Posted on 04/03/2022 3:32:47 PM PDT by blam
A Russian government official has threatened that Russia will limit its vital food exports to only nations it considers “friendly”.
Dmitry Medvedev, a senior Russian security official who previously served as the nation’s president, has threatened that Russia may soon cut off the West from food exports.
A major player in the global market for wheat and other agri-food products, Russia will instead focus on keeping itself fed, according to Medvedev, alongside supplying its friends and close allies.
Posting on his Telegram, Medvedev said that cutting off the likes of North America and the European Union from its agricultural produce would be a very good way of retaliating against sanctions imposed by the West.
“It so happened that the food security of many countries depends on our supplies,” the Russian official wrote. “It turns out that our food is our quiet weapon. Quiet but ominous.”
“The priority in food supplies is our domestic market. And price control,” he continued. “We will supply food and crops only to our friends (fortunately, we have a lot of them, and they are not at all in Europe and not in North America). We will sell both for rubles and for their national currency in agreed proportions.”
“We will not supply our products and agricultural products to our enemies,” he went on to say. “And we won’t buy anything from them (although we haven’t bought anything since 2014, but the list of products prohibited for import can be further expanded).”
Medvedev’s threat echoes others being made by the Russian government, such as that reportedly “unfriendly” nations will soon be forced to pay for a variety of Russian resources — including the country’s much sought after gas exports — in rubles only, or be cut off from supply completely.
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Imagine that.
Someone doesn’t want to feed their enemies.
Who would have thought?
There needs to be a free flow of fuel, fertilizer, and food between countries of European heritage in the Northern Hemisphere.
Well, Americans are certainly more than willing to give up food and pay $50,000 for a green-new-deal car to help the pint-sized Ukraine dictator hang on before he loots and flees his fiefdom.
Nothing is too good for Z, if we have to sacrifice what little of the American way of life we still have left for Z, deal me in!!!
Well, Freepers have been prepping for this for twenty years. I don’t see much to worry about. Keep in mind; lefttards taste like chicken…
Why forscribe Argentina abd Brazil?
The Russian people, despite their villain leader Putin, are not enemies of Americans.
Americans, despite their villain leader Biden, are not enemies of the Russian people.
Both countries should work together to forge a Northern Hemisphere economic alliance.
Both countries will need better leaders to do that successfully.
China isn’t going to be selling the West foodstuffs either. So isn’t Central Asia.
To the best of my knowledge neither our government nor Europe bothered to ask their respective monetary and commodity institutions for any evaluation of cancel culture on a nation with these vital commodities - a worse case scenario.
Germany raising retail food prices 20-50% tomorrow is not something to dismiss and folks best be prepared for what happens after this years fall harvest
Western oligarchs won’t be the ones suffering because of this but I can’t blame Russia. I
Another epic fail by the Biden regime and the globalists.
A dictator by any other name ....
“forscribe”?
Screw Russia. We should attack at first light!
Golly. If only there was a huge nation on the other side of the world with vast resources and talent to produce agrichemicals, food, and oil to render Russia’s influence useless. If only.
Like crude oil, there is a global market for fertilizer.
It can be bought, traded, shipped, and resold.
Prices will rise but there will be plenty for all....spot shortages, maybe.
Especially here in the US. A smaller yield is all it means. Prices will go up, but there will be no starvation. Are they kidding?
No argument from me there.
Nevertheless, in the natural, no country, government, or people group is going to do good to those who are their enemies, especially in war.
That is my biggest concern if things with China heat-up as well.
America is in a world of hurt at that point, but then ...maybe we can put all those immigrants to work that are flooding our borders. You know, to do the jobs Americans won’t do. /semi-sarcasm
We are weeks away from the SHTF.
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