Posted on 05/29/2025 2:29:00 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko called on Wednesday for the country to produce more potatoes in the face of a large shortage of the key crop and rising demand from neighbouring Russia.
"We have to grow enough so that it suffices for us and for Russia," Lukashenko said during a meeting with regional officials in Minsk, state news agency BelTA reported.
The potato has in the past been seen as a symbol of Lukashenko's rule of the country, which is heavily dependant on agriculture. He was once head of a state-run collective farm, or sovkhoz.
Food shortages have arisen recently in the country's largely planned economy. Lukashenko has attributed this to problems with Russian agriculture, saying that Russia had bought up Belarusian stocks.
The two countries are closely linked in a Union State aimed at deepening economic and defence policy.
"We have to help our brothers, the Russians," Lukashenko said, adding that growing potatoes was a key way that Belarus could help. He noted that it was also profitable.
Russian food prices have risen sharply, with potato price inflation among the highest.
A few weeks ago, the crisis led the Minsk government to increase vegetable prices, which are fixed by the state.
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Russia is suffering from its own, self-inflicted Holodomor. Now has to be bailed out buy a lesser state it also wishes to subsume.
How fitting.
Further evidence of Putin’s blind ambition gone wrong.
The man is a Putin stooge. A dictatorship like his is what some people want for Ukraine.
Putin fans post stupid crap.
Military Summary Channel
https://youtu.be/jNvlc-edisc
Facts on the ground.
“I can’t believe you believe this shit.”
They don’t...just here to SPAM the site.
Putin fans are still upset about Kamala losing...
Kameltoe fans were wrapping themselves in blue & yellow flags, whut?
“Muh Russia” ?
>Who you gonna believe? Me, or your lyin’ eyes. You
That little pimp has milked us—through democrats and neocons—of $182.8 billion in emergency funding with about $83.4 billion actually disbursed so far.
Or should I say, in debt stacked on the shoulders of our children.
It is hard to believe some conservatives think we should pound even more IOUs into that rat sinkhole.
If the major and minor slavs want to keep killing themselves, and ignore Trump’s efforts to mediate an end to the slaughter, they can do it on the euros’ dime.
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