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Title: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: guest55 on March 15, 2022, 10:45:29 pm
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Six in 10 Syrians don’t know where their next meal is coming from, according to Oxfam.

Syria relies on Russia for wheat, and Moscow’s attack on Ukraine has caused the Assad regime to ration food reserves amid fears of shortages and price surges, indicating darker days ahead for war-weary Syrians.
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxUonyPeQSc8c2P-R02XmTIp5qiWDnMcpF

(https://yt3.ggpht.com/4gEcx0J7wDazvEzyKwqT-v1hcGy5Nz1XMMA1J2c1fU3WEY_35_ItVRrcZI8dX8-fIr4HJ2W9JRfp=s640-nd-v1)

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In reality, 828 Syrians had been granted asylum status in Russia by the end of 2018. According to Ministry of the Interior estimates, 9,100 Syrian citizens were residing in the Russian Federation by the end of October 2018.
https://migrants-refugees.va/country-profile/russia/
Title: Re: War
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 13, 2022, 11:30:13 pm
https://us.yahoo.com/finance/news/russia-driven-food-shortage-means-162100144.html

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Russia-driven food shortage means cereal and corn will start running out in 2023, UN warns. ‘The world faces the risk of food shortages’
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Around 25 million tons of various staple grains are currently sitting in storage units in large port cities such as Odesa, waiting to be shipped to international markets, but they are unable to leave Ukraine because of an ongoing Russian blockade in the Black Sea.

On a recent visit to Odesa, the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, tweeted that he saw “silos full of grain, wheat and corn ready for export. This badly needed food is stranded because of the Russian war and blockade of Black Sea ports.”

On Thursday, Beasley implored Russian officials to lift the blockade at all costs to avert a global food shortage.

“If you have any heart at all for the rest of the world, regardless of how you feel about Ukraine, you need to open up those ports," he told CNN in statements directed at Russian President Vladimir Putin.

An indefinite blockade of Ukrainian ports would affect every country in the world, but some are more in need of food imports than others, and more at risk of a catastrophic food shortage.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Beasley warned that several countries in North and East Africa and the Middle East were poised to face “tremendous food security issues” in the near future due to the Ukraine war.

Several countries—including Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, and Cameroon—relied on Ukraine and Russia for at least half of their wheat imports before the war, according to the international NGO Human Rights Watch. Should food products remain stuck in Ukraine, these countries will be hit by food shortages first and hardest.

This should be more than enough reason for NATO troops to invade the Black Sea to destroy the Russian blockade ASAP.
Title: Re: Climate refugees
Post by: guest55 on May 22, 2022, 05:15:33 pm
US accuses Russia of triggering global food crisis
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The US will give Ukraine an additional $215 million in emergency food assistance to help the country battle the humanitarian crisis brought on by Russia's invasion, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced, as he called on other countries to swiftly act in order to tackle the growing global food crisis. #CNN #News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr4zmq0KLlk

Even if the war ended soon it will take Ukraine's agriculture years to recover...

U.N. cites Ukraine war in grain shortage
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Russia's war on Ukraine has disrupted the world's food supply. After the Russian military targeted a grain elevator in the city of Dnipro and blockaded Ukrainian sea transit routes, a halt on grain exports from the region has affected more than a billion people. Imtiaz Tyab has more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnDWACCTjys

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It is now a battle for the worlds food supply.
Title: Re: War
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 31, 2022, 08:36:53 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/food-crisis-looming-milley-says-122719182.html

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LONDON ― Amid mounting calls to break Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports for grain exports, America’s top military officer said that to do so militarily would amount to a “high risk military operation.”

For those subject to starvation, it is higher risk to do nothing about the blockade.

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Right now, the sea lanes are blocked by mines and the Russian navy. In order to open up those sea lanes would require a very significant military effort,” Milley said. If policymakers opted for it, “it would be a high-risk military operation that would require significant levels of effort.”

