Dude literally said “war in Ukraine.” Go to any city in southern Russia, they are being constantly shelled, then you’ll won’t call this good content anymore because it’s pure bias.
@@speeble6282 “At least three people killed, buildings damaged in Belgorod
Regional governor says attack intentionally targeted civilians
Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for strikes in Russia”
- Reuters: Moscow blames Ukrainian missile attack for deaths in south Russia city
@@speeble6282 Oh look, NATO bot. At least I’m not brainwashed by NATO propaganda. The source of YOUR claim? Aside from Ukrainian propaganda and your ass of course!
Superb data and information in this video!
Your research is impressive.
Keep it up dude...
In india, where i live, we used to buy two packets of sunflower oil instead of the coconut oil, which seemed a luxurious purchase. Well, no prizes for guessing what we buy now
From the west, I would urge you to support efforts to reduce India's commercial exploitation of the vacuum in Russia created by Western capital flight and embargos. Sure it is an opportunity for a quick rupee, but... unless you outright support Putin's invasion, they kinda are blood rupees.
not in my area
@@balargus319 that’s rich from you considering you use things made through slave labour... you are clueless
Who cares. Pakistan and China will destroy India
@@balargus319 poor people don't care about other people problem because have there hand full, what ever is blood 💵 or heavenly one it's isn't same
Baltic States have the same problem of different rail track gauges, which they are reconstructing at the moment. I did not realize how important Rail Baltica project might actually turn out for them in the nearest future.
Scrap metal. It will be a scrap metal.
The blockade is unaffected by this event, as the island is pretty far from Ukrainian ports.
Just truck it
@@HistoricalWeapons You do understand the huge difference of amount of grain a single truck can carry compared to a single train, right?
@@justinevernera2418 it was already said how big a crisis this can cause. Seems to be the most realistic solution instead of escorting nato and causing a world war
21:09 Love the dolphin enjoying his little toy
Thanks for the free videos!!
"Turkey pursues whatever policy is in Turkey's best interest." I mean, that's kinda true of every country. Realpolitik is pretty universal. The Western countries that have been strongest in their support of Ukraine are those that can afford it (US, UK), or those with an interest in seeing Russia weakened for their own security (Baltic states, Poland)
Thats true, but as a Turk i honestly feel like our foreign policy has been pretty “unique” to say the least. Its somehow anti-west at times and anti-east at others. We both love and work a lot with and hate Israel at the same time. Germany and France is our biggest partners and our most politically shamed ones. It honestly seems like our government makes its desicions on the “now” rather than the future. Not saying its wrong or right, its just different from the other foreign policy desicion making norms.
lots of EU countries doesn't pursuit that, instead they choose whatever path is to the politicians best interest and not their countries.
@@Tago976 Do you think the history of your geography as a world "cross-roads" is part of that mindset?
@@lamay1947 Most likely. And it may come from the fact that we are neither fully european nor fully middle eastern. (Even though I’d argue more European than Middle eastern)
@@Tago976 You have one of the most fascinating histories of any country in the world.
Don't blame Turkey for putting Turkey 1st based on a few thousand years of empires trying to control that land.
On top of all of this, The Netherlands, the 2nd largest food exporter in world is planning on expropriating large pieces of farm land to build more housing, which is why there are farmers protests all over the country
That's the cost of progress, and the price paid for not voting correctly. Unless this is what voters actually want.
@@lucamckenn5932 they don't, most people support the farmers. But rich city boys keep voting for the same parties and somehow after 12 years of lies, manipulation and scandal after scandal the current ruling party is still the largest
@@MySadExistence you have my condolences. We're dealing with our own similar mess in the US. All we can do is try to sway others off the path. Very frustrating, a losing battle against the brainwashed sycophancy of "progressives".
@@lucamckenn5932 good luck! I never truly understood why the US only has 2 parties that stand a chance. Now you're pretty much just choosing which of the 2 is less evil
@@MySadExistence Unfortunately, that what we Americans have to deal with. I wish I could vote for one of our many smaller parties, but to do so would be functionally equivalent to not voting at all; those small parties almost never get enough support to make any meaningful impact on the political landscape.
Amazing job on 6,000,000 subs real life lore! Hope you get to 7,000,000!
Greetings from Sweden.
Keep up the great work with this channel!
lol, i love that you used the Civilization Icons for food crops!
when i saw it i was like oh a man of culture !
One thing that maybe i missed him mentioning is that there was a plague of locust back in 2020 accross north eastern Africa, I don't think it ever got cleared up.
Maybe africans should have secured their food supply before having 5 children on average. Now nature will take care of the overpopulation problem.
@Marcus Reston media dont care about Africa.
Those little brighters "locusts" are an excellent source of protein . And they are kosher too. We should learn how to harvest them. And acquire a taste for them.
@@mariahavraham7507 Never. I will never eat bugs.
@@ok0_0 your resistance is futile and detrimental to your existance. You might see a time in your life where you will either eat a bug or die.
What surprises me the most is that everyone beforehand was saying that Ukraine is a backward unimportant corrupt country. Russia knew, and they planned this years ahead.
