Sanctions, boycotts, lockdowns and export controls are supposedly designed to hurt an enemy and protect the local population. However, after being caught in the middle of what appears to be an attempt to escalate the world into an economic catastrophe over a virus, only Denmark, a small country with intelligent leaders, and a group of African nations that take anti-malarial drugs with chloroquine, have navigated well and come through with low mortality to become the first countries to avoid shutdown.  Why are the Elephants so stupid?

Now, the US and the EU, through NATO, seem to be pushing the world toward war and economic ruin in Ukraine over questions which should be settled diplomatically. They blame food shortages on Russia when the record shows they will grant Ukraine the right to ship grain. Russia has a record harvest which they would love to sell to the world. If Russia is so evil why are former top allies of the US, Brazil, India and Indonesia lining up with China to support Russia? These Elephant Nations trip over themselves giving multiple billions of dollars worth of weapons, only meant to to kill and destroy, to the third most corrupt nation on earth. This $100 billion + waste seems destined to be sold on the black market or blown up by the Russians…for what good purpose? I see that all sides are hurt in these actions and the small countries, like Cambodia, which depend upon the “Elephants” of the world to purchase their products and provide their inputs are hurt the worst.  

It is strange how adverse events all over the world seem to be coming into focus. Many nations have quit exporting needed commodities. Food shortages are becoming common, shipping containers are hard to get and becoming very expensive. China stopped exporting the two main fertilizers used by Cambodian farmers last July. Last year, prices were normal during planting season but in the last month, as farmers attempted to plant, reality has bitten! Most of our rural churches are made up of poor rice farmers and they are in a struggle to survive. FCOP went to spray our rice crop with a herbicide that last year cost us $12.50/hectare and it’s now $58.00/hectare. Fertilizer prices are also up nearly 500%.