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Ukraine’s Growing Fuel Crisis Will Cause Global Hunger and Worsen Inflation
TIME ^ | 3/15/22 | SURIYA JAYANTI

Posted on 05/18/2022 12:24:00 PM PDT by JonPreston

Farmers in Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, have run out of fuel. Two weeks into Russia’s assault on Ukraine supply chains are disrupted and a critical shortage of fuel for tractors and trucks is pushing Ukraine’s agricultural sector toward collapse. If it does not secure diesel soon, Europe could face massive price spikes for agricultural commodities and challenging food shortages.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fuel; hunger; ukrains
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To: JonPreston
--- "We have many, many dimwits on our side."

I have so observed.

21 posted on 05/18/2022 12:49:26 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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To: Its All Over Except ...

*was


22 posted on 05/18/2022 12:52:13 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: JonPreston
There is no “global fuel crisis”. There is a willful attempt by the US Democrat Party to destroy US Energy production.

Repeal that idiocy and problem solved.

23 posted on 05/18/2022 12:53:04 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: JonPreston

Why is the US the only country with the “baby forumla crisis”?


24 posted on 05/18/2022 12:54:22 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: JonPreston

“shut up.”

If you’re going to post photos you can at least provide some info on them, such as date and place, so those on the thread can get a reference as to what they are. Hell, to me they look like a Louisiana grocery store right before a hurricane.

You just toss crap in willy-nilly. You just make stuff up. You are what is known as a provocateur.


25 posted on 05/18/2022 12:54:41 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: JonPreston

“an imaginary food crisis”

Well, at least some places are well-stocked against a rainy day!
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/russias-wheat-exports-seen-rising-in-new-season-amid-large-crop-stockpile


26 posted on 05/18/2022 12:54:50 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: blam
...a young guy, maybe 30, not a regular Walmart looking customer...

Okay. You've got me curious. What would make somebody "a regular Walmart looking customer"? I don't shop at Walmart, but just in case I'd decide to someday, I'd like to know how to avoid standing out as unusual somehow.

27 posted on 05/18/2022 12:55:11 PM PDT by Wissa (The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.)
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To: JonPreston
or hungry enough...


28 posted on 05/18/2022 12:56:26 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: MNJohnnie

Like most crises, its manmade. Same organization that says MrNA serums are good for ages 5-11 has kept one of the largest plants shut down for a while.


29 posted on 05/18/2022 12:57:28 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: LouieFisk

Wow. This should be posted as a separate article, Louie.


30 posted on 05/18/2022 12:57:46 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: JonPreston

Ukraine supplies 90% of Europe’s sunflower oil, used for cooking purposes. So Europe gets screwed here.


31 posted on 05/18/2022 12:58:08 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: Chode

Very true.


32 posted on 05/18/2022 12:58:20 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: All

The Duran just released another video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o46WxsO_7gM

Kremlin hardliners and the Special Military Operation

The gist is that Putin is now getting a lot of criticism for being too cautious especially from other Kremlin insiders and that there are fears the West will continue to expand the conflict including with some NATO troops. Putin’s critics want him to go on an all out war footing throughout Ukraine, instead of this special military operation.

I posted the following Ukrainian insider post earlier today that increases concern that the west is determined to ratchet this up.

Slavyangrad - Gleb Bazov
Another report on the NATO command group in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, from @Legitimniy (also a Ukrainian “insider”-type Telegram channel).

Our source reports that the West is increasingly willing to control the entire Ukrainian crisis. Therefore, the Pentagon wants to introduce compulsory military control over the Ukrainian armed forces.

It is planned to deploy a special group of officers of the US armed forces in the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense. They will not only be advisers, but also have the authority to directly issue orders to Ukrainian units and formations, as well as cancel orders from the higher command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard. In case of refusal, Washington plans to delay funding and arms supplies to Kyiv.

The source adds that the Pentagon is extremely dissatisfied with the current level of military planning, as well as the organization of hostilities on the part of the Ukrainian command (it is one thing to sit in defence in cities, and quite another to go into the fields on a counteroffensive). This opinion is shared by the State Department and the Biden government.

Therefore, it is planned to deploy a group of high-ranking American military men with very broad powers in Ukraine. Formally, they will be advisers, but at the same time they will have the right to give orders to the Ukrainian forces, as well as cancel orders of the Ukrainian higher command.

But, according to our source, the Ukrainian General Staff is against such an appointment. They believe that the US military does not understand how to counter the Russians. And all the advice previously issued by the Pentagon ha led to failures at the front. That is, each side blames the other behind the scenes. So far, this whole story remains purely behind the scenes and a secret.

As the Duran analyst always says...”The West has no reverse gear” :-(


33 posted on 05/18/2022 12:59:08 PM PDT by Cathi
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To: Its All Over Except ...

“Looks like the author has turned on his masters in these recent articles you’re posting.”

The thing with propaganda is that you eventually have to do a 180 and say “Wow, there’s been a sudden change!” as a cover for having spread BS.

It’s along the same line as polls that will offer up improbable “outcomes” but suddenly switch to a different outcome as an election gets closer. Like the media and Ukraine, they know they can only deny the reality for so long.


34 posted on 05/18/2022 1:03:24 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: PMAS
Yeah. Come about late summer/fall. Been hearing farmers aren't planting as much.

And how much you want to bet Biden and company will be exporting what little there is? Muh Ukraine, of course.

When poeple ask me who to thank, I'll point to the house that had a Biden sign on the lawn.

35 posted on 05/18/2022 1:03:48 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Renfrew; JonPreston; PMAS
A Democrat Deep Stater who tried to take down Trump now spreading fear porn so that her kind can take over to stop an imaginary a carefully manufactured food crisis.

There, fixed it for you

36 posted on 05/18/2022 1:06:44 PM PDT by Jaded (Pope Francis? Definitely NOT a fan... miss the last guy )
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To: JonPreston

It’s yours, if you’re so moved.
:D


37 posted on 05/18/2022 1:11:26 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Wissa
"Okay. You've got me curious. What would make somebody "a regular Walmart looking customer"? I don't shop at Walmart, but just in case I'd decide to someday, I'd like to know how to avoid standing out as unusual somehow. "

This is what he was:

* Well dressed, designer clothes
* Real healthy looking, maybe a bit of a weight-lifter?
* Expensive hair-cut, stylishly done
* Expensive watch, shoes.
* (ahem) Nice teeth.(had his own teeth)
* Well spoken
* White male.

38 posted on 05/18/2022 1:16:15 PM PDT by blam
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To: Tench_Coxe
"Yeah. Come about late summer/fall. Been hearing farmers aren't planting as much."

My local farmer, hasn't even bothered with 1/3 to 1/2 of what he normally plants. It's just sitting there. The corn is coming up in the other areas he's planted.

39 posted on 05/18/2022 1:21:09 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Thanks for the info. Not too many items on the list would apply to me.


40 posted on 05/18/2022 1:23:09 PM PDT by Wissa (The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.)
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