Posted on 06/08/2022 2:39:38 PM PDT by blam
The so-called “deadlock” over resolving the global food crisis is just as artificially manufactured as its origins since Kiev has now officially declared that it won’t resume wheat exports by sea to the Global South unless it receives anti-ship missiles first.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Vasily Bodnar officially demanded weapons in exchange for resuming wheat exports by sea in what amounts to the blatant blackmailing of the Global South in the midst of the artificially manufactured food crisis. He said that “Effective security guarantees are required for maritime shipments to resume. These guarantees must be provided through the supply of appropriate weapons to Ukraine to protect its coasts from maritime threats and the involvement of the navies of third countries in protecting the relevant part of the Black Sea.” This comprehensively debunks the US-led Western Mainstream Media’s (MSM) fake news that Russia is the one that’s supposedly holding the Global South hostage by allegedly blockading Ukrainian ports.
The background context is that Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya already explained the artificially manufactured origins of the global food crisis late last month. In short, he blamed it on the economic consequences caused by the West’s response to COVID (particularly with respect to spiking inflation and influencing food demand); Ukraine’s mining of its own ports; and the anti-Russian sanctions. President Putin later reiterated these causes in a TV interview that he gave a little over a week later on the same day that he met with Macky Sall, the Chairman of the African Union. His guest extended credence to the Kremlin’s explanation by declaring that “Anti-Russia sanctions have made this situation worse and now we do not have access to grain from Russia, primarily to wheat.”
All the while and in spite of the artificially manufactured origins of the food crisis that lie entirely beyond Russia’s control, Moscow has been doing its utmost to encourage Kiev to at the very least resume its wheat exports to the Global South. To that end, it proposed four potential corridors: the Azov Sea; the Black Sea; overland through Belarus en route to Baltic ports; and across Western Europe. Suffice to say, Kiev has flat-out refused to employ any of these means, though it’s also worth noting that Nebenzya mentioned in his speech late last month that Russia has “reasonable suspicions” to believe that Kiev is exporting wheat to those Western European countries that already have copious reserves of this commodity in exchange for arms exactly as happened with the Central Powers near the end of WWI.
This suggests that the EU is stockpiling wheat that it doesn’t even need in order to keep it off the global market, perhaps in order to later “reward” compliant governments across the Global South with a few scraps in exchange for them offering it privileged access to their natural resources that the bloc is scrambling to replace from Russia after the US coerced it into unilaterally “decoupling” from that country. Be that as it may, Kiev could still in theory simply export its wheat via the newly Russian-controlled Azov Sea but refuses to do so unless it receives anti-ship missiles. The reason why it’s making that demand at this particular moment in time is because talks between Russia and Turkey on creating a so-called “grain corridor” in the Black Sea seem to be making progress.
The reported plan that hasn’t yet been officially confirmed is for Turkey to help Kiev demine the waters near Odessa and will then escort its vessels with grain to international waters, after which Russian warships will escort them to the Bosporus. In fact, many believe that it was precisely this plan that prompted Foreign Minister Lavrov to visit Turkey on Wednesday in order to more intimately discuss its most sensitive details. After their talks concluded, he said that Russia agreed to ensure the security of Ukrainian grain vessels but expressed pessimism about Kiev’s willingness to go through with this proposal. Nevertheless, it’s intriguing to point out that the Turkish Agriculture and Forestry Minister announced just the day prior that Kiev agreed to give his country a 25% discount on wheat.
This hints that Kiev might indeed be seriously countenancing this proposal, though its unexpected public demand for weapons in exchange for resuming the export of wheat by sea could mean that it believes that the deal is close enough for someone in the US-led West to give it what it wants in order to make that happen. It should be said, however, that there’s no objective connection between anti-ship missiles and resuming the export of wheat by sea since the proposed plan calls for NATO-member Turkey to escort Kiev’s ships to international waters, after which they’ll be escorted by Russian warships to the Bosporus. There’s no credible scenario wherein Russia would attack Turkey, especially not after cooperating with it to reach this deal, so Kiev doesn’t actually need anti-ship missiles for its security.
