What will happen if Russia and the US Midwest food-production areas are knocked out?
If those agricultural regions are removed, the world will have little food left, and billions in the Orient, Europe, and Africa will face severe hunger. The opening days of the tribulation will bring terrible famine and inflation, with runaway prices making even scarce food unaffordable.
Les explains that when the great agricultural areas of Russia and the great food-production areas of the Middle West are knocked out, not much is left. The remaining billions of people in the Orient, Europe, and Africa will be getting awful hungry. The world will come under terrible famine and terrible inflation; as the Russians see, a shortage produces runaway prices, and nobody can afford even what little there is. This is the picture for the opening days of the tribulation, while Israel enjoys temple worship but must endure a tremendous invasion and loss of life.