1394. The Empire of Hunger

10/22/2026

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The “Color Revolution” in Syria is not the only focus of her interest. On Tuesday, she published an interesting analysis on beeley.substack.com of British history from the perspective of the use of hunger as a weapon against the populations of conquered countries. Her critical examination of her own country’s criminal policies deserves special recognition for her ability to closely observe the environment from which she comes. The article is titled: The Hunger Games – Global Britain has starved the world throughout history.

During the World War 1 annexation and occupation of Iran from 1917-1919, more than 8 million Iranians died under British occupation. The occupying militaries confiscated grain and livestock to feed their own forces. This severely disrupted local food distribution and led to huge price increases. The resulting famine was compounded by typhus, cholera, and the 1918 ‘influenza pandemic’ that tore through already an already decimated Iranian population.

In 1942-1943, the British alongside the Soviets again occupied Iran. The ‘allies’ took control of the Trans-Iranian railway and forcibly requisitioned half of Iran’s publicly and privately owned trucks. This was done to ensure the unhindered transport of oil and other supplies to the Soviet Union during World War 2. As a result, the allies took control of 75% of Iranian food distribution capacity. Another famine took hold and the Iranian people once more suffered the debilitating consequences of British foreign policy.

The use of starvation as a weapon of war is one of the oldest and most devastating military and political tactics. International law (including UN Security Council Resolution No. 2417) classifies the deliberate starvation of the civilian population as a war crime. In the Middle Ages and even earlier, fortresses were captured by starvation.

In ancient history, starvation was primarily used through protracted sieges of cities and the disruption of supply routes. The modern era has brought with it even more effective consequences of the use of starvation as a policy.

• The Romans: A classic example on a large scale was the siege and complete destruction of Carthage (149–146 B.C.) during the Third Punic War, as well as the siege of Jerusalem (70 A.D.), during which starvation led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of residents. The Romans also frequently employed the scorched-earth tactic;
• Ancient China: The concept of destroying the enemy’s food supplies was already described by Sun Tzu in The Art of War;
• Ukraine (USSR): In 1932–1933, Joseph Stalin’s regime artificially triggered the Great Famine (Holodomor). Through drastic food rationing, confiscations, and restrictions on the rural population’s freedom of movement, over 3.5 million Ukrainians were driven to their deaths in order to break resistance to collectivization and suppress independence movements;
• The Third Reich’s “Famine Plan” (1941–1944) (Adolf Hitler / Herbert Backe): A deliberate, preplanned strategy of Nazi Germany during Operation Barbarossa. It aimed to supply the Wehrmacht at the expense of starving approximately 30 million citizens of the USSR (including 1 million victims of the Siege of Leningrad), the Jewish population in the ghettos, and prisoners in concentration camps;
• The Great Leap Forward (1959–1961) China (Mao Zedong): This was a brutal political and economic campaign. Forced collectivization and the falsification of harvest reports led to the greatest famine in human history, claiming the lives of between 15 and as many as 45 million people;
• Nigeria (Biafra): During the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970), the Nigerian government imposed a complete land and sea blockade against the breakaway Republic of Biafra. The deliberate interruption of food and humanitarian aid supplies led to the starvation of over 2 million people, primarily children;
• Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979), led by Pol Pot, used drastic food rationing and forced labor in camps to exterminate class enemies, resulting in the starvation of approximately 500,000 people;
• North Korea: In the 1990s, the regime there used food distribution as a tool of political control. During the devastating famine (1994–1998), supplies were distributed primarily to the army and the elites, while regions considered politically disloyal were cut off;
• Gaza Strip (Israel): International organizations (including Human Rights Watch and UN experts) accuse Israel of deliberately blocking the delivery of humanitarian aid, food, and clean water and destroying agricultural infrastructure since the outbreak of the conflict in 2023, which has led to the official declaration of a famine in the enclave;
• Yemen: In the civil war that has been raging for years, the Saudi-led coalition has imposed port blockades (e.g., in Al-Hudayda) and destroyed food distribution systems, bringing millions of Yemenis to the brink of starvation.

This is how totalitarian regimes reveal themselves. The cruel fate of millions of people, sacrificed to satisfy the ambitions of a handful of degenerates.

We, who live in the world of “perfect” Western democracy, have never known hunger. However, for several weeks now, at one of Vienna’s larger supermarkets, the shelf where packages of potato flour used to sit now displays only the price. A lot of food items have simply disappeared from the store shelves. Of course, this isn’t yet a sign of famine, but it is a harbinger of what awaits us in the near future.

Author of the article: Marek Wojcik
Email: worldscam3@gmail.com

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