The takeaway is that the so-called “deadlock” over resolving the global food crisis is just as artificially manufactured as its origins since Kiev has now openly declared that it won’t resume wheat exports by sea to the Global South unless it receives anti-ship missiles first. Everything that the US-led Western MSM had claimed about Russia holding developing countries hostage is actually true for its proxies in Kiev, which African Union Chairman Sall had already realized, hence why he extended credence to the Kremlin’s claims that it isn’t responsible for this crisis. Now that Kiev is officially holding the Global South hostage, those countries have no reason to ever trust its Western patrons again after they approved their proxy weaponizing food exports to developing countries.
Russia could of course end this war, bring their troops home, and let Ukraine resume doing business as usual.
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Moscow authorities will name the previously unnamed square next to the US embassy “Donetsk People’s Republic Square”, also changing the US embassy’s address. Moscow city council members have proposed renaming a square next to the German embassy “Lugansk People’s Republic Square”.
https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1534544406434435072
I hope everyone understands that Ukraine has one of the most corrupt governments in the world, and that has been the case for a long time.
I hate Putin, Zelenskyyyy and Victoria Nuland with equal fervor.
Send our $40B worth of wheat moochers 🤪
Why on earth would Russia 🇷🇺 capitulate to the whims of the global elite? They must be made to heel. They WILL be made to heel.
How that excuses russias invasion i dont know
I would not call it blackmail. It’s trade. If trade is blackmail then it’s blackmail.
That’s a weird definition of “blackmail.”
Your Soviet friends are utter idiots if they think they can dictate terms to the rest of the world. Didn’t you jerks get the message when Finland and Sweden ignored your nuclear threats and applied to join NATO anyway? Didn’t you get the message when NATO deployed ground forces to the Finland-Soviet border?
You and your gangster buddies in Moscow are not going to make any kiss their butts. Not at all. You’re just pissing us off.
But yeah, keep up with the threats. Donald Trump wanted NATO to increase defense spending and little did he know that Pidor Putin would do it for him.
Spasiba.
Putin uses One Weird Trick to out the piece of dogsqueeze running Ukcorruptokraine.
No downside for Ukraine, they don’t need the money as the Neocons are now FULLY paying the salaries of their government and military.
Might as well try to extort weapons, and if no luck, then who cares what happens in other countries?
Ukraine's government has banned the export of wheat, oats and other staples that are crucial for global food supplies as authorities try to ensure they can feed people during Russia's intensifying war
March 09, 2022, 7:16 AM
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ukraine-bans-exports-wheat-oats-food-staples-83337319
Suckers!
Bartering?
Using food as payment for weapons?
OMG!!!
Perhaps selling the food for money would make it better? And then use the money as payment for the weapons?
Or, is the article about making it immoral and evil for Ukraine to hold the food as hostage in order to get the weapons it needs?
War is hell, and the whole world is experiencing the hell. Hmmm... perhaps if the nice guys in Russia called off the war things would get better?
“Moscow authorities will name the previously unnamed square next to the US embassy “Donetsk People’s Republic Square”, also changing the US embassy’s address. Moscow city council members have proposed renaming a square next to the German embassy “Lugansk People’s Republic Square”.”
Still LESS INSULTING than us flying the Gay Flag in countries that support normal families.
I guess you care about this war. We have zero national interest in Ukraine, and I don't give a damn what happens there. I certainly don't want any of my tax dollars going there. All that Joe Biden and neo-cons have done is enable on-going blackmail. Ukraine was asking for another $10b just after the $44b we sent. Now they are holding the world hostage over wheat. F them, let' Russia destroy them.
Stop all weapons to Ukraine until they agree to reimburse the US in grains.
The US could of course remove all of its troops from the DMZ and allow the Koreans to reunify.
Ukraine would be required to demine its ports, meaning Russian ships and landing craft could enter those ports and beaches without fear of mines. Is it really unreasonable to request alternative defenses to replace the mines?
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