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epolanskitoday at 9:16 AM4 repliesview on HN

It would be just easier to not wage war by the way.

Can't think of many countries besides Canada and US that would not starve in NATO if such a necessity arose, and that's because they produce lots of cereals.

All the other countries in NATO are major food importers.


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tonyedgecombetoday at 9:53 AM

>All the other countries in NATO are major food importers.

All apart from France, Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Turkey, Italy and Ireland.

Interestingly the US is borderline now depending on how you measure food imports and exports.

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RandomLensmantoday at 9:50 AM

Being a major importers of olive oil is probably not such a big deal. The EU is pretty self-sufficient for food, for example - can change a bit the food and agg mix if needed (and some countries have emergency stores as well).

IMTDbtoday at 10:17 AM

> It would be just easier to not wage war by the way

Yeah, those pesky Ukrainians waging war for the pleasure of it.

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ben_wtoday at 10:33 AM

> It would be just easier to not wage war by the way.

Wars do not start by mutual agreement of all belligerents. If anything, usually the opposite.