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Please do share what capitalist country had a famine in the past century.
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Give it a bit!

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/26/g-s1-115240/iran-war-strait-h...

(I'm being snarky here, but COVID definitely exposed some supply chain vulnerabilities.)



Lots of African countries have market economies and also poverty and hunger.

Poverty and hunger are not famine

Niger springs to mind, massively capitalist with a lot of oil and mining

Massively capitalist in what way? They have a long history of price controls and nationalization and their current military junta is trying to nationalize the uranium industry. How could you even imagine a free market operating in a country that has a revolving door government that alternates between military dictatorships and transitional officials?



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