“I had the titular role in Out of Africa.” – Upright Citizens Brigade
Will that work? I have my droughts.
World economic systems are straining due to the current IAI (Israel, America, Iran) war. One of the lessons learned from previous economic crises is that issues show up at the weak points first. Back during the Arab Spring in 2011, people in the Arab world were revolting.
I mean rebelling.
One big driver was the inflation that had hit the area. What caused the inflation?
Well, money printing in the United States due to the 2008 Great Recession had finally spread internationally to the Middle East. Certainly, the Middle East is already as stable as a methed-up stripper ex-girlfriend whose rent-check just bounced, so adding vodka to the mix didn’t help.
Countries burned.
They overthrew their governments, and when they didn’t like the new ones, went and got the old ones back. This was caused at least in part because the Arabs were hungry and food was too damn expensive. Can’t farm the desert, so might as well blow the place up.
Which they did.
Once again, the Middle East is center of worldwide economic stress and it’s moving quickly across the world.
Bigfoot is confused with sasquatch, yeti never complains.
In Australia, they’re running out of something they call petrol. If only they knew about gasoline!
In India, they’re running out of fertilizer so it will be difficult to line the streets with poo.
In Taiwan, soon enough they’ll be running low on helium, which is a byproduct of natural gas processing.
Helium?
Yeah, they need lots of helium to make computer chips so that you can make Internet cat pictures that are photorealistic plus I think they huff it a lot which is why they can’t pronounce “R”. Regardless, here’s an A.I. cat for you:
But one place that will certainly be having difficulty is Africa. Africa is the basketcase of the world.
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. I’d make more fun of them, but then I think about our budget deficit and go, “Oh, yeah, at least in America we know some payday lenders.”
So, since they have to bring in food and can’t care for themselves in any way at all, at least they’re doing the responsible thing by keeping their wombs from being clown cars and not having hundreds of millions of children that they have no way to feed, right?
No. They’re turning their wombs into clown cars and having hundreds of millions of children that they have no way to feed.
And, of course, they’ll blame us. In this case, they might be right. We’ve taken a group of civilizations whose only actual contributions to the world are raw materials and AIDS and given them medicine and food. Since the entire continent has been in super-fertile rabbit mode since forever (r/K biology –link below), what did they do with effectively unlimited food and a drastically reduced child mortality?
r/K Selection Theory, or Why Thanksgiving is Tense* (for some people)
Breed.
They’ve gone from a reasonable 10% of the population of the world when I was a kid to more than double that today, as the world population has doubled. They double-doubled. And they were starving and dying when I was a kid.
Regardless, it’s like someone turned on the “African-making machine” and left it on overnight. For decades. And, their population is projected to be some silly number like 40% of the world’s population by 2100.
(as-found)
But that will never happen. Why? Because a big crisis, like the one we’ll be seeing soon due to the IAI war, will simply remove the excess wealth that sends medicine and food down to Africa. We all know what happens next: the senseless deaths, the violence, the revolutions, the cannibalism.
Oh, wait, that’s Africa when things are going well. Things will soon enough get much darker on the Dark Continent as the wealth spigot dries up. I can’t imagine that Europe will continue to absorb them there, either, but then again I never thought the West would be committing collective cultural suicide like it is today.
Sadly, not AI or a horror movie. (as-found)
The IAI war isn’t some far-off desert dust-up that only affects oil futures and late-night cable news. It’s a live-action stress test on every fragile supply chain we’ve built since the last big reset. Oil tankers with $100,000,000 cargos reroute around the Red Sea like it’s a game of dodgeball with $3,000 drones. Grain ships that used to feed half the planet now sit idle or pay pirate insurance that would make your mortgage look cheap.
Fertilizer plants in Europe and Asia that run on Middle Eastern natural gas?
