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Shortages of oil and gas, as well as helium for high tech industries and feedstocks for fertiliser, are having an increasingly heavy impact on millions of people a long way from the war zone.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

Shortages in material and equipment — including body bags — meant that exhuming and reburying all the remaining corpses around Khartoum exceeded his agency’s resources, al-Abidin said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

Shortages come at a particularly bad time, since the world’s supply of memory and graphics chips are already in short supply due to soaring demand from AI data centers.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

Shortages eased, at least for Venezuelans who had access to dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Shortages of food, fuel, and everything else led to strikes and riots in several German cities.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman