In his article, "Casualties Of War: Africa, A.I., India . . . And Europe?," John Wilder muses that the disruptions to oil and gas shipments will cause all sorts of unpleasantness because so much of our industry and economy is dependent on oil and gas (and byproducts from gas production, like helium): energy costs are going up, India is running low on fertilizer, and chip manufacturers in Taiwan have lost access to the helium they need for chip production. But the biggest loser may be Africa:
Why? For starters, Africa imports 85% of its food.
85%.
85%.
Why? Farming is apparently too hard, and whenever they have a few white people farming and feeding Africa, black people decide they’ll take the magic farm and get rich. Except they don’t. Lush, productive farms fall into disrepair, but, hey, the Africans who looted the place ate for a day.
Not only that, their governments are also basketcases. In almost every country, the government requires copious amounts of foreign aid to get anything done. ...
If foreign aid disappears due to ... I don't know ... a global depression, then Africa will quickly devolve into war and starvation. And a lot of them will head north to Europe. John thinks that the Europeans will stop admitting them. I don't know. The Mediterranean Sea could act like a barrier, but any barrier--such as a fence or wall or sea--is only as good as those manning it. And Europe doesn't have any navies worth talking about.
Check out the videos included in the article showing hordes of Africans racing across dark highways in Europe. Now imagine them carrying AKs.
Without fuel they were nothing. They'd built a house of straw.
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