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U.S. Warns Starving African Nations to Not Buy Grain Stolen by Russia
newsweek. ^ | 6/6/22 AT 11:48 PM EDT | JAKE THOMAS ON

Posted on 06/08/2022 8:01:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Combined, Ukraine and Russia produce nearly 30 percent of the world's wheat and barley, as well as a fifth of the world's corn and over half of its sunflower oil, according to the United Nations.

The United Nations' World Food Programme announced in an April report that the number of people experiencing acute hunger will rise by 33 million to 47 million people because of the conflict in Ukraine. The report expects countries in sub-Saharan Africa to be the most affected by the disruption.

Africa relies on Russia and Ukraine for more than 40 percent of its wheat imports. Tanzania, Rwanda and Senegal import 60 percent of their wheat from the two countries, with Somalia and Benin relying entirely upon them for whea

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TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: africa; grain; putin; russia; starve4biden; starve4ukraine; ukraine
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1 posted on 06/08/2022 8:01:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Telling Africans to stop buying and trading stolen goods? Maybe we should try that in Democrat run cities first, just to see how that works out.


2 posted on 06/08/2022 8:06:21 PM PDT by D Rider ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Brandon decrees that beggars must be choosers.


3 posted on 06/08/2022 8:06:41 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo
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To: BenLurkin

I see a big FU coming for this idea. When you’re starving the stolen wheat and not stolen wheat probably taste a hell of a lot alike. Just saying.


4 posted on 06/08/2022 8:07:45 PM PDT by Equine1952
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Stick to Putin -- starve and die!

Sounds a bit a racist to me.

5 posted on 06/08/2022 8:07:50 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like liberal compassion to me. It usually results in death.


6 posted on 06/08/2022 8:08:26 PM PDT by TigersEye (Shall not be infringed!)
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To: BenLurkin

First, if you go on Marine Traffic you’ll see a bunch of ships clustered around the entrance to the Sea of Azov and nearly nothing in the sea itself. Probably because the ships are illegally turning off their AIS to avoid giving away the fact that they’re violating sanctions.

Most of the ships departing the sea southbound are Russian. Others are of various flags of convenience.

What now remains to be seen is if these ships are intercepted, boarded, inspected, and seized for carrying contraband. That can happen in Turkey at the strait or in the Med where NATO forces can get at these thieves.


7 posted on 06/08/2022 8:08:31 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: BenLurkin

So dumb... I can see the photo of starving children in Africa with a “I did that” sticker on it.


8 posted on 06/08/2022 8:08:33 PM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: BenLurkin

What’s Biden going to do steal food from Africa?


9 posted on 06/08/2022 8:09:01 PM PDT by TBall
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To: BenLurkin

At least they can starve to death with a clean conscience.


10 posted on 06/08/2022 8:09:15 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: BenLurkin

Which U.S. idiot is saying that? Maybe he should try poisoning the grain just to make sure.


11 posted on 06/08/2022 8:10:04 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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12 posted on 06/08/2022 8:14:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Is our own baby formula food crisis over already? Nope. But the coverage is. Seem like God is judging America to me.


13 posted on 06/08/2022 8:15:23 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Blessed are the peace makers.)
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To: TigersEye; BenLurkin

I’ve heard a liberal advise others to not feed the homeless. Let them get jobs if they want to survive, she said.


14 posted on 06/08/2022 8:15:33 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Jyotishi

It wouldn’t surprise me if they proposed euthanizing them.

The Biden admin approach would be “We didn’t see it coming. We can’t do anything about that. It will get better.”


15 posted on 06/08/2022 8:18:35 PM PDT by TigersEye (Shall not be infringed!)
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To: D Rider

“Telling Africans to stop buying and trading stolen goods?”

If that works in Minneapolis with the ghetto animals, I’m all ears..


16 posted on 06/08/2022 8:19:08 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2018 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Warns”?

smh


17 posted on 06/08/2022 8:22:20 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: BenLurkin

How are they going to distinguish the original Russian export from “stolen” export? As a side note, the “stolen” wheat is going to get exported by the same farmers. If they are under Russian jurisdiction right now it doesn’t change much. What should they do? Do they expect them to stop farming and selling wheat if they aren’t Ukrainian anymore? Now tell me who wants famine. It is obviously not Russia.


18 posted on 06/08/2022 8:26:53 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: BenLurkin

When I was a little kid - mid 1950’s...2nd & 3rd grade, I collected change, hitting up my relatives for UNICEF to help the “starving pagan babies” in africa.

They are still starving 66 years later ? whatever is being done isn’t working.


19 posted on 06/08/2022 8:27:23 PM PDT by stylin19a (this space for rent)
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We were sending food when we should have been sending birth control.


20 posted on 06/08/2022 8:33:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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