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| Biden On Food Shortages: ‘It's Going To Be Real' |
| 2022-03-27 |
| [DailyWire] On Thursday, President Joe Biden took questions from the press in Brussels, Belgium, after meeting with the G-7 alliance to discuss the Western world’s response to Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine. Biden confirmed speculation that food shortages caused by the war in Ukraine are going to impact much of the world in the year ahead. “It’s going to be real,” Biden said at the news conference in reference to food shortages. “The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well.” At the same time, “fertilizer prices have also seen more than their fair share of volatility as the war in Ukraine disrupts supply chains and alters demand,” he added. “Russia, which supplies roughly ten percent of all fertilizer for American farmers, no longer allows such exports to the United States,” which adds to the problem, Phillips explained. |
| Posted by:Spineger Phomock4157 |
| #24 @#21 - And remember, for some reason, all of the pork factories in the US that had outbreaks of COVID back in 2020. Kind of weird. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-03-27 21:50 |
| #23 Planned for. Will be good and fat until late 2023. Then lean and mean until late 2024. BTW : Noticed shortages in wally world this week for frozen french fries, Cheap TV Dinners, cheap pizzas, and certain can veggies.... |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-03-27 21:30 |
| #22 Hutchison Whampoa (Chinese firm) “operates” the Panama Canal as I recall. They also are involved with the Suez authority but not to the same extent. Handy for the Chinese BRI project |
| Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 2022-03-27 20:51 |
| #21 The Chinese own 1/3 of American pork production. As we saw once Covid hit, owning things on the far side of the ocean is easy. During troubled times, actually getting the owned stuff delivered as contracted can be problematic. Tit for tat and quid pro quo, sauce for the goose, reap what you sow.... so many ways to sat that China ought to consider its next steps carefully. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-03-27 20:42 |
| #20 The Chinese own 1/3 of American pork production. |
| Posted by: Uliting Shomotch3226 2022-03-27 19:05 |
| #19 We don't need the globohomos on the coasts. The interior of the US has everything an advanced economy needs. Fresh water, rich farmland, oil-gas-coal, hydroelectric power, advanced manufacturing of nearly everything, world-class huge public research universities with tons of STEM talent, the best medical facilities in the nation (Cleveland, Mayo Clinic, UTSouthwestern, Anderson in Houston etc). Screw Biden and the climate change globalist nutjobs. Let the coasts fend for themselves |
| Posted by: Lonzo Wittlesbach1269 2022-03-27 15:03 |
| #18 You know, we have this place called the American Midwest that grows LOTS of food. Any non-counterproductive government policy (I know. But a boy can dream.) would take advantage of this gift and assure enough food for us. |
| Posted by: Tom 2022-03-27 14:38 |
| #17 ‘It's Going To Be Real' Only for the little people. The important and smart people will not be effected. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2022-03-27 14:29 |
| #16 Putting his descent into end-stage Trump derangement syndrome aside, George Will made one incisive observation back in the day: Leftists see history as a ratchet rather than as a cycle or pendulum. Leftist aims, once achieved, can never be undone. That is why the left is on an obsessive mission to erase history. The past does not exist, only the deeply flawed and unjust present and the Glorious Utopian Future™ that only leftist policies can provide. What they do not bargain for is a future that involves a descent into a new dark age, Heinlein's "bad luck" or a spin of the cycle or swing of the pendulum that brings the exact opposite of what the left desires. We got a taste of it with Trump and given the right circumstances could get a bigger taste of it again. Imagine the diametric opposite of open borders, a legal system run for the benefit of criminals and rampant wokeness. Unlikely? Don't bet on it. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-27 14:06 |
| #15 The complete fencing of the border with Mexico seems an imperative now. In the pre-Reagan era, the USBP actually had use of force protocols that included deadly force to stop suspected illegals, though rarely needed or used. The volume of entrants not caught was small enough that interior enforcement by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement held serious incursion numbers in check. Today, when enforcement is actually used at all, its mostly tackle football, if anything. It has become a flood of millions a year now, and they are filling urban areas to overflow, with rural spill over growing rapidly, visit any food bank, school cafeteria feeding large families or emergency room to see the proof of it. Since even non-lethal force at the border is almost impossible to contemplate in current political realities, only the physical barrier offers any immediate hope of preserving what is left of American sovereignty. We are rapidly being bled dry of remaining wealth by tolerance beyond all reason by demokrat elites who have no concept of real privation or want. But it is coming, hard, if they dominate our political system much longer. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-03-27 13:39 |
