Food security and the coming storm
&gt; Over the last three months, Russia&#x27;s invasion of Ukraine has shocked agricultural markets<p>Did Washington&#x27;s illegal invasions of Iraq, Libya, or Syria shock global energy and food markets, leading to global crises?<p>No, because a large part of the global economy did not attempt to cut off USA from the global economy following those blatant violations of sovereignty. This real lede is buried deep in the article.<p>The fact is that the current economic crisis could be partially mitigated by the West undoing its economic punitive measures intended to destabilize Russia and force regime change. While Russia is arguably engaging in a military crisis of choice, Washington (and Brussels) are engaging the world in an economic crisis of choice; primarily because a unaccountable cabal of aging Cold War neocons are fixated on overthrowing Vladimir Putin &quot;at any cost&quot;.<p>Anyways, most of the analysis is correct and useful, but it always bugs me when the causality is obfuscated in the name of pushing a political agenda.