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.
And Russia and China are moving in through back channels.
Russia is already sending aid to Sri Lanka. One hell of a non sinkable aircraft carrier. I expect China to move into that Island also.
India is already siding with Russia.
We are set to lose the whole of that region..about 2/3rds of the earths population.
You dont give a damn, but more people do.
Sucks to be you
Better than a Russian pawn
Yes, back to money laundering......
Screw Ukraine, I hope zelensky gets strung up at the local gas station along with the cia agents and congress critters who installed him.
Funk them all.
The Zubu tribes once ruled Mongolia. That figures. One can see it in the eyes of many Russians.
As for the illogical rants and conspiracy theories saturating the Net, maybe a disease affecting brains is behind the trend. Or maybe drugs.
In diplomatic circles, referring to blackmail as blackmail and to invasion as invasion is considered rude...
We have 750 military bases in 80 countries and yet if Khan did not allow us to put one in his country (and he was very popular apparently due to his cricket history...:-) he had to go.
And we wonder why so many countries are ripe for hooking up with the “multi-polar block.”
We just got into another “threat” situation with Cambodia. They are allowing China to build a base there and so we are going to put “sanctions” on Cambodia for their human rights violations. It is getting harder and harder to figure out who we can buy from or sell to these days...:-)
I don’t give a flying f either.
I hope zelensky, the cia goons, and the congress critters that installed him are hanged.
You don’t have a clue babe.
Enjoy your hopium. Obama approves!
I actually want an early Christmas babe.
Don’t drink the kool-aid fresh babe.
Please don’t tell me you wear a mask...I don’t wanna know.
Eat US soybeans!
And the Japanese are standing by and playing both sides of the issues successfully.
Japan is importing oil from Russia.
If I were Red China, I would get more into Mexico, build up a secrete military there, and infiltrate the US and start a subversive action in this country.
OH WAIT..Do we know who the hell is coming across our boarder?
“Us” does not include you, Sergei.
Silly, no!
No one on Free Republic has been able to answer those two questions.
Sucks to be globalist (you).
We have an interest everywhere that a hostile country tries to take over another country.
Domino theory? Yeah, you have been duped by neo-cons with their out dated cold war arguments. According to your domino theory, we have an interest just because of war. This is your argument: where's there's a war, there's national interest because they might eventually attack us. So let's get involved so they can attack us.
We do not have an interest everywhere that a hostile country tries to take over another country.
Your domino theory means we need to be the world's policeman. We need to fight endless wars, because there is nearly always some hostile country trying to take over another. And after those wars, we need to rebuild countries because the next war monger military-industrial establishment argument is we have a responsibility to fix what we broke. Somehow they manage do all that without winning wars.
This is Europe's problem and they are not doing a damn thing other than allow mass migration to their own detriment. If they don't care, why should I care? You haven't convinced me one bit to give a damn about Ukraine.
I won't even go into your "farsightedness" that has a way of killing and crippling tens of thousands of our servicemen. That is what happens when you put faith into our current set of politicians and our woke generals. Not a single one of them knows how to win a war, even a war when we are directly attacked.
In "nearsightedness" I give a damn about the invasion on our southern border. I give a damn about our economy. I give about our soldier's lives and families. If you love war so much, then why don't you personally go and fight it. Risk your life and limbs. Use your money while you are at it. But I doubt you love war so much. The people who make these 'domino theory' arguments are scared little pussies. They don't put themselves into harm's way, they needlessly put others into harm's way using other people's money - not their own.
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