Coming winter the EU will be without gas, and they could have been working on this problem for the past 8 years.
But instead they are working on teaching pronouns and legalizing drugs 😂
EU is as corrupt as they claim others to be
@@chad2522 And are still doing infinitely better than Russia and most of the world. Funny how that works.
Already more then enough gas in winter
Remember back in 2020 when we thought if we could just make it through Covid everything would be okay? I miss those days.
It's a perfect storm of events, in mid 2019 I was telling my friends that millions of acres of farmland in America had been wasted (that year) due to rain being off, either too much or not enough, same in India and China, then the "Pig Ebola", then the Locusts in India and the Middle East, then came Covid19 and since then things have only been getting worse in all respects, millions of pigs and chickens culled in USA, China, Africa, etc. now this fertilizer shortage plus the rain not coming (anywhere), I'm not a doomsayer but I have been slowly saving up canned goods.
Am also stocking up. Same ideas as you
The mass cullings needs to stop. It's done for somewhat justifiable reasons but hundreds of thousands of animals can get slaughtered and composted if 1 tests positive for a disease and it routinely causes price hikes and food shortages.
@@lckee820 beans and cornbread!
@@seanbrown9048 3 containers of instant noodles
@@onengkusumah2905 that’s smart, though you still need hot water to eat them; I keep things like beef jerky and Cliff bars, too, though it’s getting really expensive. And lots of canned fruit packed in its own juice.
Romania's ports are paralysed by only a fraction of the supplies Ukraine could export. Also by railway or roads, Romania has an extremely outdated and poor infrastructure in the eastern part. So no, Romania is not a solution unfortunately. Yes, i do live in Romania and i know that part well.
And anyone that expects Joe Biden to lead a "naval coalition of the willing" against Russia is loony tunes.
Unfortunately any shipment method is unlikely the be suitable apart form ships. This is because you would need to bring the empty's back in but most of the rail imports will be weapons not grain bins.
Romania has a big chance to profit from this like japan and south korea did
Um Hungarian and i can say that Romania needs to build a looot if highways. I was theere so ye
yall need to tell ukraine to piss off
Riviting video!
Thanks!
I feel smarter today than I did yesterday as a result.
Fantastic video. Thank you.
As an Indian, i have to say that climate change has decimated the agricultural industry this year. Of the 2 largest river basins, the Ganga-Yamuna plain is unusually dry and the Brahmaputra basin is absolutely flooded out. So the usual exports are also strained. The government banned merchant exports of wheat and are now distributing our little surplus through diplomatic channels. But not before filling up our own silos and building new ones.
Edit: India is still food secure inspite of all this. It's just our exports have been reduced massively. For context, this was growing 200% YoY
Nah.
Indian government is more busy spreading hate against the minorities & proliferation of Hindutva extremism..
Similar things are happening in Pakistan, with the Indus River Basin facing extreme temperatures, that has limited our produce.
I hope situations in both countries get better. A food shortage in any country is always unbearable to witness.
but i dont think india will be affected at all, at least THAT MUCH
edit: nvm
@@disguyplwyz5777 it already is. We are still food secure butfor many, the surplus is not enough to pay back loans.
last year india had a bumper crop, and its not like climate change is a switch that once thrown changes everything. Im not saying the current situation is the result of climate change. But i am saying that climate change may not be entirely to blame either.
It takes about 18 months for disruptions in food production to effect the end consumer. So by about this time next summer, we will be starting to see the worst of the fallout from this. Also remember that because the Middle East is so reliant on wheat from Russia that the Arab Spring was in large part caused by the wheat shortages that occurred when Russia invaded Georgia. This time around, the Arab Spring is going to seem like a quaint little party by comparison.
This decade is going to be one for the history books in all the worst ways.
It's almost like it's part of the plan...
Exactly, the current shortages and inflation are due to much of the world being locked down for our "Safety" (And bad economic policy)
18 months after the war started we will see the real "apocalyptic famine" likely everywhere.
@@KaiserMattTygore927 kinda like how 20th century history has the years 1914-45 take up 80% of the book.. This is the start of the really long chapters of the 21st century.
@@KaiserMattTygore927 The decade world falls into chaos.
This is by far one of the most important video to watch right now.
I love the videos you produce. But after watching this and many other videos from you, do you think you could provide some of the research sources in your comments or description?
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I have been falling your informative videos since a few years. I would like to thank you for all the conent shared. It has significantly improved my understanding of geopolitics and other related topics to improve.
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Something I didn't realise and don't understand: In the times of the Roman Empire, Egypt was the breadbasket that fed Rome. It easily produced more grain than anywhere west of China. Easily the most important province in the Empire besides the city of Rome itself. How exactly did it go from that to being a massive food importer? I had no idea modern Egypt was so food poor. Topic for a video perhaps?
The population of Roman Egypt was significantly smaller than current Egypt. Because of more population, there's more urban areas, which reduce agricultural land. Back then, Aegyptus had a small enough population.
Soil is a finite resource. The nutrients in the soil were used up. Can't have infinite growth on a finite planet.
