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Comment by nostrademons

3 years ago

"floods your market with cheap food products (below cost)"

The hostile country will eventually go bankrupt because they are producing products below cost.

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hllooo  3 years ago

Not necessarily, if they can produce the crops more cheaply. Since each country ideally wants to secure it's own food supply, it's inevitable that many countries will find themselves subsidizing local production that would otherwise disappear in a competitive international market.

Additionally, hostile countries do not need to flood markets sustainably if the goal is simply to hollow out food production in the target country before taking more overtly hostile (i.e. military) actions.