Posted on 05/23/2022 8:58:50 AM PDT by blam
In a Monday virtual address before the World Economic Forum in Davos, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky urged Western countries to impose “maximum economic sanctions” against Russia.
“The world is united because of threats, the war, Russian aggression. I don’t want you to lose this unity,” Zelensky stated in the keynote address which was met with enthusiastic applause in approval. He called for measures which he said have still yet to be imposed, including a ban on Western companies operating in Russia. His words came simultaneous to a UN official at the WEF stressing that Russia’s continued blockade on Ukraine ports amounts to a “declaration of war” by Putin on Ukraine and broader humanity:
Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s ports is a “declaration of war” that threatens to trigger mass migration and a global food crisis, a United Nations official said, adding to the dire warnings on the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Zelensky’s remarks sought to push Europe and global powers led by the US to implement a full embargo on Russian oil, to bar Russian banks global systems with zero exemptions, for companies to abandon Russia IT sector, and for a ban on all trade with Russia.
Calling for a total withdrawal of foreign companies from Russia, Zelensky said via a translator: “This is what sanctions should be: They should be maximum, so that Russia and every other potential aggressor that wants to wage a brutal war against its neighbor would clearly know the immediate consequences of their actions.”
And coming just days after the Group of Seven countries pledged $19.8 billion to keep Ukraine’s wartime economy afloat, the Ukrainian president added, “The amount of work is enormous: we have more than half a trillion of dollars in losses, tens of thousands of facilities were destroyed. We need to rebuild entire cities and industries.” He further described that earlier full support would have resulted in “tens of thousands of lives saved.” He said should have “received 100% of our needs at once, back in February” – including weapons and funding needed to keep up state services.
Reacting to the speech, Bloomberg said WEF efforts are crucial to transforming “Putin’s Russia into a world pariah“. It wrote this “can be particularly effective if seriously absorbed by the audience of the World Economic Forum, by the Olympus of managers, politicians, economists gathered in the Swiss Alps from all over the world.”
On the same day David Beasley, executive director of the United Nations’ World Food Programme said during a panel discussion that Russia’s failure to reopen Ukraine’s ports is in effect a “declaration of war” on the globe’s food security. He said this also threatens to unleash an unprecedented migrant crisis:
“You don’t need to worry just about what’s happening to the east of you, you also need to worry about what’s happening to the south of you,” he said.
“Every 1% increase in hunger leads to a 2% increase in migration.”
But there’s some practical realities such as basic safety and security of said ports before international shipping is willing to flock back to Ukraine and now heavily militarized Black Sea harbors.
Bad news for grain exports: ‘Western diplomats say reopening Ukrainian ports is not a practical option for at least six months. A Ukrainian one is blunter: “There is no point in escorting merchant ships if nobody is prepared to shoot back at Russia”…’ https://t.co/BmEWCjBUGU
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) May 19, 2022
Clearly, Vladimir Putin is about to exclusively be blamed by the West for the coming global food crisis, growing inflation and migration surge for years to come.
As The Economist forecast in a dire gloom and doom frontpage story last week entitled, The coming food catastrophe, “The high cost of staple foods has already raised the number of people who cannot be sure of getting enough to eat by 440m, to 1.6bn. Nearly 250m are on the brink of famine. If, as is likely, the war drags on and supplies from Russia and Ukraine are limited, hundreds of millions more people could fall into poverty. Political unrest will spread, children will be stunted, and people will starve.”
We Are In An Undeclared Global Economic War, And Worldwide Famine Is Coming
"‘Western diplomats say reopening Ukrainian ports is not a practical option for at least six months."
(Then millions are going to starve and millions more will be on the march...Me, I'd be moving right now)
Well, blocking ports is considered an act of war. Of course so is invading a country.
They have the Moldovan port of Gurguleshti nearby and remove more wheat than ever through it.
The story is a nothingburger. The main problem with ports is not a Russian blocade but the Ukrainian mines.
The Economist is a leftist rag.
Food shortages are not because of Russia and Ukraine. They are because of the WEF/NWO and they are purposeful to advance the Great Reset.
Face it, no matter what wars we have been in the years before, we never ran out of baby formula and we never purposefully kept farmers in the midwest from having trains deliver fertilizer in advance of planting crops.
All of this is on purpose and the Russia Ukraine war is the excuse for what has been orchestrated. Population must be reduced and they are working very hard to make it happen.
Doesn’t Putin realize that sanctions go one way, and one way only; from NATO to Russia. That’s it. Any push back by Putin is a blatant act of war.
Like US with Iraq? Afghanistan?
The US has sent or is sending the Ukranians ship killing missles so they should should be able to sink a bunch of Russian ships.
In both your cited cases we sought and got UN approval, even had allies join in. There was international consensus that in the case of Afghanistan we were returning fire from the 911 attacks, and in Iraq, we were finishing the job not completed from the 90 invasion of Kuwait, and failure of Saddam to abide by the cease fire terms.
So no, not at all like the US.
What was Pooty’s invasion of the Ukraine called? A day at the range?
Blockading ports is an Act of War. We should have let Ukraine keep all those nukes.
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the drums are getting louder...
The US can feed the world. Democraps have been blocking that.
Russia now has control of 250 million tons of wheat allowing Putin to use the wheat as a bargaining chip for whatever he wants thanks to Biden and Obozo. When Obozo allowed the Biden Administration to close the Canadian Pipeline down and signed off on the Russian Pipeline to supply The European Market he sold out the World.
No we didn't, feel free to prove otherwise. Besides, why on earth would UN approval matter?
A globalist, crony-capitalist, elitist leftist rag.
I remember their magazine covers cheering for the invasion of Iraq and Libya.
The US has sent or is sending the Ukranians ship killing missles so they should should be able to sink a bunch of Russian ships.
United Nations Security Council resolution 1378, adopted unanimously on 14 November 2001, after reaffirming all resolutions on the situation in Afghanistan, including resolutions 1267 (1999), 1333 (2000) and 1363 (2001).
Take your ignorant BS accusations of US/Russia equivalency and shove em. I'm not wasting time with you today.
Let’s hope they put the entire Black Sea fleet on the bottom.
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The United Nations Security Council, invoking Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, offered Iraq one final chance to implement Resolution 660 (1990) which demanded that Iraq withdraw its forces unconditionally from Kuwait to the positions in which they were located on 1 August 1990, the day before the invasion of Kuwait began.
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