Posted on 05/23/2022 2:39:40 PM PDT by grundle
Vladimir Putin’s atrocities are growing by the day. In addition to having the blood of Ukrainians on his hands from his completely unjustified war, the Russian leader is also responsible for the growing starvation of people around the world. Ukraine is the breadbasket for much of the Middle East and North Africa. Right now, Mr. Putin is preventing Ukrainian grain from leaving the port of Odessa and along other key Black Sea routes. The result is dire: Global food prices are at an all-time high, and 276 million people are food insecure — more than double the numbers from 2019.
Sri Lanka is the latest example of just how devastating Mr. Putin’s global food crisis is becoming. The island nation has nearly run out of food and fuel. People are lining up for days for what little is still available. As one desperate father told Reuters, “Without food, we are going to die.” As food prices have skyrocketed since Mr. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Sri Lankans have not been able to afford the higher costs, and the government does not have enough money to help. The country just defaulted on its debt for the first time in its history.
Mr. Putin’s next moves will decide whether much of the developing world experiences mass hunger and even famine this year and next. World leaders are urging the Russian leader to at least allow grain shipments out of Ukraine to help feed tens of millions of people in countries that rely heavily on imported food — such as Sri Lanka, Burkina Faso, Yemen, Sudan, Lebanon, Tanzania, Uganda, Egypt, Tunisia and Cameroon.
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Is Putin the only person manufacturing food now? LOL
Can't grow food in those places? Or can't be bothered?
Amazing how just one white guy, can starve so many people.
One has to ask why can’t they feed themselves?
Consider the culture and religion.
Can’t AMAZON pick up the slack and ship food to all these countries free of charge??
I thought president Zelenskyy halted supplies of grain to other countries.
President Trump didn’t need Putin.
Why does the left need him all at once?
MMMMHHH.
Poorly timed rant by wapo.
Ukraine sows crops on over 80% of planned lands - ministry
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4065040/posts?page=6
It's time to stop whining and negotiate and end to the war.
Ukraine is the breadbasket for much of the Middle East and North Africa.
Not really around the world. And I imagine it would be for sale, in Rubles.
Putin is starving millions of people around the world
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I suppose economic specialization and the comparative advantages gained by it can be a drawback from time to time, eh? For one, it leaves nations quite vulnerable when they become too dependent on a small group of producers somewhere (even if they are more efficient).
“Amazing how just one white guy, can starve so many people.
One has to ask why can’t they feed themselves?”
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Hell, it sounds like we should be thankful to the guy for having fed us and the entire world for untold years! No small feat, that, keeping all mankind alive, lo, all these centuries!
I dunno that you’d really wanna get such an omnipotent godlike being POed!
I read a book written in the 1800s and the way the author put it re; moslems was ‘slovenly methods of agriculture’
The man left no one scratching their head, thinking, What is he getting at?
Well...in SA and Zimbabwe, we all know why they cant produce enough for themselves.
Now in Zimbabwe, I read that they are crying for the white farmers to come back in and get production back up on the very farms they kicked the white farmers off from.
Negotiation seems like a lost art. Or one easily lost, at least for a time. Trump was always negotiating.
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