@@ChalenaRose True. But the historical reason why the soils of Egypt were so fertile was because of the predictable flooding of the Nile. Constantly depositing more silt onto its flood plain, effectively topping up the nutrients in the soil. The Nile still flows, man continues to manage its flooding. So that's not the explanation.
@@antonludwigaugustvonmacken8680 Yet farming technology has also vastly improved since that time. So surely those same lands can now support a much larger population.
@@xJavelin1 The population isn't as invested in agriculture.
Incredible video to say the least. I had little knowledge about this food shortage scenario. A lot of research has been done to make this video and it shows.
You call this good content? Dude literally said “war in Ukraine.” Go to any city in southern Russia, they are being constantly shelled, then you’ll won’t call this good content anymore because it’s pure bias.
@reallifelore, at 15:30 please be careful drawing the lines of Russian blockades near Romania: our country have a strict policy at the border of the Danube Delta. Moreover the snake island has been returned to Ukraine after a conflict with Russian invades, means that there is a path Ukrainian ships to pass thru the black sea, but it`s a narrow path.
As things get bad over the next decade I expect to see more isolationist and self sufficient movements take over as countries have seen things gone bad due to events outside their control
Or in other cases the opposite as some countries become outright client states to survive
Globalism was a BS idea to start with. This is where it leads; local problems are now suddenly global problems. No risk management is beyond stupid.
There aren't many nations that can support their populations within their borders. Autarky is a pipe dream - at least for levels of society that we currently enjoy. I wonder how all of this will play out.
Let their business be theirs and we will mostly be fine.
Yes. Reckless globalism was a mistake. Some countries have grown beyond their means.
The myth that globalism is a modern phenomenon is truly insane a prime example is the Silk Road globalization has always existed it is impossible for a nation to 1. Win enough wars and obtain enough territory to meet all of its nations needs
2. Maintain a viable fighting force to do it
3. Keep a population happy enough through constant warfare
And these same problems arise from an isolationist pov. Maybe before the internet but it’s impossible now to be fully isolationist
I love the Civilization 6 icons used for the corn and the wheat. Great little homage.
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Wow, great content!!!
I wasn’t worried about the United States running out of wheat since we grow a lot of wheat here, but there are a lot countries who rely heavily on Ukraine for wheat and other grains.
What's to stop Farmers in the states from selling food overseas for more profit over here domestically?
how much does u.s produce?
No rich nation has to worry about wheat. For us prices only go up.
It's poorer nations that can't afford those higher prices that suffer.
That's how capitalism functions.
Just buy russian wheat instead
Wheat? Please, when I was in America, no one talked about anything except corn. Corn this, corn that. Should be called United States of Corn.
Your content is great because when this is over you can just rename them to “early stages of WW3”
That’s exactly what this is leading up to. Echoes of 1914.
Adolph is crying rn
@@CCovers1 yea it’s literally the perfect storm in every aspect : food, inequality, civil unrest, inflation etc. but it probably won’t happen, as it will be the last war.
Eh it'll be over by christmas.
and that's probably true this time for all the wrong reasons.
@@CCovers1 exactly right the 2010s have already experienced it’s version of World War One with all the conflict in the Middle East and Africa. It’s no different to World War One as that war only took place in Europe
Congratulations on 6 Million subscribers RealLifeLore, you deserved it!
I live in Yuma Az. during pandemic there was so much wheat surplus silos were full to the top. So they just made piles the size of mountains with tarps on top. Although we are a super dry climate we didn't use the silos for storage cuz they were full. Ukraine could try that. The problem is rain/humility/moisture. That's what makes wheat go bad. Otherwise it's raw product shelf life is years and years
There’s another option to ease the issues of food supply. The federal legalization and incentivized rotation of hemp. Hemp is a rapidly growing filter plant rich in oil and fiber. It removes toxins from the soil, it can be tilled into the soil to enrich the soil (lessening the need for fertilizer) its rapidly growing and makes a vastly superior candidate for bio fuels dramatically lessening the food impact. It can be fed to grazing animals once again greatly lessening the food impact as it doesn’t need to germinate to be used in any of these applications like corn does. When a plant germinates it uses a vast amount of resources to produce its seeds. Corn and what we use as food from it are its seeds. Corn uses an exorbitant amount of resources to grow, it requires a lot of fertilizer and water, hemp does not. Hemp can also be used as a substitute for any fiber. Cotton another germinating water and fertilizer hungry plant could be reduced or replaced with hemp. Further reducing the need for fertilizer, the very oil from the plant is not only medicinal but can be converted into bio fuels and anything else oil is converted into namely again, fertilizer but thousands of other products as well. Hemp because it is rabidly growing produces insane amounts of oxygen, more per square foot than trees in turn sequestering tons of carbon dioxide. Hemp also has built in insecticides when tilled into the soil will reduce future crop loss and lower the need for another item not mentioned in the video but inexorably linked, chemical insecticides derived from oil.
Hemp was at one time federally mandated to be grown in rotation within the U.S. mainly for ship rigging in the age of sail. It was a strategic resource coveted by all governments at the time; that time has come again.
