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I think the US is going to be more insulated than a lot of other places. China as well. The Chinese can still purchase oil directly from Russia and the more Ukrainians fuck up the ability for Russian oil and energy to make it to Europe the cheaper and better the deal is for China. Meanwhile, the USA produces more oil than it requires, even if we don't refine enough of it ourselves. This is a big insulating factor for us. A lot of the developing world/Global South are going to be fucked. As usual. Which is not to say the USA and China won't suffer, too.
There is also the fertilizer issue and nobody can escape that. Especially not America. We are fucked there. Food is going to start getting expensive in a country where millions already go hungry.
The US is only insulated until:
US oil companies don't export that oil instead because it fetches a higher price anywhere they can ship it and the US gets to use it as soft power projection over Europe/Asia/Africa.
It imports anything, with the cost becoming too high for most goods
The global economic depression it causes kills foreign investment in the US economy and demand for US exports.
The US dollar weakens from the crisis while the yuan continues to gain more global usage.
We're insulated from it for a few more weeks than most other countries. I'm not at all confident that will last though. May or June is when I think the domestic impacts will start becoming more noticeable than the cost of fuel alone. This seems like it might be the straw that pops the AI bubble's back, collapses the social safety net entirely, and introduces broad consumer good inflation/shortages on top of impacting fuel/lubricant/plastic cost and availability. Last year things were so economically bad that my department was rationing fuel and begging us to minimise driving. This year the cost of everything will rise in response to the crisis while the zombie economy contracts and isolates. That's so chaotic that I'm betting it will be historically disruptive, at least to the 1973 level if not 1929. If it somehow works out and nothing ever happens, I had a cheap year saving money and exploring my region. If it doesn't then the closest lived model I have is 2008 and that was so bad that it made me a Marxist.
edit: And I told them. I done told them. For the cost of one new fancy pickup truck, they could buy like 40 of my cargo bike at retail price and outfit our entire system with something that gets most of the job done. They said ohhhhhhhh but happybadger we need the big pickup truck. Think about the carrying capacity we can't use now.
that will increase chaos and lead to blowback on the U.S tho.
Good. We deserve it all the blowback coming our way.