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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

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To: crz

Cornel?


41 posted on 05/29/2025 8:02:36 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: marcusmaximus

Isn’t cabbage their other staple? Forget the potatoes - make/eat stuffed cabbage rolls!!!


42 posted on 05/29/2025 8:02:50 AM PDT by Thank You Rush ( )
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To: johniegrad

Cornell, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. Lots of potatoes in the UP.


43 posted on 05/29/2025 8:04:00 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: jjotto

We’ve got a ton of potatoes in Idaho, Washington, and yes, Maine.

Russia, you can’t have any of them.


44 posted on 05/29/2025 8:05:23 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Hail Trump! Trump won! By a lot! )
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To: kiryandil; crz

Thanks - I was wondering the same.


45 posted on 05/29/2025 8:05:52 AM PDT by Thank You Rush ( )
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To: kiryandil

Thanks.


46 posted on 05/29/2025 8:06:08 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: hoagy62

Plenty more in North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.


47 posted on 05/29/2025 8:08:46 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: kiryandil

Theyll be harvesting in the southern region over there by end of june...Georgia and south.

The rest’ll be made up by south america..like Brazil. Brazil and Argentina, etc are killing US agruculture. Brazil grows year round.

So what’s to be done? Cant blockade them since the ships will drop off at Georgia or someplace. Gonna target Georgian shipping?


48 posted on 05/29/2025 8:11:39 AM PDT by crz
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To: jjotto

US exports over 3 million metric tons of potatoes in several forms.

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3 million metric tons is quite different than 2 million pounds. Your point is taken. USA is providing Russia with food.


49 posted on 05/29/2025 8:13:37 AM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: hoagy62

Oh ya?
Distributor cones to any western potatoe growers farm and offers a price and they’ll sell.

You, me, nor anyone can say shit about it.

Those spuds would go to eastern Siberia though...or through some country on the pacfic rim.


50 posted on 05/29/2025 8:21:54 AM PDT by crz
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To: marcusmaximus

Perhaps Putin can put the 50,000 recent conscripts to use by planting potatoes instead of dying in Ukraine.


51 posted on 05/29/2025 8:22:15 AM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: jjotto

Funny huh? They got a sellers market going on and now the freedom loving people on site are against it.


52 posted on 05/29/2025 8:24:20 AM PDT by crz
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To: Sacajaweau

Which is odd because most Americans think eating turkey eggs falls somewhere between weird and gross.


53 posted on 05/29/2025 8:33:10 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (If you dont like my sense of humor, please let me know so I can laugh at you too.)
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To: gnarledmaw

lol


54 posted on 05/29/2025 8:36:00 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: hoagy62

Gonna tell Bill Gates where he can sell his potatoes?

Thats RIGHT. Gates is a major producer.

Aint that a bitch?


55 posted on 05/29/2025 8:38:01 AM PDT by crz
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To: marcusmaximus

Potato crisis.

Sounds like Babylon Bee to me.


56 posted on 05/29/2025 8:38:07 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: marcusmaximus

Nah. He’s gonna get all the potatoes he needs from invading Finland.


57 posted on 05/29/2025 8:38:33 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: Thank You Rush

This article is pure BS.

Right now, Brazil and the rest of the south American countries have completed harvest.

They’ll ship to Russia if need be. Itll go through another country..like Georgia or someplace.


58 posted on 05/29/2025 8:46:02 AM PDT by crz
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To: BobL

No way!

You will have to tear Marcus from FR Cold Dead Hands.

He is Comedy Gold Jerry.😄


59 posted on 05/29/2025 8:51:01 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !!)
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To: marcusmaximus

So, let the war continue since obviously Russia is losing (NOT winning, same thing).

Forget about tanks, drones, aircraft, soldiers. It all comes down to potatoes!

To Trump, just walk away.


60 posted on 05/29/2025 8:53:22 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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