It misses the point … western countries will cope any way in some way … there will be plenty of food, just less exotics and more expensive … its about those countries having limited options … countries that to a large extent consist of desert or other uninhabitable land … most important way forward is that the leaders of those countries relying on food supplies as they otherwise cannot feed their people stop their ignorance and come up with an alternative … the land limits the population … stay there and import food and let the population explode … we all knew that this will lead to disaster … as supply lines could have been interrupted at any time … for years to come … without any other country able to step in as the potential causes are countless.
You clearly are not a farmer... YOu literally have everything wrong.
@@w8stral enlighten me please.
@@TroaBarton You did get one thing right, for ethanol production it is slightly superior per ton, but the estimated tonnage harvested per acre in said study is woefully overvalued. Who knew, advocates bend the truth... who knew... Which does not matter as even if 100% of the land was converted to ethanol production from it stems it still would not be enough nor would its seed into bio diesel be enough. So, why play pretend games? Religious dogma is why. But for you I guess I will go into pretend mode... For animal feed, not correct, it is simply utterly deficcient in other ways and why one must have a varied diet just as you and I would die if we ate nothing but wheat or corn or rice, cows/sheep/pigs etc must have a varied diet as well. On top of this the flavor of the meat would change and is the same reason Grass Fed beef is not exactly what people like to eat even though moving cows as I am doing is far cheaper than feeding them corn/soy per acre. Same reason soil has been killed off in the USA, monoculture. In terms of insecticides, not correct, just different bugs and your point about the soil is 100% not true. Harvesting Hemp is SLOW and expensive, though if done in mass someone would figure out a machine that does not bind up due to its fibers. This is actually frankly a deal breaker and why I planted it one year and never again until this aspect is figured out. Others just put up with it and last I checked, USA is the 3rd largest producer or Hemp in the world currently just surpassing Canada. In terms of fertilizers to grow etc, depends where we are talking about and what rate and same goes with Corn if you use rotational grazing with cover crops massively dropping fertilizer required. Tonnage per acre in good ground? No. Hemp cannot be grown economically over as wide an area lattitude wise, but in terms of water use, it can if all you care about is ethanol. Hemp can be grown compared to corn in poor soils, but still worse than just using that soil for other crops which we still have to eat or FAR better rotational grazing which unlike hemp, build the soil. You didn't get those little facts in your pamphlet of propaganda.
I am sure someone will figure out how better to harvest, grow hemp, but currently, the pamphlet does not meet reality by even 50% of the claims. Maybe it will on poorer soils, but on rich soils that are well watered? Not even close.
@@w8stral I’m not sure here your hostility is warranted or comes from? You seem to have an idea about me that frankly isn’t true. I’m a collector of information from multiple sources about any topic. I’m not weighed down by dogma, religious ideology, nor am I afraid of being proven wrong. As one example I think biofuels are important strategically as wood gas was in WWII for a certain country but idiotic in principle for fuel frankly just as wood gas was. I also think our impact on the climate is woefully overrated in how it is reported and misused for political control. While severely lacking in areas I find more important like airborne carcinogens. The possibility of hemp being used for biofuels over corn which would better be used as food was the point there. It being a filter plant while respirating oxygen would aid in those carcinogenic impacts I’m more concerned about. The smoke stacks of a coal plant throw out more radioactivity than any reactor meltdown could achieve.
You can sheath your sword, to be honest I had a misconception about you as well. As you have surmised I am not a farmer, never claimed to be.
Certainly applications vary and food production is still something that obviously needs to be done. Making the best use of the land and it’s characteristics isn’t only important it obviously makes sense. You’d find me advocating for feed lots and animal husbandry in areas where farmland isn’t available. Or hunting and how it has positive impacts on the ecosystem. As far as the profit laterally that’s why I added the part about incentives. Corn as I’m sure you’re aware is heavily incentivized. Which is why it is in just about everything which frankly isn’t a good thing.
I know of the differences between a diet for cows and pigs and that you have to balance them. I knew about how their diet effects the end product something I’m genuinely interested in is how hemp would effect that. I know about soil erosion and the laws passed to prevent another dust bowl. Admittedly I did not know about the binding issue during harvest (as much as that makes sense) but as you said that would be something eventually overcome just as it was with cotton. I suppose rapidly growing needs context and a comparison. Ground cover not so much, lumber certainly etc.
As for advocates bending the truth it works both ways which is infuriating.. However in aggregate hemp is a very useful and versatile plant. It is hard to beat in its usefulness but it will never compare to an incentivized GMO mono crop and that’s not what I’m suggesting, that isn’t where it’s value lies.
I want to be clear that I am not arguing or debating you. You have a wealth of information I’d happily partake in. I was genuinely asking for enlightenment but I did construct it in such a way to weed out a troll. I did go off topic a bit here but I’m enjoying this a little too much.
Something happens:
Real Life Lore: *catastrophic*
mostly true though. kinda sums up the century so far
@@ONI_002 Stop going around from comment to comment supporting RLL, one comment is enough
@@Madsurfer-dz1hx Dont tell Asuna how to live their life
Smh sad but true.
