Ukraine Bans Wheat & Grain Exports Vital To Global Food Supply, Citing Citizens Under Siege

Nation And State ^ | 3-9-2022

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Looks like Ukraine just put Europe and maybe the world on a diet.

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Brace For High Oil Prices, Inflation, And An Economic Slowdown

"According to Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, if the West sanctions Russian oil exports, the price for the commodity could reach $300 per barrel, and although this is quite an unlikely scenario, in reality, oil prices do seem to have quite a while left to rise."

[JonPreston]

Those in our Imperial Capitol are very happy.

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Dont fault them one bit. Take of your own first.

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*Take care of your own first*

[sanjuanbob]

No more Mr Nice Guy!

[Travis McGee]

Ukraine plus Russia = about 28% of global grain sales.

I don't see Ukraine planting any grain in 2022. Or Russia selling to the countries that are waging economic war against it.

Michael Yon calls it PanFaWar:

Pandemic, Famine, War.

But some folks are pushing hard for PanFaWar: it's all part of their plan.

"The worse, the better." Lenin

A wrecked global economy, a smaller global population, and Klaus as global leader.

PS: Uncle Klaus has a bust of Lenin on the shelf behind him in office photos. And he's on video bragging about how "The Soros Empire" succeeded "The Soviet Empire."

[unixfox]

And to think that our government pays farmers NOT to grow.

We have lost our collective minds!

[allendale]

There will be a famine. It is being caused by the lunatics who are dismantling the fossil fuel industry. Natural is the essential component of fertilizer. It is now scarce and expensive. Farmers around the world project lower crop yields. The diminution of economic activity will leave people unable to afford what little food is available. The famine and resulting wars will have nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with lunacy.

[Pocketdoor]

Major Major’s farther was the best at not growing alfalfa.

Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a longlimbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn’t earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major’s father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counseled one and all, and everyone said, “Amen.”

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Looks like Ukraine just put Europe and maybe the world on a diet.

I'd say that's on the Russian invasion. Can't expect a country that is being invaded and where people are going hungry because of that to export food.

[Yo-Yo]

Wait a minute... Ukraine is currently in a WAR, and all of its ports are under siege.

How could they export anything right now?

[ex91B10]

Dont fault them one bit. Take of your own first.

Amen. Wish the bozo's in DC understood that concept.

Open our oil production instead of begging the world to up theirs.

[wastedyears]

This whole thing is a movie.

[jz638]

Who wants to bet that gas, wheat, and a half dozen other consumer staples will be cheaper in Ukraine by the summer than they are in the US.

[circlecity]

Famine, pestilence and the sword.

[kiryandil]

That’s some catch, that Ukrainian-Catch.

[KrisKrinkle]

They "banned" it? Given their present situation, how could they export it if they wanted to?

[JoJo354]

Maybe farmers should get back to growing wheat and corn (not for ethanol) but for human consumption again. That is what we will need the most before this is all done.

[Kazan]

Russia needs to tighten the stranglehold it has one the Ukrainian troops in Eastern Ukraine so the farmers can get back to work.