Cenové války / Jak zdánlivě bezvýznamné změny na světových trzích způsobují rozsáhlé krize, chaos a ozbrojené konflikty – Russell Rupert (2023)

THE CHAOS THEORY TEACHES US THAT TRIGGERING EVENTS CAN BE COMPLETELY INSIGNIFICANT. LIKE THE FLAP OF A BUTTERFLY'S WINGS. ************** Dirty children playing in the streets of Iraqi Mosul. Neglected elderly people in the ruins of their homes in eastern Ukraine. Venezuelan women undergoing sterilization due to an uncertain future... A young Kenyan competing for resources in a drying landscape... Images from travels around the world in the 21st century. ************** Price Wars is a journalistic travelogue across the globe, seeking to uncover what caused the wave of chaos that swept the world after 2010. It offers a fascinating and groundbreaking insight into how commodity traders in New York and London destabilized societies worldwide, leaving the most vulnerable at the mercy of hunger, chaos, and wars. It reveals that the unrest in Tunisia, Iraq, Venezuela, East Africa, Central America, and even Ukraine was triggered by dramatic and surprising fluctuations in the prices of basic commodities. Deregulation of commodity markets causes food prices to spike even in years of abundant harvests, leading to hunger and protests. Oil prices can suddenly rise even during normal supply periods, bringing wealth and emboldening dictators. It is this instability,...