Yeah, those are suddenly “strategic assets” instead of just boring factories. The ripple hits the weak points first, just like it always does. Australia’s petrol shortages aren’t because they suddenly forgot how to drill and can’t figure out how to spell “gasoline” it’s because the tankers that used to show up like clockwork are now playing naval chicken in the Strait of Hormuz.
India’s fertilizer crunch? More natural gas.
And Taiwan’s helium? That’s not some niche nerd problem. Helium keeps the fabs running so your phone can update and your cat video can render in 8K. No helium, no chips.
No chips, no economy that looks even vaguely modern.
It’s all connected, and the connections are fraying faster than a cheap suit at my uncle’s funeral. Africa just happens to be the thinnest thread on the whole sweater. They don’t grow enough food to feed themselves on a good day. They don’t manufacture much beyond raw materials that richer countries turn into actual products. Their governments run on foreign aid the way a junkie runs on his next fix.
And while the rest of the world was busy printing money and inventing new genders, Africa was busy doing what r-selected populations do best when you hand them calories and medicine: exploding in numbers.
The math is brutal and it doesn’t care about feelings. When the aid stops, when the container ships prioritize Europe and Asia over charity runs to the Sahel, when the NGOs pack up because the insurance premiums are higher than their budgets, the party ends. Not with a polite “thank you for the fish,” but with the kind of scenes that make Arab Spring look like a polite disagreement at a PTA meeting.
Who has two thumbs and a poor grasp of visual humor? This guy. (as-found)
We helped create the conditions. Not out of malice, but out of the same soft-hearted, soft-headed Western instinct that says “we have extra, so let’s share.”
We shared vaccines.
We shared grain.
All this while infant mortality plummeted and fertility stayed at levels that would make a rabbit blush.
The result?
The bill is coming due, and the IAI war is just the guy in the suit who shows up to repossess the furniture. Europe already has its hands full with the last wave. America is staring at its own debt mountain and wondering why the grocery bill looks like a car payment. Australia and India and Taiwan are discovering that “just-in-time” supply chains work great until the “just-in-time” part becomes “just-in-case the war lasts another six months.”
The weak points crack.
Then the stronger ones start groaning.
Then the whole system starts looking for someone to blame.
The Dark Continent is about to get darker. Revolutions, famines, the whole greatest-hits album of human misery played on repeat.
(as-found)
And the rest of the world? We’ll be too busy trying to keep our own lights on to send another aid convoy. And I worry the most about rebellion here. Especially among the cows.
I can’t abide a mootiny.
“In India, they’re running out of fertilizer so it will be difficult to line the streets with poo.”
Why do they need fertilizer plants when they already poo so much? I’m sure there is a violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics in there somewhere, but it seems that India has already invented the perpetual motion version of poo-making.
They can’t poo in the loo or the field, only streets.
The Denver water shortage with 45+ data centers is a situation going on here in West Israel. They’ll have to plant some more Magic Soil in the move the world here so Hymie feels safe plan. No weed grow legal or otherwise will be without water.
Iran says they will bomb Palantir, Oracle and others!
Make the world safe for ganja!
“Get Well Soon”. I laughed out loud. Reminded me of YouTube megastar Jimmy Donaldson / MrBeast’s “I Drilled 100 Wells In Africa” video which after the cameras stopped rolling, didn’t turn out so well…
https://dww.show/6-things-mrbeast-didnt-tell-you-in-his-100-wells-video/
https://magatte.substack.com/p/how-mrbeast-is-keeping-africa-poor
But let us turn our attention from 1.5 billion Africans to the important topic of helium. Every single atom of it on Earth comes from the decay of underground radioactive elements over billions of years and we are squandering this irreplaceable resource like it will be around forever. It will not. It makes up about 0.3% of natural gas but is expensive to recover and estimates are that it will become economically infeasible meet worldwide demand for helium in just a few decades. The story of worldwide helium use is too complex to go into here but is a very interesting topic.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/us-just-sold-helium-stockpile-s-medical-world-worried-rcna134785
Oh, we can always just buy more helium, right?