Just do it! Imagine if you were the one starving!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/far-ukraine-food-prices-hunger-115155948.html

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Another 18 million people are facing severe hunger in the Sahel, the part of Africa just below the Sahara Desert, where farmers are enduring their worst agricultural production in more than a decade. The U.N. World Food Program says food shortages could worsen when the lean season arrives in late summer.

“Acute hunger is soaring to unprecedented levels, and the global situation just keeps on getting worse. Conflict, the climate crisis, COVID-19 and surging food and fuel costs have created a perfect storm — and now we’ve got the war in Ukraine piling catastrophe on top of catastrophe,” WFP Executive Director David Beasley warned earlier this month.

Even the cost of therapeutic food for malnourished children could rise 16% over the next six months because of the war in Ukraine and disruptions related to the pandemic, UNICEF says.

African countries imported 44% of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine between 2018 and 2020, according to U.N. figures. The African Development Bank is already reporting a 45% increase in wheat prices on the continent, making everything from couscous in Mauritania to the fried doughnuts sold in Congo more expensive for customers.

“Africa has no control over production or logistics chains and is totally at the mercy of the situation,” said Senegalese President Macky Sall, the African Union chairman, who has said he will travel to Russia and Ukraine to discuss the price woes.
Title: Re: Agorism
Post by: NSFAN on June 04, 2022, 08:18:28 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLb0f-fjs58
Title: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: guest78 on July 03, 2022, 02:07:28 pm
Well worth the listen. This could fit under so many different topic threads on this forum:

Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bupS-d_cAtk

See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/

This could be seen as an opportunity by some states who prepare correctly in advance:
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/?message=14445
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/operation-gaddafi/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/solar-civilization-ideas/?message=14021

And especially if many of these refugees can be converted into Greens and Blues:
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/green-wave/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/demographic-blueshift/
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: guest78 on July 05, 2022, 01:39:44 pm
A world going hungry? How conflict and climate change disrupt global food supply | Business Beyond
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The battle against hunger is quite literally, an existential one. But there was a time when winning that battle seemed within reach - as production surpluses could have meant enough food for all. But climate change, conflict, and a broken food system have threatened that goal. Ukraine, a big provider of wheat to the world, is unable to export grain amid a blockade of its Black Sea ports, such as Odesa. While millions of tonnes of grain sit stuck in silos, countries dependent on these supplies have been left in a desperate situation. Starvation and malnutrition threaten the lives of tens of millions in places like Yemen and the Horn of Africa. Supply shortages have worsened the humanitarian crises.

CHAPTERS

0:00   INTRO
1:32   UKRAINE
6:15  CLIMATE CHANGE
8:28   BROKEN SYSTEM
10:13   SYSTEM COLLAPSE
11:16   ABCD DOMINANCE
15:37   SOLUTIONS
19:50   GOODBYE

#FoodCrisis #Ukraine #ClimateChange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YcvKvxWaCE

See also: AGORISM - https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/vertical-farming/

(https://i0.wp.com/marketbusinessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Autarky.png?resize=335%2C326&ssl=1)

Rather than being interdependent nations as idiotic globalists such as Henry Kissinger love to promote, nations should be self-reliant.

Furthermore, if your definition of "standard of living" includes not being poisoned by Western civilization yourself, 'standard of living' increases under Autarky rather than decreases. It all depends on whether you use the Western model to define "standard of living", or not!

(https://i0.wp.com/marketbusinessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Autarky_Trade.png?ssl=1)

See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: guest78 on July 13, 2022, 04:27:23 pm
Grain deadlock: Ukraine is 'two steps away' from a deal with Moscow | DW News
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Wednesday's discussions in Istanbul ended with a tentative agreement about how to transport the grain across the Black Sea. Stockpiles stuck in Ukraine have caused global prices to rise sharply, making food less affordable.