You should watch OCC. It’s even more exaggerated lol
The WEF limiting food production in the countries under it's control will further in-pact the situation. To everyone, stock up food supplies now.
roof top gardens
Make sure the food supplies are non-perishable and long lasting
nice to see that you seem to be more aware of the situation, than I see it by my own eyes
You call this good content? Dude literally said “war in Ukraine.” Go to any city in southern Russia, they are being constantly shelled, then you’ll won’t call this good content anymore because it’s pure bias.
@@MM-pv5tp they deserve more and they will get it.revenge is coming soon
@@olexander13 So if Russia shells civilians, it’s a war crime. But if Ukraine shells civilians, they’re doing to right thing? War is war, there are no double standards.
@@MM-pv5tp Yeah, that's how it works
Outstanding educational video, tying together a critical variety of geopolitical issues that are likely to lead to massive famine, waves of human migration, insurrection and unrest, unstable economic markets, WAR. I have shared this video with many friends and family... only 33 minutes for an excellent summary of critical geopolitics.
Lno
fiddlesticks....thre ar farms everywhr....all many need is water...if we can pipe oil thousands of miles, then modern aquaducts need only folks with the will to build them...Rome used its armies in peacetime to build infrastructure.
Sure, if you like B.S. fed by the Lems
@@jackparsons2623: So now we know you are not a fan of facts.
@@billderinbaja3883 how do you determine who is giving you “facts” and who is lying? Subscriber count? Or corporate backing? Because even facts can be misleading when half the story is omitted.
You cover topics not many others talk about in extent. I always enjoy listening to you talk about topics that are happening
BRO CONGRATS ON 6M SUBS!!!!!
Wow, this is one of the best videos I watched on TH-cam for a while. Excellent job, an eye opening experience. We are in deep s**t on so many levels…
You call this good content? Dude literally said “war in Ukraine.” Go to any city in southern Russia, they are being constantly shelled, then you’ll won’t call this good content anymore because it’s pure bias.
Hi Real Life Lore,
Could you please do a Video on Soil Degradation Worldwide aka desertification aka soil turning into sand and why we need to fix that ASAP to prevent more (and more serious) events like these from happening?
There is a whole movement going on about it called Save Soil.
The reason it is important to revert the soil situation is because all food (and fresh water indirectly) comes from it. If we don't act now we could be seeing famines and droughts (and consequently conflicts and migrations) on a level we have not seen before, affecting billions worldwide.
Luckily there is a way to resolve this issue, that's why the Save Soil movement happened but it still needs more traction in America...
If you have given it a catchy name, especially an alliteration that only works in English, then its scope will never be wide enough to make a change. It needs to be a political and economic plan, not a social activism.
Sounds bad, but social movements rarely generate enough power to change things.
Also, China is spearheading the effort (multiple failures so far), but California has even fewer options.
Once the Ogalala Aquifer dries out, and water levels drop beneath sustainable levels, the entire Western portion of the US will become unlivable. It will serve as a military base, a few Native reservations, and nothing more.
Activism is too late now-- the citizens either riot, or in 20 years feel the full effects
@@LancesArmorStriking really? California also?
> Once the Ogalala Aquifer dries out, and water levels drop beneath sustainable levels, the entire Western portion of the US will become unlivable. It will serve as a military base, a few Native reservations, and nothing more.
@@teddygamel727
Yes. Aridification has knock-on effects.
The aquifer, once California returns to its natural state of being a desert
(the last 200 years of rainy climate were, int eh timescale of 1000s pf years, a fluke),
would be its only hope.
But since it would be dried up too, there would be no quick and easy ways to source water
LOL:) Simple, STOP covering up some of our best farmland in the USA with surburban SPRAWL and stupid solar energy plants. Later! OL J R :)
Good video suggestion, liked :)
Additional to what you say is that there is as much carbon in the worlds soils as there is in DOUBLE BOTH the atmosphere & every living creature on the planet combined! If people are going to be honest about it, it's not actually even clear which is the major cause of climate change, is it digging up coal? OR is is that for every half tonne of food harvested, 10 tonnes of carbon rich soil is lost to erosion?
I've not looked into that site & movement to know how legit it is, but the idea of farming "soil" not crops is certainly a big one with long term successful farmers & it really can reverse climate change too if we can get carbon into the soils, not to mention mitigating against the impacts of climate change, with carbon holding 70 times it's weight in water, therefore reducing the impacts of floods & then also droughts
Thank you for keeping us informed! Much respect goes out to you!
Dude, bravo analysis
The word 'catastrophic' meant a lot more before you used it in every fifth sentence. But despite the overuse of dramatic wording, this was an eye-opening and informative video. Anybody who doesn't watch this is making a catastrophic mistake. 😜
Those who worry too much should calm down, and those who worry not should worry much.
My little quote is open source. ;)
@ThelastTiger you're obvly not starving due to this so don't say he's over exaggerating because there are thousands to millions of people worldwide who are actively starving due to their food accessibility being compromised. He's not being overdramatic, it's a real thing. It only sounds overdramatic to the privileged.
@@misguidedkpopper8674 it feels unbelievable even though I know it's real. I'm from a country that depends on Indian and Chinese grain imports.
maybe it's because the media isn't covering this topic that much.
