In 2022, each of us will deeply feel the soaring prices, not to mention coal and oil, just flour in supermarkets, the price will remain high, and it may rise in the future.
It can be seen from this that the confrontation between Europe, the United States and Russia has profoundly affected each and every one of us, as small as a spoonful of light and fluttering soybean oil, all of which lead to international contradictions.
Take the poor countries of the Middle East, for example, which are on the verge of bankruptcy or have long been bankrupt, because they mainly rely on russian and Ukrainian food imports, so after the war between Russia and Ukraine, more and more hungry children.
To put it more broadly, on our planet, people will starve to death every year, and the number of starvation deaths this year will be even greater, and the situation next year will not be optimistic.
The content to be brought by this issue of the article is the "new cold war" of energy in Europe, the United States and Russia, when the big countries sneez, the whole world follows the cold; and when the power is in a hot war, the big countries are waiting for each other, and the small countries are on the verge of bankruptcy.
First, the impact of great power wars on energy and food
From a historical point of view, the Middle East is a strategic point in Eurasia, and Tsarist Russia, the most powerful country on land at that time, wanted to open up the mouth of the Middle East.
The maritime hegemony, Britain, was worried that Tsarist Russia would open up the sea between India and the Middle East, so it fought openly and secretly with each other, and even the late Qing government was involved.
After World War I and World War II, the United States pointed its sword at the Middle East, and through the oil and energy it controlled, it began to suck the wool of the rich countries of the big countries and the roots of the poor countries of the small countries.
Money is often the primary motive in the vast majority of crimes; the same is true of the motives of the superpowers to start committing crimes.
The United States is the only one in the Middle East, and because of its blind superstition of force, it has spawned terrorism that has frightened the West.
Terrorism in the Middle East is divided into two types, one is traditional terrorism based on the restoration of the country, the establishment of statehood and the expulsion of Israel, and the other is the new type of terrorism headed by os-laden.
Traditional terrorism has clear political demands, clear demands on Israel's surrender, and clear demands on the West to withdraw from the Middle East; the new type of terrorism is because the demands are ignored, so it launches bloody retaliation.
In addition, there is a complex and possible "state terrorism", and Europe and the United States have always accused Gaddafi of cultivating various terrorists with the country's financial and material resources... But that's a digression.
We naturally know that terrorism is wrong, and we condemn such violent means, while the United States has created the soil for terrorism.
In 2001, bin Laden stormed the Twin Towers and directed the world-shaking 911, bringing afghanistan to two decades of war.
When the United States withdrew, it left a chicken feather; the Taliban was still the same Taliban that it was then, still controlling the national power in Afghanistan.
At the Doha Forum in Qatar in March this year, many people attended the meeting believed that the war launched by Europe and the United States in the Middle East was a disaster for locals.
The Gulf War, the Afghan War, the Iraq War... In the name of so-called "human rights," the United States actually protects the interests of the dollar, and it is the local people who suffer.
For example, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Syria... Every bullet on their bodies carried the foul smell of petrodollars.
Even the U.S. dollar in Afghanistan has been frozen by the Biden administration, which is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire and deliberately pushing Afghan civilians to starvation.
In the current situation in Afghanistan, where food is already in crisis and there is a risk of mass starvation, the United States' freeze on life-saving money in Afghanistan is tantamount to indirectly starving children in orphanages.
As the Russian-Ukrainian conflict broke out, Russia was forced to use force against Ukraine, and the West imposed severe sanctions, so that a large amount of energy and food stranded in ports could not be traded, at least not in dollars.
In the hegemonic system of the United States, there is originally military hegemony, energy hegemony, food hegemony, dollar hegemony...
Russia is the world's number one wheat exporter, and Afghanistan is in dire need of food imports, which should be a mutually beneficial transaction between the two sides, but there is a United States in the middle.
The United States, far away in North America, stretched its arm to the Eurasian continent, blocking Afghanistan's life-saving food, and even life-saving drugs and medical equipment, and engaged in a comprehensive sanction.
It turns out that the so-called human rights in the United States refer to those "submissive people" who bow down to the banner of the Stars and Stripes, either submit to the HEGEMONy of the United States or be eliminated by the hegemony of the United States, even if there are small countries such as the Taliban who persist in the struggle, they will be punished without leaving any dead ends.
The numerous crimes committed by the United States have not only devastated Afghanistan, but also done everything to The Syrians in the Middle East.
In terms of interests, the United States wants to suck blood and squeeze Syria dry, and Assad naturally does not agree, so he is put on the hat of "anti-human rights".
According to Sabag, Syria's UN representative, Washington has been pursuing aggressive and subversive policies toward Syria for the past 11 years.
Syria has suffered the same food crisis as Afghanistan, and although there is no shortage of oil and energy, everyone wakes up in the morning to eat, and for a country that has been at war for many years, having food is equivalent to having the right to live.