Turkey's defence minister says Russia and Ukraine have made progress in their efforts to get urgently needed grain exports out of Ukraine. He said talks will continue next week, in the hope of a final deal on releasing 20 million tonnes. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkiCOFNnn8A
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: guest78 on July 14, 2022, 11:41:21 am
Putin searching for allies in Turkey and Iran | General Sir Simon Mayall
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Time to invite you into our daily "Briefing Room", where one of our leading tactical and strategic minds - with years of experience as a general officer at the highest level of military command, shares their insights into the current state of the war in Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw9L5CBsUYo
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: guest78 on July 14, 2022, 12:36:23 pm
Ukraine and Russia negotiators in Turkey reach deal to resume grain exports | DW News
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After months of global grain shortages, negotiators in Turkey say they've reached a deal to resume grain exports from Ukraine. After hours of negotiations in Istanbul, Turkey's Defence Minister announced Ukraine and Russia had reached an agreement to allow grain shipments through the Black Sea. Turkey and the United Nations helped broker the deal, expected to be signed next week. The deal would end a months-long impasse that's left more than 20 million tons of much-needed grain stuck in Ukrainian ports -- unable to leave because of fighting in the country.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said more work was still needed to finalize the deal, but hailed the breakthrough as a 'critical step forward.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kEnP_Bjvg8
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: guest78 on July 16, 2022, 01:52:01 pm
Drone footage shows Russian artillery pounding Ukrainian wheat fields
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Russia is setting Ukrainian wheat fields on fire, putting a strain on the country's grain exports. CNN's Ivan Watson reports from a farm in southern Ukraine where farmers are racing to save their crops from Russian strikes. #cnn  #News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZrZixOk1uc

From all the combat footage I've been watching I have arrived at the conclusion that Russia is intentionally destroying wheat fields with it's artillery as well.
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: guest78 on July 17, 2022, 11:36:30 am
Should Ukraine farmers plant wheat crops for next year? | Louise Callaghan
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"This is not a couple of ships of grain that we're talking about... This is a completely, incredibly enormous amount of wheat."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWBWVO_nc7A
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 19, 2022, 04:22:35 am
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Ukraine and Russia negotiators in Turkey reach deal to resume grain exports

What happens when you make deals with Turanians:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXArHcrDqGg

The world must re-learn the hard way what the ancient victims of Turanians had already learned thousands of years ago.
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 20, 2022, 09:08:04 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-russia-not-interfere-ukrainian-212008694.html

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Russia will not hinder the export of Ukrainian grain in exchange for the lifting of sanctions related to the supply of Russian grain.

If you trust Russia, you are a sucker. More people understand this now:

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Is that like “we won’t attack that building” and then they attack it. I would not believe one word out of Putins mouth

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Putin's word on anything is worthless.

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Don't trust Russian at all, they all lie!

The only reliable way to secure grain supply is to drive Russian troops so far away from the Black Sea that they could not hinder exports even if they wanted to:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/war/msg14640/#msg14640
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 23, 2022, 08:23:25 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uq2DeZ5k_4

See?

https://us.yahoo.com/news/russia-ukraine-trade-missile-strikes-094121363.html

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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa just hours after Moscow and Kyiv signed deals to allow grain exports to resume from there. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry denounced Saturday's airstrikes as a “spit in the face” to Turkey and the United Nations, which brokered the agreements.
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“It took less than 24 hours for Russia to launch a missile attack on Odesa’s port, breaking its promises and undermining its commitments before the U.N. and Turkey under the Istanbul agreement,” Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said. “In case of non-fulfillment, Russia will bear full responsibility for a global food crisis.”
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Nikolenko described the missile strike on the 150th day of Russia’s war in Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin's “spit in the face of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who made great efforts to reach agreement.”
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Andriy Yermak, said on Twitter that the Odesa strike, coming so soon after the endorsement of the Black Sea deal, illustrated "the Russian diplomatic dichotomy.”

U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink denounced the strike on Odesa's port as “outrageous.”

“The Kremlin continues to weaponize food,” she tweeted. “Russia must be held to account.”

