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Panicking Putin begs Europe's closest ally for potatoes as food crisis unravels
Express UK ^ | 5/29/2025 | WILL STEWART, ALICE SCARSI

Posted on 05/29/2025 7:24:56 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Vladimir Putin is demanding urgent potato imports from Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, while he delays supplying the ally with promised notorious Oreshnik horror missiles. Putin has made the shameful admission that he has run out of spuds - one of his country’s leading food staples - amid economic meltdown during his war with Ukraine.

It now appears Belarus will not get the lethal missiles until after Lukashenko supplies Putin with new exports of potatoes which have spiralled in prices in Russia. The Minsk tyrant has even cancelled sanctions against imports from the EU to stock up to supply Russia.

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The Belarus ruler - a Soviet-era potato farmer - told his officials: “There has been a lot of talk, especially after a meeting chaired by the Russian president [Vladimir Putin], who joked about potatoes. The issue is very serious to us. How?

“We know how to grow potatoes above all things. We should grow enough for ourselves and for Russia…. We need to help our brothers, the Russians. Besides, this is not charity. This is good money, good prices.”

This came as Putin previously told a Kremlin audience: “Speaking of potatoes, my father got me into this. It's not easy work, planting these potatoes, then weeding them. Robotics, at first glance, is more interesting….

“Yesterday, I repeat, I also met with representatives of…the agricultural sector. As it turns out we don't have enough potatoes. I talked to Alexander Lukashenko and he said: ‘We have already sold everything to Russia.’”

Lukashenko removed his own ban on importing potatoes from the EU to boost supplies amid the new order from Putin.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 05/29/2025 7:24:56 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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Another junk post. Thanks...


2 posted on 05/29/2025 7:27:29 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: marcusmaximus
Who remembers that when Reagan was president an intact Soviet Union with the breadbasket in Ukraine still had to buy wheat from the United States?
3 posted on 05/29/2025 7:28:06 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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4 posted on 05/29/2025 7:28:41 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Sacajaweau

Tell Putin to plant his own damn potatoes instead of begging Belarus for them.


5 posted on 05/29/2025 7:29:08 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Vigilanteman

Russia has always been a loser country that couldn’t feed their own citizens.


6 posted on 05/29/2025 7:30:26 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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The **REAL** reason: potatoes are used to make Vodka... (grin)


7 posted on 05/29/2025 7:31:11 AM PDT by Salgak (This is a Triumph. I'm making a note here, Huge Success! It's hard to overstate, my satisfaction. )
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Another junk post. Thanks...

sWill Stewart, MI-6's boy at SpamUK.


8 posted on 05/29/2025 7:31:21 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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“Another junk post. Thanks...”

More SPAMMING, perhaps the mods will tell him to knock it off.


9 posted on 05/29/2025 7:31:44 AM PDT by BobL
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All the Russian farm laborers were incinerated by Ukrainian drones. Damn, they weren’t taught to keep the tank hatches closed.


10 posted on 05/29/2025 7:31:44 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91. )
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Tell Putin to plant his own damn potatoes instead of begging Belarus for them.

Tell your mom to wash your socks this week.

11 posted on 05/29/2025 7:32:20 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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Q: How many potatoes does it take to kill a Russian?

A: None.


12 posted on 05/29/2025 7:32:58 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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Lol!


13 posted on 05/29/2025 7:33:19 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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Guess Putin didn’t think of implementing Nikita’s “Virgin Lands” program.


14 posted on 05/29/2025 7:33:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: kiryandil

What this stupid little canary doesnt know is that growers near Cornel just contracted to ship over 2 million pounds of spuds over.
They’ll load at Duluth.

This whole friggan thing is one big lie after another.


15 posted on 05/29/2025 7:34:47 AM PDT by crz
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I would like Putin to negotiate a peace treaty. Signed Donald Trump.


16 posted on 05/29/2025 7:35:02 AM PDT by Bayard
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Plenty were planted...Bad weather produced a bad crop. Nothing wrong with asking Belarus for potatoes.

We got eggs from Turkey.

17 posted on 05/29/2025 7:35:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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First, the leftist western media said Russia had no eggs. That was not true. Now the leftist western media is saying they have no potatoes 🥔? 👌


18 posted on 05/29/2025 7:36:19 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Love me some Cornell spuds.


19 posted on 05/29/2025 7:37:39 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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20 posted on 05/29/2025 7:38:40 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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