The war in Ukraine, amplified by the West's anemic and at best useless sanctions, have likely led to a famine which will effect millions of people.
Yeah, us sitting here in our offices in the richest country in the world, arguably the people who helped cause this, won't be effected. Maybe our food prices go up a tiny bit.
The people in developing countries, like usual, will now become victims of starvation, which will lead to revolutions and civil war, and ultimately more suffering.
I'm sorry to be so cynical about this, but it has been like watching a slow motion, unending train wreck see the last year of foreign policy nightmares coming out of The United States. It turns out that, no, we are not in the end of history, and yes, there are still a lot of bad people in the world.
Our foreign policy laziness/ineptitude has led to a situation where the leader of a nuclear armed, hostile superpower (Russia) has two choices: win his war against the west, or die. In the process we have invalidated the idea of The Federal Reserve meaning anything (oh you have USD deposits? You made us mad? We'll just cancel them!), and are about to see countries selling oil denominated in something other than USD.
To be clear: Putin is a monster who has now killed thousands, and destroyed a country. I wish he was rotting in a prison cell. But the reality is: he isn't, and these absolutely idiotic sanctions we are imposing on Russia will lead to none of our stated foreign policy goals, and only suffering for the poor.
Somebody's twitter thread about how acksually this isn't a bad thing offers me no comfort in this regard.