| #14 the first thing it would do is to preserve (or reestablish) our ability to determine who enters and who dosn't. How do you suppose the Open Society types, WEF types and gerbalists will respond to that? We'll hear a lot of caterwauling about how preventing unregulated migration across borders is rayciss and so forth. Will we see, for example, blue helmeted UN "peace-keepers" breaching border fences or engaging in fire fights with border patrols? How long would the UN be able to remain headquartered in NYC if we had a US gummint that didn't dig that sort of activity? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-27 13:00 |
| #13 What do you think is going to happen in Paris and Chicago and Brussels when there’s not enough food? Well, the riche in those places will either leave (they can afford to and will always be welcome somewhere with their money) or stick it out to the extent that's possible. The bulk of the urban populace will do what? Leave on foot? Thumb a ride? Catch a bus or train? To where? When the SHTF you can bet non-urban areas will suddenly rediscover the joys and necessities of stringent anti-vagrancy laws. And it won't matter if the local political class and LE authorities are woke. If they want to remain in their positions, they will quickly discover that responsiveness to the demands of their constituents are hard to insulate themselves from. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-27 12:56 |
| #12 #9 That is a question from hell, and I sure don't have an answer. But if we had a rational government the first thing it would do is to preserve (or reestablish) our ability to determine who enters and who dosn't. |
| Posted by: Matt 2022-03-27 12:54 |
| #11 With BLM fading they need another source of riots to distract the proles. "Beasley was keen to stress that it is not just a migrant crisis that Europe is running the risk of with the ongoing food crisis. The former Republican politician painted a picture of mass unrest in Africa, Europe, and the United States as a result of the ongoing crisis. "What do you think is going to happen in Paris and Chicago and Brussels when there’s not enough food?” he asked. “It’s easy to sit on your high horse in your ivory tower when you’re not the one starving.” |
| Posted by: Squinty Schwarzeneggar3170 2022-03-27 12:38 |
| #10 Hungry strangers beating on my door or trying to break into my house are in a dangerous situation too... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-27 12:38 |
| #9 What are we going to do if 10 million hungry people show up on the border? Seriously, how would we deal with that when they just keep coming? Hungry people who can't feed their kids are dangerous, and million and millions of them know the way since their relatives are already here. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-03-27 12:36 |
| #8 UN Director Warns Europe of ‘Hell on Earth’ Migrant Crisis Amid Global Food Shortage |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-03-27 11:29 |
| #7 #4 - Why, why yes he did |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-03-27 10:54 |
| #6 ^ "We Live in a Time of Utter Madness and We’re Ruled by Lawless Monsters” – Michele Bachmann at Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast Yes, exactly. Biden is the one whose regime should be overthrown |
| Posted by: Squinty Schwarzeneggar3170 2022-03-27 10:26 |
| #5 I'll go with Michele Bachmann's comments at a prayer breakfast for this article as well as others about these times: Michele Bachmann at Jerusalem prayer breakfast. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2022-03-27 09:58 |
| #4 Didn't also say something along the lines last year that the unvaxxed were going to suffer and die in great numbers during the winter? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-03-27 08:20 |
| #3 This will be expanded in apocalyptic terms and when we have to pay 40% more for food, Joe will take credit for saving us from the famine ravaging everywhere else. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2022-03-27 08:14 |
| #2 Please call me when he quits eating. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-03-27 01:55 |
| #1 "It's going to be real" Was this lost in translation? Or did his brain stop functioning when he mumbled "real..." -- perhaps he meant "real[ly] cool, man"? Or "really lucrative" for his family? |
| Posted by: Squinty Schwarzeneggar3170 2022-03-27 00:44 |