https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/iran-war-strait-hormuz-fertilizer-shortage-food-supply-hunger/
Southeast Asia is in a shitload of trouble. Fuel prices are making agriculture a losing investment. Add in fertilizer costs and unavailability and farmers in many poor countries are finding it impossible to continue.
Another notch in Trump's bid for his Nobel Peace Prize.
Oh, and if this isn't becoming a World War, then I don't know what it is. Countries all over the world are involved; whether they're fighting or just getting their economies shit canned.
The original article on this is in the Wall Street Journal, which I can't forward to you. Other articles in Morningstar and Bloomberg discussed how to make money off of this crisis. Go get 'em Dave. You can tell us about your commodities profits along with the tobacco investments. (s).
Quintessentially American to discuss profiting from a situation that may cause serious starvation, along with political upheaval in many places. Some of those are close allies of the US. Guessing Trump doesn't know/care about this. He's probably cluing in close friends about when to invest/divest.