India Blockaded Nepal For 5 Months — This Is What Happened

In 2015, Nepal — a country that imports every drop of petroleum through India — had its fuel supply choked to a trickle for five months. Hospitals and factories shut down. This is what a landlocked country looks like when its neighbor turns the tap. Cut from our episode “What If Nepal Had an Ocean?” — full episode on the Atlas Unbuilt YouTube channel.