We know the solution. The solution is guaranteed to work. We simply lack the collective will to implement it. So we are collectively doomed. Until and unless…
We lack the collective will to even lay the basics to solution let alone implement it so.doom it is…
No, just until.
As implied, the real problem with, perhaps, the entire planet, is that the first world has insisted on getting in Darwin’s way. From directions on bleach bottles (“Don’t drink…”), to feeding those who will not (not “can not”) feed themselves, Darwin served a necessary purpose for thousands of generations that it no longer is allowed to serve. Wolves keep down the caribou population by killing and eating the old, slow and sickly. It’s how the world is designed to work. Like gravity, it matters not at all if you dislike it.
Bingo. 100%.
All work on the mootron bomb has ceased. Inspectors would be tolerated, but all they ever do is laugh, really.
What a cowtastrophe!
Indeed. Udderly concerning and something I’ll need to ruminate on.
Indeed. I’ll keep my ears open to see if I can find out more on the bovine.
Mootiny. In rural Iredell County, NC a dairy farm’s sign says it’s a “MOO-TEL”.
Seriously, Africa will implode quickly. Mass starvation and disease to ensue. I have little faith in the population projection above, due to the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns, forcing the allocation of scarce resources, namely food.
You might see 100,000,000 a year.
After the assassination of Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip, it was said that “If Serbia could be towed out to sea and sunk the air of Europe would smell infinitely better.” The same could be said of a few middle eastern countries tbh.
Clinton bombed the Serbs for the muslims and you are right Iran, Iraq, and Syria all do suck.
You left one country out.
Yup.
Going to be epic…and soon
And it will be televised.
Outstanding article, right down to the last Moo.
So, mooving?
It will be a bad time for many in Africa, and being white in South Africa will be more dangerous than now.
They need to get out now.
Israel is a cursed country run by demon-worshippers. That is the only explanation for the current state of things. And the vast majority of our national-level politicians are owned by them through bribery and blackmail. God save us.
Divided loyalty cannot be abided by.
Everyone should have a nation… If they can keep it.
Europe is screwed. Even if hundreds of millions of Africans starve, enough will survive to head north and overwhelm Europe.
Europe has a history of going from pacifist Weimar to aggressive National Socialist in just a couple of years.
All they have to do is sink the boats. Taking back Constantinople would greatly help.
Yes. A good start.
Yup.
I stand stunned by your wit, humor and deadly accurate summation. Men of the West could have dominated for centuries with lagging civilizations elevated over time as each became more educated, independent, and consequently developed pride in one’s own accomplishment. A very successful method of subjugating a people is to give them….. fill in the blank – food, clothing, housing, money. It saps one’s vitality, makes one dependent and then you have them (or do they have you?).
They have us, now. It will be a tragedy bigger than any in the 20th century.
Fans of this must read “How to Go Galt and Win Your Freedom” by George Larrick. This work is the best nonfiction book about liberty. It’s a real page-turner. Google it now!
Have a link? Is that you, George? 🙂
Great assessment. The next generation of kids will have to eat their vegetables because kids in Africa are starving again. History repeats.
But how many Africans will there be?
Hate to use the WEF term, but the fewer the better if they’re useless eaters. God (The Universe) loves creativity. Do the math. Thery think 2+2=5. That’s irrational.
It’s going to happen, planned or not due to basic math.
If you’re not prepped, get with it, now.
yes.
2 relevant cartoons (political style).
“For just $1 a day, you can feed the child of the guy who murdered the white farmer he used to buy food from.”
“What do you get when you feed 1 million starving Africans? 10 million starving Africans.”
Bingo on both.
One caveat: population numbers in Africa are generated how? By who? Africans? NGOs?
And… Isn’t the amount of sweet cashy NGO salaries and loot, pardon me, money for food etc. determined by population?
I have heard one group estimate that they are severely undercounted.