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.
Hm, if I ever get mugged, I’ll demand that the mugger hand me his gun before I hand him my money.
It’s amazing how many things I would have thought totally ridiculous back in the 20th century are now the “conventional wisdom.”
Don’t quite see an issue with making sure your own people are fed first.
LOL, like the “global south” has some entitlement to Ukraine’s wheat.
The instant the South Korean people vote for government that asks us to leave, we will leave. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Russians occupying Ukraine.
“staples that are crucial for global food supplies”
Gee, if Ukraine’s food is so crucial for the rest of the world, then perhaps the rest of the world should have considered that before reneging on Ukraine’s security guarantees.
If we want to deter a war with the Chinese, we must show them that we are willing to resist. And the best way to do that right now is by resisting Russia.
Of course, there is a certain group around here who believes that Russia and China are actually the good guys, and are going to save us from the evil machinations of Klaus Schwab and his buddies. So they actually root for Russia/China to win, and for us to lose.
They best they can do is criticize Ukraine for wanting to protect their trade. That is not blackmail, that is common sense.
I’m sure Russia will be happy to step up to fill the slack.
America will continue to have shortages, but at least China will have wheat.
“Ukraine” is the NATO/UN globalists/US and UK Deep States.
When you say "us", who are you talking about? Demented Joe? The Nazis from the Azov Regiment? Trudeau and his Cuban relatives? Who? Who are you? Who, who, who, who?
This Duran analysis definitely worth watching. Things have certainly made an abrupt wind change due to developing Putin/Erdogan partnership.
Turkey is expected to kill Finland and Sweden NATO membership. Deals done for Turkey to provide consumer goods for Russia, handle Russian gas distribution (India handles Russian oil distribution) and now Russia and Turkey will handle grain distribution from Ukraine. Expected Putin/Erdogan summit.
Turkey and Russia are also interacting their financial arrangements (credit cards, currencies) which are likely to strengthen Turkey’s lira and lessen Turkey’s inflation concerns.
“Bolton” (I assume they mean John Bolton) heads a group attempting to create Turkey “regime change.” Things look bad for the west if he isn’t able to make that happen soon...small time window left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn3H5skSfi0
Military collapse in north Donbass. Turkey & Russia move closer together as EU crumbles
I dont want their wheat. Most likely has rats carrying the black plague.
I want our money back.
“kill Finland and Sweden NATO membership.”
I hope so. Those two should enjoine Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Build up their own military since the Swedes have some pretty good military stuff and forget about all the drama that is NATO. We have already supplied the Poles with some good military hardware.
They can study that conflict in the Ukraine and plan accordingly.
Then quit the floppy paws that are the EU and go tell them to stuff it.
Zubu is a Russian disinformation front. Reading their website is more of a waste of time than watching CNN.
Watch Pakistan. And Sri Lanka.
Pakistan has over a hundred nuclear warheads and I have read (somewhere) that a couple are missing.
Anti-Ukraine Posts aren’t allowed on Free Republic - It is Pro-Zelensky 100% of the time.
As to Pakistan, the U.S. orchestrated a successful conspiracy to remove Khan. That place is a power keg right now.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Accuses US Diplomat of ‘Conspiracy ...https://towardfreedom.org › archives › asia-archives › p...
Apr 27, 2022 — In previous comments, Khan had also said that Washington sent a letter threatening him for rejecting its attempts to create U.S. military bases ...
powder
Do you have any evidence to back up your claim?
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