Will A Global Depression Trigger Another World War?
By many measures, 2020 is looking to be the worst year that humankind has faced in many decades. We’re in the midst of a pandemic… The world economy is in free fall, with unemployment rising dramatically, trade and output plummeting, and no hopeful end in sight. A plague of locusts is back for a second time in Africa…Given all that, what could possibly make things worse? Here’s one possibility: war.