Deadlier Than All of Russia's Bombs and Bullets

The implications carry far beyond the unprecedented worldwide rearming of militaries. The scramble has started to secure the most crucial supplies, and the importance is far greater than the day-to-day body count today. The implications carry far beyond the unprecedented worldwide rearming of militaries. The scramble has started to secure the most crucial supplies, and the importance is far greater than the day-to-day body count today. [Outsider Club logo] Deadlier Than All of Russia's Bombs and Bullets [Adam English Photo] By [Adam English]( Written May 17, 2022 Ukraine bears the scars of Russian occupation. But the worst weren't from war. By some estimates, 3.9 million people died in Ukraine, or about 13% of the population, across just two "peacetime" years. Ukraine faced a multiyear famine under Stalin known as the Holodomor — a portmanteau of the Ukrainian words for “starvation” and “to inflict death” — which peaked in 1932 and 1933. No sieges, no artillery or rockets fired. A relative handful of bullets were turned on civilians. We should remember what happened and fear what is to come. There is a very good chance it will happen again, and it won’t be limited to Ukraine. If I Had to Pick ONE Stock to Retire On, I’d Pick This..... Most folks dream of a single stock retirement with no more worry about running out of money (or the next market crash). [I've found that one stock you've been searching for.]( You can sit back and retire off this one stock's incredible income. That's how dividend investing can liberate you. [Click here for the full details on this one stock retirement plan.]( The only catch is you have to get in before their next dividend deadline to have the earliest shot at a single stock retirement. [Now's your chance!]( Profound implications for some of the most food-insecure regions of the globe loom, and by the time they manifest, it will be far too late. Packaged as a way to destroy privately owned farmland but ultimately used to punish any and all with any nationalist leanings, Stalin's land and agriculture reforms in Ukraine forced collectives upon farmers who were barely scraping by on small plots of land. The idea, if it was far better implemented over a much larger time span, may have worked. But in reality, the disruption, persecution, deportations, even executions — coupled with absurdly poor state-level planning — meant that the 1932 harvest of wheat, corn, and barley would miss targets by about 60%. And so what little was produced was confiscated as punishment, and a generation of what were essentially peasants starved. Homes were raided to try to find caches of any grains. Trains were packed and sent off to the Gulags. This was a man-made atrocity — buried by history and the even more widespread disruptions of World War II within a matter of years. Yet this lesson must be remembered. 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Russia, Belarus, and Canada are among the world’s top fertilizer producers. Russia alone accounts for 13% of worldwide fertilizer exports and faces crippling sanction threats. Belarus exports 10–12 million tons of potash alone, about a million tons less than Russia. It is facing sanctions as well, and the major exporter has already cited “force majeure” contract clauses to break contractual agreements. That leaves Canada as the last major exporter for a handful of critical minerals. Unfortunately, it too is facing issues. We're right in the middle of planting season for many staple crops in Canada and the U.S., and fertilizer supplies are stretched thin. The U.S. imports 86% of its potash from Canada, and while Western Canada is a net exporter, parts of Eastern Canada used to rely on Russian potash because it was cheaper. That is certainly not the case any more. [Costs have already soared for fertilizers we desperately need to maximize yields](. 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Chronic hunger rose by about 18% during the pandemic, or up to 811 million people. The United Nations estimates the war’s impact on the global food market could lead another 13.1 million people to go hungry as well. Armenia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Eritrea import virtually all their wheat from Ukraine or Russia. Turkey, Egypt, Bangladesh, and Iran all import about 60% of their wheat from the two embattled nations. Or at least they used to. These people cannot afford greater costs. Meanwhile, the rest of us will continue to be squeezed by out-of-control inflation. This sets up a situation that will make the atrocities of indiscriminate destruction in Ukraine pale in comparison. But it will be a slow disaster, spread across the globe. The only realistic solution is to maximize yields elsewhere. [Fertilizers command a premium already and prices will only increase from here](. 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