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2022-03-10 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukraine bans exports of wheat, oats and other food staples

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Posted by 3dc 2022-03-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 That'll teach those evil Egyptians. Let 'em starve.

We're now looking at actual hunger across the nations that depend on grain shipped through the Black Sea.

A pointless war over nothing - Ukraine doesn't even want NATO membership anymore, and has totally forgotten about Zekebsky's insane delusion of taking back Sevastopol. A war that will without question cause a huge and lasting increase in global poverty, hunger and freedom.

For what?

Why is our government supporting these deranged and corrupt little shits who are setting the world ablaze?

Posted by Clyde Unineck3410 2022-03-10 00:20|| 2022-03-10 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Hi Boris.

Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-10 00:22|| 2022-03-10 00:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Economist David P Goldman today in PJ Media about the disturbing parallels betweeen this war and WWI:

Reliving the Nightmare of WWI
WWI had no good guys, no winners, just mediocre, small-minded politicians unable to step back from the brink

The United States could have averted a crisis by adhering to the Minsk II framework of local rule for the Russophone provinces of Eastern Ukraine within a sovereign Ukrainian state but chose instead to keep open Ukraine’s option to join NATO.

That was rational, but also stupid: It backed Putin into a corner.There is no excuse for Putin’s action, but there is an explanation that’s similar to one that applied to his forbears of 1914: Putin chose to attack before the West had the opportunity to arm Ukraine with sophisticated weapons that would raise the future cost of military action.

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-10 00:39|| 2022-03-10 00:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Amazing how desperate some people are to blame anyone except Putin.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-10 04:39|| 2022-03-10 04:39|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Don't bite the hand that ~~beats~~ feeds you?

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-10 06:40|| 2022-03-10 06:40|| Front Page Top

#6
OK, so we can expect a run on flour and cereals next, as Biden ships #### tons of US Wheat to _______.

Question: While stocking up for the next C-19 Strain, likely due in 6 to 7 months.

While shopping we have been noticing shortened/reduced "BEST IF USED BY", "SELL BY", and expiration dates on a lot of products in the stores. We initially figured it had to do with the C-19/21 Pandemic and the related issues it caused on harvesting, production, and transportation to markets.

But when storing the newly purchased items with previously purchased same brand name items. We quickly noticed the older purchased items had further out Expiration Dates stamped on them than the newly purchased items????????

Posted by NN2N1 2022-03-10 07:25|| 2022-03-10 07:25|| Front Page Top

#7 #6
Less or no radiation used in processing?

Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-03-10 08:05|| 2022-03-10 08:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Its only making official what those who know have known for two weeks now.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-10 10:07|| 2022-03-10 10:07|| Front Page Top

#9 #1 That'll teach those evil Egyptians. Let 'em starve.

Revolutions and civil wars in Egypt and a dozen other countries coming in 10... 9... 8...

Posted by Porthos 2022-03-10 10:48|| 2022-03-10 10:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Amazing how desperate some people are to blame anyone except ~~Putin~~ Biden for the high cost of energy.

(they didn't wait long enough for enough people to forget we were energy independent and an exporter of the stuff)

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-10 10:52|| 2022-03-10 10:52|| Front Page Top

#11 This is deliberate. No one could be so stupid as to fail to see how nuclear sanctions would blow back against us. They want us to be poor and dependent on the gummint.

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-10 10:55|| 2022-03-10 10:55|| Front Page Top

#12 And now here come the regime's propagandists - from Slate yesterday:

Are Gas Prices Too High? Or Is Your Car Too Big?

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-10 11:00|| 2022-03-10 11:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Slate has always been a Dem Bootlicker

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-10 11:18|| 2022-03-10 11:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Learn the Rules:
Your car's too big
Your house is too big and warm (North) or cool (South)
Your children have the wrong kind of immunity and are too patriotic
Your thoughts are incorrect

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-10 11:36|| 2022-03-10 11:36|| Front Page Top

#15 Slate and the rest of the hard left totally hate the Democrats.

They cheated Bernie Sanders out of the nomination, remember? Twice.

Posted by Sheter the Lesser9291 2022-03-10 11:43|| 2022-03-10 11:43|| Front Page Top

#16 It backed Putin into a corner.

Back a guy like that into a corner and then act all butt hurt when he comes out shooting.

Question: Whatever could have been the benefit to the average American?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-10 12:51|| 2022-03-10 12:51|| Front Page Top

#17 And I do mean the average American. We all know what the Bidens had at stake.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-10 12:53|| 2022-03-10 12:53|| Front Page Top

#18 WTF are "nuclear sanctions"? Part of new talking points?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-10 13:28|| 2022-03-10 13:28|| Front Page Top

#19 WTF are nuclear sanctions?

Explained here by Julia Friedlander of the pro-Ukraine Atlantic Council

The West Has Declared Financial War on Russia. Is It Prepared for the Consequences?
JULIA FRIEDLANDER
03/08/2022
politico.com

The U.S. and Europe are using sanctions to try and stop a war that’s already underway. It’s a huge gamble....

Julia Friedlander is the C. Boyden Gray senior fellow & director of the Economic Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council. She previously served as senior policy advisor for Europe in the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and as director for the European Union, Southern Europe and Economic Affairs at the National Security Council.

Posted by Porthos 2022-03-10 13:35|| 2022-03-10 13:35|| Front Page Top

#20 Julia Friedlander:

But the West’s response is no longer just pressure — it’s financial war.

As opposed to previous sanctions campaigns, which sought to use pressure over time to bring a country to the table or prompt a longer-term behavior change, the goal of these Russia sanctions is to change military strategy in a war that is already happening.

Can financial pressure force a leader bent on war to alter battle plans — a decision that would need to play out in days, not months or years? Can the U.S. and its partners wreak enough havoc on the Russian economy in time to make war unsustainable? No one can answer that.

Posted by Porthos 2022-03-10 13:50|| 2022-03-10 13:50|| Front Page Top

#21 Well, nuking nodes of commerce, neutral and even friendly non-combatants be damned has caught the attention of a few normies.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-10 14:39|| 2022-03-10 14:39|| Front Page Top

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