AgentR11 wrote:Then the flip side comes worldwide, after this brief crisis, as it has come to a lot of the Mideast already; America used to provide the excess in the grain market that prevented prices from rising out of control; now we hold a simple red button... it doesn't launch nukes, it does worse. It turns grain into alcohol to be burned in vehicles. Mideast countries are not reducing their populations, Asia is not reducing its population, the Americas are not reducing their populations; but we most certain are reducing the amount of grain available to feed all those people. Should someone come along and attempt to fill the gap, we remove the thumb from the red button, and they are instantly bankrupted.
If you thought American greed had no limits when we took 25%... you ain't seen nothing yet.
You are overestimating ability of US to influence other nations in coming food crisis albeit I must admit that you have certain leverage on the Middle East.
Europe is out of hook (self sufficient), Russia, Canada, South America and Australia as well, Africa irrelevant, Chinese will partially starve but pull through and Indians with Middle East are probably screwed.
Middle East is more screwed than Indians are.