I think it is worth pointing out that when the war ends a lot of the regions that have been heavily affected will be restored fairly quickly. I mean look at the Iron Harvest in Belgium and Eastern France. They dig up shells and all other kinds of volatile items from WW1 to this day while ploughing their fields. It hasn't stopped them growing crops for the past 100 years and I doubt it will stop a load of driven Ukrainians to stop either.
Yea but this war probably won’t be stopped in the next year.
@@Harry._.Thompson For sure nobody knows when it will end I was just stating that a more devastating conflict has occured and within a "short" time farmers were able to replant and grow again despite the risks of unexploded ordnance etc
@@scl9671 Russia looks set on partitioning Ukraine. they have won in the Donbas
Last 100 years? ww1 ended in 1918 but don't forget ww2 didn't spare these batllegrounds either. And ye in some regions farmers still find alot of bombs ploughing their fields. Around Ypres the farmers tend to have boxes somewhere near the farm to keep found bombs and shells, for the army to pick up. XD
WW1 weapons were nothing compared to modern ones.
12:33 this issue has existed since these rail lines were built during the times of the Russian Empire and then after Soviet Union and was the reason German, Hungarian and Romanian rail logistics suffered and were heavily slowed during the invasion in 1941 and were forced to heavily rely on French and German trucks, captured Soviet trains and a hundreds of thousands of horses.
Plus no fuel 😔
From all the WW2 material I've read the past sixty years, I've never seen any mention that the German planners considered the railroad problem. It really came to bite them as they got deeper into Russia.
@@LuvBorderCollies from what I have read it seems the germans assumed they would be capturing a large anount of soviet trains…and they did capture some but I think about 90 percent less then they originally thought, which is why the railway became such a bottleneck for the germans
seeing all this makes me think 'we' should consider the risk of a WW3 to stop Putin cs. Letting it all happen seems to be just as bad, only slower.
@@theredhunter4997 Okay, that sounds vaguely familiar. Fuzzy memory says they had to move stuff from one rail gauge to another. Thinking they could capture 90% of Russian railroad engines/cars was more like wishful thinking.
Thanks for great video 🌺🌻🌸🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭
Sad you don't upload this episode at the same time on Nebula. I prefer to watch it on this platform to support you.
The quality of your videos is legendary! Great geopolitics explanation, I love it!
"I cant post these videos here because you will never see them so ill post them on a subscription site that you will never see them on"
actually a good video that is unbiased love it
Very interesting video... 👏👏👏
It's unfortunately true that the more 'advanced' we get the less vulnerable we think we are, but the vulnerable we actually become.
Add to that self-destructive hubris short-sighted selfishness and a tendency to destabilise systems through entirely self-inflicted issues such as war and it's a wonder we are seemingly doing as well as we are.*
*We're not! Who's heard of the Bronze Age Collapse?
We definitely don’t become more vulnerable the more advanced we become. We are simultaneously facing a multitude of crises that individually would have crippled societies in the past and while it won’t be easy, we can overcome them. While a sense of invincibility is definitely not good for our long term survival, we have come a long way from even just a few decades ago in terms of our ability to deal with crises caused by wars or drought.
@@schwi5425 I think it's ok to admit that we are exceptionally well at handling crises that we are well prepared for, and can easily predict. However, the problem lies with the ones that we cannot anticipate. Growing complex systems get harder and harder to predict as they continue to grow. And hell, we're at that point. Covid wasn't even a black swan and it brought the world to its knees. Even the Russian invasion was predicted by the US a month or so in advanced, but hubris as OP mentioned contributed to the outcomes we see now. Only at the very end will we learn any humility, and by then it'll probably be too late.
@@schwi5425 Sadly, stuff like this really is only going to severely impact the poorer nations. Europe, USA, East Asia, and Australia will be relatively unaffected.
Global famine was a well known risk … nobody believed we are less vulnerable … most were aware that we make ourselves increasingly vulnerable … feeding large and through food imports ever growing populations … is a pre-programmed catastrophe … fed into by the ignorance of those country’s leaders who had no back up plan to feed its own population … the land limits the number of people it can feed … with imports populations exploded … own productions and research how secure feeding its own population were neglected … even though everybody knew that an interruption of the supply lines could have happened at any time they are utterly unprepared … uncontrolled population explosion and no means to feed it … and the possible causes are countless … but yet no really relevant …
*SILENCE, KNAVE! THE KINGDOM OF UGARIT SHALL RULE OVER THESE LANDS FOR A THOUSAND GENERATIONS!*
I was seriously wondering why everything in the markets are so expensive now. Thank you for the informative video. Information like this should be available for all, and best off, for free.
I think it's a worldwide problem now, everyone it's complaining. It definitely has something to do with the Russia-Ukraine war.
one of the reasons we see rising prices is currency duplication i.e. inflation, practically robbing the money itself of its value by practically flooding the money supply
@@pauliusiv6169 nope, they keep printing money
Also
Covid measures, sanctions, central banks restricted by the state, China's zero covid policy, disrupted supply chains are driving up inflation.
