Posted on 03/26/2022 3:53:00 PM PDT by Mariner
President Biden said Thursday that a food shortage is "gonna be real" following the sanctions that were placed on Russia by the U.S. government as a result of Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion into Ukraine.
"With regard to food shortage, yes we did talk about food shortages, and it's gonna be real," Biden said during a press conference at a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, following a meeting with other world leaders.
"The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia," he added. "It’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well."
Biden said "Russia and Ukraine have been the breadbasket of Europe in terms of wheat" and insisted that he and other leaders had a "long discussion in the G7" about the need to "increase and disseminate" food production.
"In addition to that, we talked about urging all the European countries, and everyone else, to end trade … limitations on sending food abroad," Biden said. "And, so, we are in the process of working out with our European friends what it would take to help alleviate the concerns relative to the food shortages."
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I liked the other with three eyes....
Every year the government pays farmers NOT to produce. If we put all of that land into tillage,
Merci beaucoup...........
Russia gets rich while Americans get economically gang banged.
Why is this happening, it’s so surreal.
Jill to Joe:
“I know it’s worrisome, Big Guy, but remember this...we’ll always have pudding.”
Those that thought George Orwell’s 1984 was a guiding primer.
Time to get the guns out.
The ground has just begun to thaw so they wouldn’t have time to plant anything just yet but there probably won’t be much planting because of the war damage.
Never pass up a chance to remind anyone who supports and voted for this disgusting nasty chomo they support and voted for a nasty dirty old chomo.
As usual you are an idiot, but I suppose you have an excuse in that you are repeating Biden somewhat.
Russia and Ukraine only represent 25% of food EXPORTS, but only 0.9% of wheat production worldwide. The concern the libtards are having is that the usual suspects are going to starve (Africa) because it is more difficult to get wheat exported from the USA and other countries than from Russia.
But this is already not a serious issue because food production is already going up by the millions of tons in India and other countries since market prices are incentivizing it. In the USA, we will produce 4 million more tons this summer than last summer due to the sensed higher demand that began in Winter.
“Russia and Ukraine only represent 25% of food EXPORTS”
Only 25% of exports lol
Driving the worldwide price of wheat (it’s a globally priced commodity, like oil) to at least double what it is now.
The same can be said of all globally priced agricultural commodities.
Russia and Ukraine export more wheat than the US, Canada and France combined.
So, yes, these commodities will be available to the highest bidder as a great portion has been taken off the market.
And this does not even take into account the reduced production due to high cost fertilizer, and in some cases lack of availability.
You are the idiot. And you hate your fellow Americans as much as you hate Russians, because you ADVOCATE for the policies that will harm them.
The flaw with JIT is that ‘government’ can get involved to f##k it up with almost no effort. Witness COVID and Russia/Ukraine War.
Good point.
Correction:
(Need redundant backups or expensive warehouses...or a new system based on ‘sometimes things go wrong’ because politicians make stupid decisions without knowing any of the unintended consequences...)
Three years ago, the stated estimated delivery times from Amazon, UPS, Fedex and even the USPS were pretty much correct.
All that went out the window with Covid, and now who knows what this UKR/RS is gonna be blamed for here now.
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