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Global food abundance rests on fertilizer trade: land-poor and populous southern regions depend on northern exports of petroleum-derived ammonia fertilizer.
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North South
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Moscow also sees Tehran as very important as well for its north -south trade access. Without Tehran, Beijing is completely reliant on Russia. Beijing..."
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Jiang argues that the first Civil War arose from the political consequences of divergent regional economies, not simply from the North deciding to abolish slavery on moral grounds.
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"have so many people, means, like, if there's a crisis, the population will see a massive shrink. Okay? You're like, okay, how? And, the..."
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"And, that's it, guys. You understand? If this were to stop for the reason, people in the south would be in a lot of..."
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"And the difference is that the North was very industrial and the South was agricultural. And because the economies were different, the way they..."
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"It was an inefficient use of manpower. And at the start of the war, they only had about nine million people, okay? But what's..."
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"...Moscow also sees Tehran as very important as well for its north -south trade access. Without Tehran, Beijing is completely reliant on Russia. Beijing..."
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"...that involves Iran, Russia, and China. If you look at Russia's north -south corridor, right?"
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"If you look at China's, if you look at Russia's north -south corridor, it runs through Iran. If Russia wants to access the Middle..."
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"...Belt and Road initiative and you get to cut off Russia's North South uh International North South uh transport Corridor and then Global Trade..."
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"...happening. Because Iran is really the people. It is where Russia's north south trade quarter runs through is where Europe's IMAC quarter runs through...."
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"...you need to trade effectively. So Russia has something called the North -South Corridor. As you can see, it runs through Iran, okay? Iran..."
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"...Iran cannot stop. If it stops, then Russia could achieve its north -south, uh, trade corridor, and China could implement its Maoização, right? of..."
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"achieve its north -south, uh, trade corridor and China could implement its belt of agreement. Right? And so, uh, this war, Iran cannot stop...."
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