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Posted on 02/14/2024 10:38:15 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Russians have been told to grow their own bananas as a shortage looms, days after President Vladimir Putin issued a ban on imports from Ecuador, its largest supplier of the fruit, seemingly over an arms shipment spat.
Oleg Knyazkov, the head of the industry expertise center at Rosselkhoznadzor, the Russian consumer watchdog, told local news outlet Gazeta that he predicts there will be a nationwide shortage of bananas in a month. He advised Russians to start growing them domestically.
His comments come after Putin suspended banana imports from five Ecuadorian companies on February 2, saying the decision was made due to the detection of pests in shipments of the fruit. Weeks earlier, Quito accepted a U.S. offer to exchange Soviet-era military equipment for modern U.S. weapons in a deal worth $200 million.
The United States said that Ecuador's Soviet-era equipment would be sent to Ukraine amid the ongoing war started by Russia in February 2022.
The move was blasted by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, who said Ecuador had made a "reckless decision under serious pressure from external interested parties."
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How much of Russia could possibly be suitable for growing bananas there?
Sounds like just another anti-Russia attack. Can’t even picture Ukrainian folks eating bananas.
Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see Tucker Carlson?
Yes,we have no bananas.
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“Can’t even picture Ukrainian folks eating bananas.”
Ukraine is not in Russia.
GENERAL SYRSKY TAKES CHARGE AND UKRAINE CONTINUES TO FALTER
The leadership shakeup in Kiev, with President Zelensky giving he boot to General Zaluzhny and promoting General Syrsky to the top military slot, has not changed the dire situation the Ukrainian Army faces on the Donbass front. If anything, it has made matters worse. General Syrsky, who is known derisively among Ukrainian troops as “The Butcher,” seems intent on living up to his reputation as a leader who is careless with the lives of this troops.
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Biden’s fruitless effort to wrangle an additional $61 billion dollars out of Congress to send to Ukraine will not change Ukraine’s tactical disadvantage. Ukraine lacks the critical resource required to sustain the war — a well-trained cadre of soldiers. Russia’s successful strike on Selidovo is a brutal reminder that anytime Ukraine assembles a large group of soldiers (or trainees) they can be hit and decimated.
Syrsky is reported to be sending more of his best troops towards Avdeevka. If true, he is living up to his reputation as “General Butcher.” Those soldiers are likely to chewed up by the Russian grinding offensive. And the death of every experienced soldier puts Ukraine further into a hole that it cannot climb out of.
Tell Russia to bury Lenin’s corpse.
Just plant them alongside the winter wheat
Marcus and Chad are double-teaming us with the propaganda today. It’s as thick as…
…well, as thick as a Zeeper.
What Caesar Kunikov landing ship doink?
I’m thinking about both of them at the same time.
How many more of Ukraine’s few remaining elite troops died today in Avdeyevka?
Bananas (2) crazy, nuts, having a screw loose.
Bananas in Russia or drug trafficking, sex trafficking, Chinese nationals and potential Islamic terrorists crossing our borders...Which is should be taking up space here?
Now you have gone bananas? I thought the Ruskies were still working their way out of the cucumber crisis you were so fixated on. I suppose the last eggistential threat has passed as well. Sometimes I fear you eggsaggerate.
Indian bananas for Russia! E. coli stronk as bull!
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