Movers and Shakers

 Movers and Shakers

So, in Sri Lanka, the powers-that-be have taken the reins to help global ills and ended the use of fertilizer. They now have a drop in food production, famine is looming and the country is collapsing.

The European energy lemmings have cut domestic energy production. They now have an energy shortage. The Germans have turned back to coal-fired plants to preserve their declining natural gas reserves.

The Netherlands leadership has decided it best to cut back on farm production. They likely will no longer be a net food exporter; nor, of course, will Ukraine

The Americans have cut oil production and now have an energy shortage. We are negotiating with kings, totalitarians, and religious maniacs to make up the shortfall. The Americans did release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve but sold it to the Chinese.

Is it about time we stopped trying to explain this behavior and, instead, start to question the capacity of these people to rule?