This food crisis is being called the perfect storm.

Even if you are 80 years old, it is the worst food shortage in your lifetime.

Their are natural causes for this storm.
Partly due to the increase in population and climate challenges but mostly due to the loss of fresh water. When we ship grain we are really shipping the water it took to grow that grain.

There are political reasons as well, such as the total loss of US fortune to privately contracted oil wars perpetrated by the Bush regieme for 20 years.
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It took Rome 250 years to fall into decline.
Our genius' needed only 50 years. The US empire will not be entirely marginalized. Like the UK we still have nuclear weapons to threaten the world...until one or two "accidently go off".



Is there a vast conspiracy to let the food shortage worsen in order to strategicly and politically control population? Is food still the greatest military weapon of all?

The official answer is no. The common sense answer is that food has always been and will always be the foundation of life and political power.