Middle Eastern countries have long relied on Russian and Ukrainian grain, but because the United States obstructed it, the Russian-Ukrainian brotherhood walled, directly leading to global food shortages.
The poor countries and small countries in the Middle East have the most profound experience of war, and when the United States held high the banner of "democracy, human rights and freedom", many people once fantasized that the United States could bring a happy life to the Middle East.
As for the end result, it is well known that Syria is falling apart, Libyan warlords are fighting, and once rich and prosperous cities have been blown to the ground, and now even buying food has become a problem. Not to mention the terrorism that has made post-war reconstruction difficult.
So much so that the whole of West and Central Asia feared the re-arrival of the "Arab Spring" and the united States once again drawing a pie that would allow ignorant youth to take up arms and destroy the gains of generations.
The impact of a great power war cannot be ended in ten or twenty years, but in the depths of a qualified civilization, a barbaric physique, and a civilized spirit.
Take the experience summed up by the ancestors of China, more than two thousand years ago, during the Han-Hungarian War, the Xiongnu obviously had a barbaric physique and a strict material system, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled were directly pushed into the wild, and the grain was left for the young people to eat.
However, the Xiongnu eventually lost to the Western Han Dynasty, and the Western Han Dynasty had a huge advantage in spiritual civilization, which could not be defeated, killed endlessly, and the spring breeze blew again.
The United States sent troops to the Middle East, destroying most of the spiritual civilization in the Middle East, and the serious consequences directly brought about by it are the weakening of the local people's sense of national identity and the rise of the sense of ethnic identity.
The spiritual civilization of many countries in the Middle East has been destroyed by American aircraft and artillery; it takes only a few years to build a city, and it can rebuild spiritual civilization, ranging from fifty or sixty years to hundreds of thousands of years or even never recover.
It is no exaggeration to say that after a big country launches a war, it is equivalent to a disaster for a small country! Those teenagers and young people no longer obey the orders of the president and instead obey the orders of tribal or clan leaders; clans pursue their own interests and ignore the interests of the state.
This is a clear regression of civilization, far more terrible than economic regression, and the negative impact is more serious.
Once these dead cycles are formed, coupled with the infighting nature of the American system, for many countries in the Middle East, dare to ask where the way is? Where is the future?
Since the United States entered the Middle East, such tragedies have become more and more serious every day, and what is even more headache is that there are still many young people in the Middle East who hope that the United States will send troops into the Middle East again.
From an international perspective, the wall is pushed down by everyone, the drum is broken, and the neighboring countries that were originally closely watching Syria and Libya are tantamount to taking advantage of the war ignited by the United States to cut off the interests of Syria and other countries.
As a result, the contradictions between many countries in the Middle East soon evolved into the contradictions of multilateralization, and the development process was beaten backwards...
Take, for example, the three U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq that have resulted in the deaths of more than 330,000 civilians and more than 26 million war refugees.
Three wars have not only affected these three countries, the whole world will pay for it, every barrel of oil has the blood of war, and every dollar is stained with dirty war smoke.
Take our Chinese, for example, we are an oil importer and a food importer, and the US dollar is the main currency of international transactions, so the impact can be imagined.
At this time, looking back, the cloak of "human rights and democracy" on the United States has deceived how many people have lost their homes and lost their homes, and how many people have died.
After Biden took office, he shouted the slogan of "ending the war" and wanted to let many countries in the Middle East sit at the negotiating table, but what he did was superficial.
Take the US policy toward Iran, while posing for negotiations, on the other hand, it demands that the countries of the Middle East reconcile with Israel and form a circle of encirclement against Iran.
The Arab countries have tried to unite again and again, and the United States also wants the Arab countries to unite, but the former wants to unite to build a homeland, and the latter wants to unite to expand contradictions against Iran.
Originally, Russia could have a place in the Middle East to prevent the United States from destroying everywhere, but with the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russia has been unable to take care of itself.
The point is that the United States directed the Ukraine crisis and compressed Russia's presence in the Middle East, which is a well-planned conspiracy.
For many countries in the Middle East, when the Russian-Ukrainian conflict broke out, they were isolated and even waited.
It is worth noting that as Russia's energy is focused on Ukraine, the United States has increased its investment in the Middle East, once again using the "trick of pulling one faction to suppress one faction" to take Saudi Arabia and Israel to encircle Iran together.
The United States has also "aided" the Middle East on a large scale, and indeed sent out batches of grain, but also issued batches of weapons.
But the so-called assistance of the United States should strictly speak be funding, funding the Arab Spring, funding armed groups in many countries in the Middle East, and serving the interests of the United States, the Interests of the Jewish Group, and the interests of the lobbying group outside the academy.
Even so-called humanitarian assistance has been questioned by setting time frames and scopes that require recipients to come up with complex and cumbersome reporting mechanisms.
For poor countries in small countries like Syria, instead of looking forward to food prices, it is better to look forward to the early end of the Russian-Ukrainian war, and to look forward to the opening of import and export channels between Europe, the United States and Russia.
