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The biggest specter out there right now is the interruption of not only food exports out of Ukraine and Russia, but the interruption of fertilizers, and the energy required to make them in some places. North Africa and the middle east import(ed) most of their grain from Ukraine and Russia, and with them in a constant redlight-greelight fuck fuck game over black sea exports, no real tonnage is moving. The last time Russia had a really bad harvest and spike grain prices, it caused the bread riots US glowies co-opted into the Arab Spring uprisings.

Much scarier is that Belarus (the largest potash exporter) is totally sanctioned, China and India are no longer allowing phosphorus fertilizer to be exported from their borders, India is banning the export of certain grades of cereals, and Europe's giant Ammonia plants need huge amounts of power and natgas to operate (which they decided they want to sanction without having a replacement ready). Africa will feel this squeeze first: most of their farmland is marginal and they'll be the first priced out of fertilizer. Brazil is already warning the PRC that the entire harvests they bought the contracts for are going to be slim due to weather and low fertilizer availability. And this is all with functioning maritime security. We just watched a nation drone an oil tanker in the gulf of Oman for free. Tacitly, the US is done securing trade that isn't our or an ally's.

Welcome to the era of global population decline and constant brush fire wars, where the USA will sit back and sell top of the line hardware to the lucky few who can afford it, to use in battles over energy access and fertile soils.

>>50862754
>insane
Whatever you do, don't look up the great success that military trauma surgeons have had using "living blood bags" (soldier volunteers from the chow hall) to donate fresh blood to men during surgery, and do not look up the effect of hetero-chronic blood transfusions on old mice. Its the next big thing in the world of organ donation too.

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>>50292645
Not that I wasn't doing work that ultimately proved the entire line of research should have been dropped a couple years before I started, but my PhD (and most of the ones of the people I worked around) were funded by private industry, not the gubment. Big Energy wants its new materials developed and its way cheaper to shop it out to grad students than to pay their actual R&D guys to do moonshot research.

>>50293017
Define meme, dude. No one with a brain is going to claim that women's studies / lqbtbqq studies / afro-jap-ainu basket weaving is a waste of time and money. But seriously, go the website for your state's largest university, and check the mechanical or chemical engineering department's website for faculty's laboratory pages. No one there is doing work that someone smart didn't think was worth funding. The final application of some of this work may be decades out, but it will eventually pay off, and the fact that you apparently have no idea what PhD research entails tells me you're either underage or a bitter dropout.

>>50292796
States don't fund research just for shits and giggles.

For actual science, this is also a huge factor. The whole reason the NSF grants exist is that the US knows that by investing like 160k in the best and brightest students it will likely reap millions in future benefit as those students go on to long research careers.