From the Truman period, the United States provoked the Cold War to contain the Soviet Union, squeezed the living space of the Soviet Union in all directions, and eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and won the Cold War. Among them, in 1982, the United States took advantage of the volcanic eruption in Mexico to make a timely decision to reduce agricultural arable land, which caused the Soviet Union to suffer major economic and political losses.
In late February and early March 1982, the Aier Chitron volcano in Mexico erupted. According to reports, the amount of eruptions of this volcano is the largest in the history of observation. El Keechon's volcanic ash has brought about major changes in nature. On the one hand, a large amount of volcanic ash is spewed into the air, the sunlight is blocked by volcanic ash, the sunlight will be reflected back, and those earth creatures that need sunlight will not be able to receive sufficient solar energy. On the other hand, because volcanic ash envelops the earth, it reflects back to the earth the energy that should have been emitted outward from the earth. This will inevitably cause meteorological changes on the earth.
In the winter of 1983, a Soviet Arctic expedition was trapped in the Arctic. Places that usually didn't freeze at all, this time the ice was frozen, and even the icebreakers who went to the rescue could not retreat. A large amount of volcanic ash is sprayed into the sky, so that there is a large amount of "core" in the air that can make water vapor become water droplets, and water vapor that does not normally become water droplets has also become water droplets. As a result, a lot of rainfall fell in coastal areas, such as the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Portugal and other areas in Europe, which were already rainy, and the rainfall increased even more, and the 27 days of rain in London were unprecedented. However, in some of the areas further back, because the rain had fallen in the front area, the monsoon could no longer carry water to the later areas, so the dry air was sent inland. The rainy coastal countries of Western Europe were accompanied by the first major drought in history in the three eastern European countries. Heavy rains, droughts, cold snaps, and hot air have led to widespread agricultural crop failures around the world.
The world's grain production has dropped sharply, and grain prices have soared. Since the Soviet Union was a high-latitude country, it was particularly badly affected, and the grain harvest was seriously failed, and it needed to import grain on a larger scale and further consume the already small amount of foreign exchange. At this time, the United States introduced a decision to reduce the cultivated area by one-third. Some see this U.S. decision as a perfect example of how meteorology can be exploited.
In 1982, the United States tried to ban the export of grain as a strategic material to the former Soviet Union, but failed. Before the Ayr Kijum fire caused a major change in the world climate, some countries outside the United States had the ability to export food. For example, the former Soviet Union's grain imports from Argentina left the United States with a large amount of grain and grain, and its price plummeted, causing dissatisfaction among farmers and some people.
It was precisely because the United States knew that agriculture around the world would be sluggish, that it decided to reduce the area under cultivation. As a result, there is no doubt that the price of grain has risen, and the market price of grain in Chicago has risen to about 1.6 times the previous level. The losses suffered by the United States in 1982 were earned back by the weather. As grain prices have increased, farmers' incomes have also increased, which has brought new good opportunities to agriculture-related industries, such as agricultural tools, fertilizers, pesticides, etc.
The world's agricultural harvest failed on a large scale, and the United States, the most capable of exporting grain, reduced its cultivated area by one-third, which made the former Soviet Union, which relied on grain imports, have to spend more foreign exchange in exchange for food. By 1984, Soviet grain imports had reached 46 million tons. Foreign exchange reserves quickly dried up, and as a result, gold could only be sold. The Soviet Union threw a large amount of gold through various channels as funds for the purchase of grain, which led to a decline in the international gold price, which was even worse for the Soviet Union. At the same time, the Soviet government continued to buy grain in order to earn foreign exchange, and frantically squeezed oil and mining capacity, exporting oil and minerals at low prices. But soviet efforts to increase oil production capacity and joint pressure from Western countries further reinforced expectations of falling prices in international energy markets, ultimately hurting the Soviet Union, which relied on oil for food. Not only that, since the eruption of the Ayr Kidjung Volcano, the only target for Soviet grain imports in the Soviet Union has been the United States, and its key weaknesses have been held in the hands of the other side. As a result, the Soviet Union had to turn a blind eye to the small riots created by the United States in the Caribbean and elsewhere. Concessions have also been made in the negotiations on limited-range nuclear weapons. Even in the case of Afghanistan, we have to admit our losses. This incident also affected the Soviet Union's subsequent forced to further reduce military expenditures, laying the groundwork for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The lessons of history prove that food security must be firmly grasped in one's own hands!