All of this points towards dramatically increased risk of global war. That is a bigger concern. People get desperate enough and they lose their civility en mass

All of this points towards dramatically increased risk of global war. That is a bigger concern. People get desperate enough and they lose their civility en masse. And we are animals at heart. If our animal needs aren't met, our base survival behavior can come out. I really believe that is a big part of what's going on in Ukraine. The economic squeeze on Russia, although intended as an alternative to "real" violence, put them in a more desperate situation and since Putin decided to not give in, the financial problems and fallout from that helped him justify (in his mind) the desperate act of war. But overall all of this is related to global management and logistical failure. Not saying that it would have been easy to avoid since we had the pandemic, but it is an overall organizational failure. Geopolitics is a significant part of the management that has failed. Part of that is just how hard it is to get billions of people who speak different languages and are thousands of miles apart to share similar worldviews. Or even just a relatively small group of powerful leaders. We are essentially large troupes of monkeys in hierarchies. At the top are just monkeys. Economists are just a type of modern day priest. They are not scientists. Not even monkey scientists. The Bankers can't save anyone. They are a big part of the problem.