Does this mean NATO will finally join the war against Russia? If not, why not?
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 28, 2022, 11:32:04 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/moscow-shattered-two-illusions-one-110400451.html

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In exchange for ending the Russian blockade on Ukraine’s grain exports, the Kremlin received assurances that Western sanctions did not apply to fertilizer, opening the way to export sales.

The deal was aimed at avoiding food shortages—if not full-on famine—in Africa, the Arab world, and across much of Asia.

But this is the first illusion: For months, Moscow’s blockade has been designed, among other things, to produce pain in the Global South and raise pressure on the West to force Ukraine into an unsatisfactory peace with Russia.
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The July 22 agreements took the UN and Turkey weeks to negotiate, but there was only one problem: Moscow had no reason (and probably no intention) to honor the deal. Its blockade was working. Pressure on the West was rising, and Moscow was paying no political price for the food shortage it was creating.

It was not even clear why Moscow felt the need to go through the charade of signing the agreement. Whatever the case, its missile strike on Saturday ended that charade quickly—and with it, the illusion that the food crisis had been averted.
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When it comes to the food crisis, Adm. James Stavridis, the former NATO supreme allied commander, has described how a humanitarian naval corridor could be set up almost entirely within the territorial waters of NATO littoral states in the Black Sea.

But the White House has ruled out a US-led naval convoy to ensure grain shipments. If the Biden administration is to redeem its inaction, now is the time to seriously reconsider this decision.

It is a coincidence that the Black Sea agreements were signed the same day Sullivan made his comments to explain why the White House wouldn’t send long-range artillery to Ukraine. But perhaps it is no coincidence that Moscow—seeing once more how easily it can deter Washington by waving its nuclear wand—decided to immediately break the grain-export agreement and underscore its malign intention to provoke a food crisis in the Global South.
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 01, 2022, 12:49:41 am
And again:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-pounds-ukrainian-port-putin-034403394.html

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KYIV (Reuters) - Russian missiles pounded Ukraine's port city Mykolaiv on the Black Sea, as President Vladimir Putin signed a new naval doctrine casting the United States as Russia's main rival and setting global maritime ambitions in the Black Sea and Arctic.
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Headquartered in Mykolaiv, a strategically important city that borders the mostly Russian-occupied Kherson region, Nibulon specialises in the production and export of wheat, barley and corn, and has its own fleet and shipyard.

When is NATO going to get it? The only way to stop this is to capture enough Russian territory that these targets are out of range of Russian missiles.
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 29, 2022, 06:51:25 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjZbnRcdGg

This will keep happening whenever Russia wants it to happen until Russian access to the Black Sea (including Azov) is cut off entirely. This requires capturing not only Crimea but also the purple area:

(https://www.worldatlas.com/r/w768/upload/df/cc/d4/black-sea-map.png)
Title: Food banks struggling with unprecedented demand during holidays
Post by: guest78 on December 18, 2022, 11:07:22 pm
Food banks struggling with unprecedented demand during holidays
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Food banks in Canada say they're struggling to keep up with an unprecedented demand they say they can’t sustain long-term, prompting some advocates to call for for systemic changes to address poverty and food insecurity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DFllaq0wi8
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 09, 2023, 02:30:46 am
And again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BgULUhdA1M

The only true solution is still the same one as posted repeatedly earlier in this topic.
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 26, 2023, 03:31:41 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92OxegmJZ9U
Title: Re: Duginism
Post by: guest98 on July 14, 2023, 03:56:27 pm
Putin threatens to withdraw from the Black Sea grain deal unless some sanctions are lifted
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening to walk away from the Black Sea grain deal unless some sanctions are lifted. The year-long deal has guaranteed safe shipping routes and enabled Ukraine to export grain to the world. With the deal set to expire on Monday, Putin is using the pressure to demand western countries end blockages on some Russian exports and payments.
https://youtu.be/P_J3C8EDY_E
Title: Re: Duginism
Post by: guest98 on July 17, 2023, 03:08:29 pm
https://globalnews.ca/news/9836864/black-sea-grain-deal-impacts/

Russia is letting the Black Sea grain deal die. Who will feel it most?

