RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 1, 2023
Coming soon to a country near you? ‘Stockpile food and water’: South Africa faces ‘civil war’ conditions if power grid collapses As Adam Smith said, “there is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” More depressing stuff along these same lines in this twitter thread.
Related to the above. The Build-Nothing Country
Rice and sugar seem to have launched a competition in Cuba to see which increases the most in price on the informal market. While rice already exceeds 200 pesos ($8.30) a pound in several areas of the Island, sugar, once the national emblem, is on its heels and also sells for around that number and, in some provinces, even exceeds it.
South Korea’s current fertility per woman, for example, is a dismal 0.81, and those are extinction-level numbers. At that rate of reproduction, for every 1 million Koreans of childbearing age today, there will only be 66,000 great-grandchildren. South Korea is on track to disappear in less than a century.
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At least 36 people died in the collision of a freight train and a passenger train carrying hundreds of people and in the ensuing fire near the Greek city of Larissa late Tuesday. More than 80 people were injured, according to Greek authorities. The accident prompted the resignation of Greece’s transport minister.
