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 ...
Cornel?
Isn’t cabbage their other staple? Forget the potatoes - make/eat stuffed cabbage rolls!!!
Cornell, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. Lots of potatoes in the UP.
We’ve got a ton of potatoes in Idaho, Washington, and yes, Maine.
Russia, you can’t have any of them.
Thanks - I was wondering the same.
Thanks.
Plenty more in North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
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?
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.
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.
Perhaps Putin can put the 50,000 recent conscripts to use by planting potatoes instead of dying in Ukraine.
Funny huh? They got a sellers market going on and now the freedom loving people on site are against it.
Which is odd because most Americans think eating turkey eggs falls somewhere between weird and gross.
lol
Gonna tell Bill Gates where he can sell his potatoes?
Thats RIGHT. Gates is a major producer.
Aint that a bitch?
Potato crisis.
Sounds like Babylon Bee to me.
Nah. He’s gonna get all the potatoes he needs from invading Finland.
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.
No way!
You will have to tear Marcus from FR Cold Dead Hands.
He is Comedy Gold Jerry.😄
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.
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