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[–] Arrandee@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If this administration is humiliated, I would say we’re all winners.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's possible for us all to lose. Good chance of a famine six months from now because so much of the northern hemisphere couldn't get fertilizer during planting season and the US decided to make food for cows and cars instead of for people

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Cows that will now get screw worms and make beef even more scarce. Complete waste of resources.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 days ago (4 children)

What staple crops are getting harvested mid December in the northern hemisphere? And also have zero stockpile?

[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Uh, the bad harvest would be earlier than the famine.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 day ago

So the bad harvest would have to happen sometime in the next few months or have already happened? That makes it seem even more unlikely.

[–] Brummbaer@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Isn't that how winter wheat works.

edit: let me add an /s here, because I'm afraid people might not get that this is a joke.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How dare you interrupt a doomy anti-Trump rant with logic.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They don't get harvested then, but I think stockpiles will be empty then or sooner

[–] Yliaster@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

They're shameless

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

If this administration could be humiliated they'd have been booted out his first term and never even been in the running again. And if not first term, certainly early last year. The writing has been on the wall for ages and everyone just keeps ignoring it.

The only way this war was going to end was either a huge escalation, or something like this. Hard to say if Trump will benefit in some way from whatever deal he made, but I he and his family have benefitted from the war already.