• Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com
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    10 hours ago

    Damming rivers with runoffs into salt plains and salt desert, funneling water into agriculture for gdp, and making enemies in every direction was probably a really bad move, ngl

    Yeah, how dare they seek food security without imports in the face of international embargo.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      2 minutes ago

      GDP means Gross Domestic Product which means they were EXPORTING THE FOOD and actually a huge amount of spices such as Safron. You could argue that they are just really really really bad at math but the result is the same, incompetence leading to drought.