Russia, China, or the United States?

 

Russia, China, or the United States?

     I sat down attempting to understand which country holds the real power in this world, beneath and beholding to God.

     Approximately 47% of United States land is uninhabited. Empty land according to Nik Freeman using 2010 Census Bureau data is due to physical difficulty, like deserts and mountains, and government restrictions, such as national parks and wilderness areas.

     Russia, 65 - 75% of its land is uninhabited or sparsely populated due to harsh climate or permafrost. Approximately 80% of the Russian population lives on the European side, which is about 20% of the country's territory. This displays a populated west and a very unpopulated east.

    60% of Russia is covered with permafrost. This permafrost is frozen year-round, leaving it unfarmable, unproductive.

     The percentage of land uninhabited in China is over half. The vast majority of people reside in the eastern areas of China. Mountains and deserts make up large areas of western China, making it unproductive and unlivable.

     In 2022, figures from the World Bank put the United States arable or farmable land at 16.6%. Russia's arable land stands at 7.4%. Meaning only a small fraction of Russian land is suitable for cultivating crops. Ukraine has around 57% arable land. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand why Russia would want Ukraine, once known as the breadbasket of the Soviet Union.

     China's arable land stands at about 11.49% of total territory. The key stat here is China supports 20% of the world's population on less than 10% of the world's arable land. The amount of arable land in China has actually been declining in recent years due to rapid urbanization, industrial growth, and environmental degradation. The decline in arable land was one reason for the implementation of the one-child per family law, but that led to serious other problems. One of the problems was, to support / pay for the aging Chinese population, China needed a minimum of 2.4 children per family. Predictions are that China may not be able to support their aging population with food. That fact is predicted to bring about degradation in the economy, bringing about major poverty and starvation.

     The minimum arable land needed to sustain a country, feed its people, is 14.5%. Yes, Russia doesn't have the arable land, like China, but add to that its declining population since the fall of the Soviet Union and its aging population. Immigrants aren't fighting to get into either China or Russia like they are in the United States.

     Contrary to leftist in the United States declaring our hate of immigrants, the majority of citizens in the U.S. are affable and empathetic to "legal" immigration. The birth rate of U.S. citizens is 1.62. We fervently need the "legal" immigrants to sustain and pay for our aging population, and this classification of immigrants is waiting in a long line to enter. If our government is not working diligently on improvements to speed up the application process, we need to encourage them by putting pressure on our congressmen.

     Russia lacks updated methods, requires more efficient governmental support, and overall better crop management practices. China has high overall agri-productivity coupled with substantial investments in irrigation result in high food availability.

     With Russia being a distant third, we look at China versus the U.S. China with its abundance of manpower concentrates on production while the U.S. and its government policies concentrate on farm income. Yes, China has an overwhelming profusion of manpower, but the U.S. is 20 times more productive per man in the agricultural area as China.

     My conclusion after examining the three leading world powers and their food supply situation is this: Russia has an agricultural hangover from the former inefficient Communist System that was employed. Their reliance was on Ukraine and other countries in the Union to provide what their internal agricultural system could not. Now, they don't have that backup, and NATO doesn't seem to have the desire to let Russia dominate Ukraine and its vast agricultural resources.

     China is at its apex as far as food production without major changes addressing industrial pollution on arable lands and some game-changing discovery in agricultural technology. The United States with their focus on monetary return in farming is outpaced by China with its vast supply of humanity. Nevertheless, the U.S. with its formidable abundance of confidence and its history of accomplishing the impossible mixed with the freedom and courage to implement immediate changes from the lowest man on the chain all the way to the top is walloping China with 20 times more production per worker. Add to that its confidence that America, on a need-to basis, can increase production, manpower, and acreage for agricultural use enormously speaks volumes as to who holds the real power in this world. An intelligent God such as ours would give that advantage to the most humane, the most compassionate, the most tolerant country ever to dominate the world stage - the United States of America, one nation under God.

     What have you truly prayed for with faith, needed, and been denied by God. From my part, nothing that I truly needed and prayed for has been denied. Let us pray that the leaders of all the world's countries and their subjects come to find this same truth from the one true God of Israel. He promised us trials and tribulations, but always delivers what we need to prevail through those great ordeals. 

Read: Matthew 7:7-12