For European ECB is in a crisis whether it raises the interest rate, thus endangering the liquidity of some companies and some EU states in the insolvency brings or just little intervene = States, companies continue to get cheaper loans to repair the damage, but the normal becomes poorer.
In both cases, many workers lose their jobs little by little.
@@Janoip Thank You, Mister Supreme Leader 😎
As an american, i think turkey’s neutrality to the discussion is best, considering they benefit both sides atleast. They don’t want to be dragged into any war, just like the days of World War 2
I love that you used the Civilization 6 icons for crops
I think it is important to add subtitles in other languages like hindi, arabic etc. to get this knowledge out of the western/english speaking bubble.
Also I would help to translate your videos to german for free to make your content available for elderly people there.
Old people don’t matter, and if you don’t speak English you also don’t matter.
Ah yes. Suptitles.
Those people do not buy in to propaganda. They question the logic of narratives like this that can be debunked with statistics.
@@THEREALspypasta dude he’s not English speaking give him a break
What are the countries with low rate of English fluency/literacy? I know most of east Asia is like that, right?
RealLifeLore, I just wanted to appreciate your videos. They are very well detailed. Thanks for putting so much effort and time so we can informed. One of my favourite channels. Keep up the good work! 😃
Ministry of truth is glad to provide you with convenient answers for all of your questions 😉
@@bomjahed Ah the good old Russian bot. I missed you so much!
@@gunterthekaiser6190 Have we met before? Can't remember, educating western sheeple is quite a job😁😁😁
@@bomjahed Of course we have! Well not you exactly but I did talk to one of your fellow employee. I was asking him questions about the pay, the morals and the pleasure of his job. I am actually really curious about that lifestyle.
Very interesting, thanks
Inflation, the War on Ukraine,
and the very Concepts of both Work and Unions
was all covered by ONE Channel: Some More News.
If that doesnt make him reliable af to keep you
Updated about Famines and Global-Issues, then what does?
very interessting! the voice i find exhausting to listen to because its so excited.
People forgot what started off the ARAB SPRINGS, it was a shortage of food, more specifically wheat/grain due to the fact that Ukraine and Russia,( the main exporters of grain for most of Northern Africa and the Middle East) experienced a ounce in a century drought that ruined there yield for the year. Which lead to all those countries empty handed and hungry with no alternatives which lead them to revolt. If people think things are bad now. Things will only get worse for the next year or 2 before things start getting better.
So just 2 more years and it'll be over?
Japan applied variable gauges for connecting bullet train lines in different parts of the country with different rail gauges. Supplying variable gauge rail cars might be the quickest way to get grain from Ukraine to Western Europe.
The ideal solution to merge different rail gauges is why blending them into the wider gauge which usually does help and is done in most countries around world, a small miscalculation can cripple trains from even fitting onto the tracks
It reminds me of the time when French SNCF and other French rail instructors barely communicated and ordered a total of 2,000 trains that were Too wide to Fit onto the tracks
Problem is Russia is destroying Ukraine's rail infrastructures to stop Western supplied weapons to Eastern Ukraine.
isn't the point more that shipping is so, so much cheaper than rail freight?
@@seadkolasinac7220 not only that. There isn't enough trains and railway capacity. (E.g. Waggons are stuck at the Ukraine border to Poland because of that)
@@grysufeuermelder9602 german promised to make more wagons for this reasons. gonna take some time tho.
I love this guys videos. I’m so curious though, where does he find all this information. I would not even know where to begin lol
The Russian flagship displaces 9380 tons while the argentine Belgrano displaces 9575 making it the largest military ship last during a conflict (the Falklands war) since WWII. I was going to mention the USS card (a former escort carrier)sunk during the Vietnam war, which had a displacement of 12,000 tons when full, surpasses full tonnage for both ships named above. However, it was raised and back in operation 6 months later. Keep up the great work and really enjoy your videos!
This channel seems to become one of the pillars of understanding the world 🌎 on youtube
It mostly propaganda
You call this good content? Dude literally said “war in Ukraine.” Go to any city in southern Russia, they are being constantly shelled, then you’ll won’t call this good content anymore because it’s pure bias.
I feel like the tune of your voice in this video is really emotional even during the advertisement part.
It's always emotional hahahahaha he goes all out with the emotion. It's quite compelling!
I love how you used the grain and corn icons form Civilization xD
21:15 look at that little dolphin leaping out of the water in front of the ship!!! such a happy little dude
Turkey has already allegedly offered to use their own ships to move grain from Odessa. See Reuters article "Turkey in talks with Russia, Ukraine over grain-export corridor" and more recently "Turkish team to discuss Black Sea grain corridor in Russia this week -sources".
then why isnt it happening
@@derineaboned6775 Russia wants sanctions lifted on them. Ukraine won’t remove mines from their port unless they receive some sort of security guarantee.
@@username65585 Lussia wont get any sanctions lifted if they dont stop blocking the gate then they will get destroyed by the ukrainians and Turks or any nato
@@username65585 so let them/us take the risk, I would say. When Russia dares to attack the routes from Odessa while cargo ships from Turkey are underway, Russia would only proof that they are the aggressors in this conflict and would be caught with their pants down. The name of this game is called diplomacy
@@grysufeuermelder9602 Can’t do anything while there are mines in the water.
