[duckln]

The cash crop money goes to the farmers, not the military directly. It goes first to repairing all the bridges they blew up.

This generates global sympathy and commodity problems world wide. That's their playbook.

[ought-six]

“The cash crop money goes to the farmers, not the military directly. It goes first to repairing all the bridges they blew up.”

Which is why it’s so important for Ukraine to ship its grain. The West’s aid is supplying the military; Ukraine needs the money from the sale of its goods to supply Ukraine itself with the means to recover.