Second, the confrontation between Europe, the United States and Russia, the impact on the big countries and rich countries
When Europe, the United States and Russia launched a confrontation, the world was pushed to the brink of a new Cold War.
Various financial, energy, and food sanctions against Russia have directly led to energy shortages in Europe, and even to import energy from the United States at higher prices.
Whether it's two or three years in the short term, or more than a decade in the long term, Europe needs Russian energy, and it's hard to replace.
What else is there to talk about in a country that lacks energy? If the sanctions go on for a long time, Europe's economy will inevitably suffer serious damage.
Europe even needs Russian natural gas to boil hot water when bathing, not to mention making bread and roasting pork knuckles; to a large extent, power generation and road construction and high-rise buildings also need oil and gas resources.
Europe has long relied on Russian energy, with at least a third of its natural gas coming from Russia and at least a quarter of its oil coming from Russia.
At least forty percent of Germany's natural gas and more than thirty percent of its oil are imported from Russia. Ninety percent of the gas from some of Europe's small, poor countries, imports from Russia.
The European Union is the world's largest economy, Russia is the largest supplier of petrochemical energy to the European Union, the strange thing is that Russia wants to sell, but the European Union threatens not to buy.
When Russia directly demanded to settle in rubles, the EU was soon anxious, buying would offend the United States, and if it did not buy it, it would suffer itself.
When the United States increased sanctions against Russia, European natural gas rose fourfold, and international oil prices soared, affecting the whole world.
If the war in Ukraine continues to burn for a long time, why not just the EU countries? Everyone in Asia has to pay for it, and the EU is the hardest hit by the world's affected countries.
Those "new energy, bioenergy, green energy" have just developed, and it is difficult to replace the original energy pattern in the short term, which means that the EU will be hurt for a long time.
Alternative energy sources shouted by environmental groups in the European Union are out of reach in the short term because the gap is simply too big...
The wounds of the economic crisis have not yet healed, the global epidemic is menacing, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is adding fuel to the fire, and it is difficult to overwhelm the EU.
Take the data of the fourth quarter of last year, the EU shouted about economic recovery, but the economy grew by only 0.5% month-on-month, which is a drop in the bucket, for the simple reason that it was affected by the Conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the epidemic.
What shocks Europeans is that this year's EU inflation, at least 3.5 percent or more... Even fifth-graders can figure out whether the standard of living is growing or regressing.
What is even more troublesome for Europe is that the United States-made Middle Eastern refugees have poured into Europe, and now the United States has created a large number of Ukrainian refugees, which are also pouring into Europe, and refugees will lead to a series of social problems.
Because of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which directly led to Germany's economic growth rate this year, not even three percent, I don't know how Aunt Mo will feel after leaving office.
The immediate troubles have not yet been solved, and the withdrawal of foreign capital in Europe has caused internal injuries to the European economy and directly damaged the future prospects.
In short, the EU has fewer places to make money and more places to spend money, and military spending alone will far exceed the previous ones, not to mention the energy that has increased in price several times.
When war broke out in Ukraine, Europe suffered, the situation could not be resolved in the short term, and Europe had to suffer for a long time.
For the world, the previous pattern of energy and food supply has been broken or even castrated by the United States; the new supply pattern has not been established for a long time, so the reality of high global prices is difficult to change.
The rich countries of the European Union are bitter, not to mention the poor countries in the Middle East and Africa, as well as those island countries that have long been unable to make ends meet, life is very bitter today, and tomorrow is likely to be more bitter.
On the other hand, Russia will not back down in the short term, because Putin knows deeply that Russia is already on the edge of the cliff, and retreating is a disaster.
The United States once woven the lie of "beauty", the Soviet Union collapsed after being deceived, and Russia will definitely not be deceived again, and will no longer believe in the American-style democracy.
The situation facing Russia is a "strategic overdraft" that is why it uses force, where is the reason why the knife holder does not squeak on the neck?
Europe and the United States have always drawn a big pie for the Ukrainian people, and now three million Ukrainian refugees have entered Europe, and even created the "second largest city in Poland" and even the momentum of becoming the largest "city".
Refugees paralyzed traffic in Eastern Europe and the face of the European Union, and Poland, already suffering from soaring prices, brought in large numbers of refugees (expected to be four million) and made the economy worse.
For example, a young teacher in Poland, who got up in the morning to go to work, the price of oil tripled, and the price of goods in the supermarket doubled... When he touched his wallet, he could only hang his head in frustration and go to the class to teach the students.
Today's Europeans are once again aware that since the war provoked by the United States, it is often Europeans who spend money to deal with the aftermath.
Postscript:
When the big countries sneez, the whole world will follow the cold; when the big countries roll up their sleeves and fight themselves, the small countries that have been beaten are directly bankrupt, and those small countries with interests are also bitter.
May peace and normal life be in the world, may prices return to normal as soon as possible...