Peter Zeihan has been covering this scenario for years but this video helps to further inform on that hypothesis and explain why protectionism is making a return. The world is way too vulnerable and so even uninvolved parties like India stop their exports.
This video narrator gets a bit overly dramatic like every possible solution is just so overwhelming. The leaders of western Europe and North America need to put on their Big Boy pants and lay down the law to Turkey and Russia. Most modern US warships are made with aluminum and very vulnerable to shells or missiles. The only warships that can withstand such munitions are the Iowa class battleships and they were decommissioned, because you know... peace has broken out around the world. ☠☠
@@LuvBorderCollies
"Most modern US warships are made with aluminum"
Arleigh Burkes are made from mostly steel
@@LuvBorderCollies
Not gonna work. Russia, at this point, is n too deep to care much about American warships.
By the time they show up, the Ukrainian silos will have been blown to dust, making the whole reason the "coalition of the willing" arrived there, completely moot
@@hertzwave8001 Ok. Back in the 80s one of the US ships got hit and caught fire. Somewhere in the MIddle East region. A cousin who was in the Navy told me the fire was hard to control/fight because of the burning aluminum. That was the first I heard about alum ships.
He retired after 22 years as an E-8. His first enlistment was shore and ship duty then the remainder was LA class subs. Some interesting games went on in the 80s and 90s especially in the Atlantic and Med.
@@LuvBorderCollies you’re severely disregarding the potential for a nuclear war.
I remember when you were a fun fact channel now you turned into where I get my unbiased news
Imagine being the dutch government seeing how bad a famine is coming and still forcing farmers out of business.
Well yeah, this is the cost of true progress; degeneration.
Maybe read about the issue before posting stupid comments?
@@sirspaceface What's that there then?
@@greatestytcommentator The new laws only apply for livestock farmers. The Netherlands has the largest amount of livestock per km2 of any country on earth. Which is very hazardous to the environment as you can imagine. The meat produced there is mostly exported to china etc.
Having said that. If you get rid of the livestock you essentially increase the food supply because cows eat a lot of crops.
They also are not forced out of business because a lot of them had plenty of time to adapt their business to the new laws, but they were to busy cashing in subsidies.
@@sirspaceface Cows are worth more food than they eat btw. I get your point still though.
The level of complexity you give in their video is very insightful. There isn’t really any single solution, and that’s what makes this disaster more concerning. We’ll see how the scenario goes, but I hope there will be a compromise to allow Ukrainian food exports to reach the nations that need them in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
There is actually the tech available right now to create ethanol from waste instead of grain, it's second generation technology & in the process of fazing in. Speeding up the transition to that is the obvious, huge action that can be taken right now to really impact this stuff.
Other thing is just going to be increasing efficiency & potentially prioritising grain ships at ports globally. Australia's going to have a massive amount of grain available this coming season, but distance is an issue. The more efficient all the world's cargo ships can be made, the more viable it becomes to have them travelling to places like Australia, instead of spending the time they could be spending travelling just sitting in port queues for weeks.
Other obvious way of increasing food is by decreasing waste, maybe lowering standards in some situations too, about 1/3rd of grain crops are rejected for human consumption, due to bugs in the grain. In a world that is moving towards eating insects as food, do we really need to dispose of or divert to livestock 1/3rd of grain because there's a handful of bugs in it?
People growing at least some of their own food & growing useful food is another action that on a large enough scale can impact overall food supply. If everyone with a yard or balcony grew 1 large pot of potatoes or sweet potatoes, that would have a huge impact on the calories available v calories needed globally
simple solution: ukraine stop playing around and surrender
maybe the US and nato could bomb ukraine into surrendering so we can get back to normal
@@Blox117 oh grow up! No-one's buying your troll farm propaganda lies! Ukraine surrendering would just make everythng worse!
@@Blox117 Ukraine would rather die than offer a total surrender, they will kill as many Russians as they can with prejudice.
You are leaving out some VERY important points, such as African nations who wanted to grow their own grains were not granted loans from the World Bank. United States, World Bank.. etc have discouraged African nations from growing their own food, thus causing Africa to be dependent on other nations. Russia stepped in, gave loans to African nations to buy seed, fertilizer etc when other nations wouldn't. There was an article on the BBC around 2010 or so talking about this issue.
Also the Chinese controlling food supplies to their advantage. And it's China who is the largest polluter of our planet. No amount of clever greenwash will refute this fact.
Corruption
@@fuzzyspackage I think it is exploitation of Africa. It is easier to exploit the poor and starving than people who are stable and have jobs. Rather than complaining about Ukraine, send Africa farming and irrigation equipment.
somehow im not surprised.
@@survivalistboards What African nations are you talking about? Nigeria produces many agricultural products.
I just saw on news that Russia launched an attacked on some of Ukraines grain factories in the Odessa region overnight, which brought me back to this video that I watched many months ago.
Now i understand why this channel is called RealLifeLore. This video was amazing (and terrifying ^^).