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The Rich is looking for energy: 60% support US. The Poor is looking for food: 60% stand neutrality. Both suffer under inflation.

 The Rich is looking for energy:  60% support US 

The Poor is looking for food: 60% stand neutrality


The Riches are looking for energy:  60% support US 

The Poors are looking for food: 60% stand neutrality


The Ukraine war creates two different kinds of demand, energy and food.  


The rich countries, mostly Western countries, are imposing sanctions on Russia.  In economic size, they represent about 60% of the world GDP.  Some rich countries will have to face a huge energy bill increase.


The poor countries in Asia, Africa, and even Latin America are concerned about the supply of food and the rising price.  In terms of population, they represent about 60% of the world population.   


The war will make the inequality worse.  We cannot survive without food but we can live with less energy consumption. 


It’s the economy, stupid!  If the US and the West want more support from the world, they have to help solve the problems.  More will stay neutral if there is more hunger.  

Since the Industrial Revolution, the West has expanded all over the world with their liberalism ideas. The expansion is unequal, unfair and unsustainable, but with innovative destruction.  

[Liberalism and its discontent]


Perhaps, this is Francis Fukuyama’s analysis of ‘Liberalism and its Discontent’.  The way of free expansion of liberalism has come to an end.  And the world needs a new order and a new structural system. The ones who control 60% world GDP will have to give way to the ones who have 60% world population. 


{Two idiots with no ideas of the world} 


Failing to see the different implications and development of 60% world GDP and population, the meeting between leaders of the US and Singapore continues the old style thinking of cold war.  Worst of all, they still believe in the western expansion and liberalism.  And they fail to see the discontent, one-sided story, and competition.

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