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Now, the world has entered yet another period of uncertainty and although Canada and the U.S. are not among the top receivers of grain shipments from the Black Sea, experts are calling for Canadians to keep a close watch on how markets react.

On Monday, Russia withdrew from the grain deal, under which it allowed the passage of ships from Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea carrying food grain shipments.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia would suspend the Black Sea Grain Initiative until its demands to get its own food and fertilizer to the world are met. While Russia has complained that restrictions on shipping and insurance have hampered its agricultural exports, it has shipped record amounts of wheat.

What will the impact be?

While the impact is expected to be felt in several developing countries in Africa and western Asia, United Nations Black Sea Initiative Joint Coordination Centre data shows that food shipments from the Black Sea were meant for destinations across the world.

The implications will be felt all over the world, and an Oxfam Canada spokesperson told Global News they were concerned about the ripple effects the suspension of the deal could have on food prices, food donation drives and inequity in Canada.

Experts believe that the end of the Black Sea grain deal will make global hunger significantly worse.


Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 17, 2023, 04:51:24 pm
As I said earlier:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/why-war-in-ukraine-is-causing-apocalyptic-famine/msg16226/#msg16226

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This will keep happening whenever Russia wants it to happen until Russian access to the Black Sea (including Azov) is cut off entirely.

How much longer must we wait, and how many more people have to starve, before NATO finally gets it?
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: guest98 on July 18, 2023, 03:05:41 pm
https://globalnews.ca/news/9839469/russia-black-sea-grain-deal-withdrawal/

Russia’s Black Sea grain deal exit is ‘de facto blockade,’ Canada says

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A day after the Russian government withdrew from an agreement that allowed for the use of Ukrainian ports for grain shipments, Canada has called on Moscow to resume its participation in the Black Sea grain deal to avoid “further shocks to global food systems.”

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly and International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan issued a joint statement on Tuesday, saying Russia’s withdrawal from the agreement was a “de facto blockade.”

“This reimposes a de facto blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, significantly affecting global food exports as well as security in the Black Sea.

“Canada calls on the Russian Federation to immediately renew its participation in the agreement to avoid any further shocks to global food systems already strained by its war of aggression against Ukraine.”

The Canadian government said the Black Sea deal had managed to prevent 100 million people worldwide from falling into extreme poverty.

“(Russia’s withdrawal) also impedes the efforts of the World Food Programme, which sourced more than half of its total wheat supply from Ukraine in 2022, relieving hunger in hard-hit areas such as Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa and Yemen,” the government said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday evening that the deal must continue and could operate without Russian participation.


Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: guest98 on July 19, 2023, 03:16:44 pm

It's OK for food destruction to be Russian

Ukraine says Russia targeting grain sites after deal exit
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Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of deliberately striking its Black Sea grain facilities -- and destroying tonnes of food -- since Moscow quit an export deal meant to stave off a global crisis.
https://youtu.be/PYadNr4bnLE
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 20, 2023, 11:14:14 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lsc_iSMoKw
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: guest98 on July 24, 2023, 02:33:47 pm
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/un-chief-urges-russia-return-black-sea-deal-2023-07-24/

UN chief urges Russia to return to Black Sea deal

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Russia on Monday to return to a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain in line with a proposal he made to President Vladimir Putin.

"With the termination of the Black Sea Initiative, the most vulnerable will pay the highest price," Guterres told the U.N. Food Systems summit in Rome on Monday. "When food prices rise, everybody pays for it."

Since Russia quit the deal and began attacking Ukrainian food-exporting ports on the Black Sea and Danube river, global wheat and corn futures have risen sharply.

"This is especially devastating for vulnerable countries struggling to feed their people," Guterres said.

"I call on the Russian Federation to return to the implementation of the Black Sea Initiative, in line with my latest proposal," Guterres said. "I urge the global community to stand united for effective solutions in this essential effort."

"I remain committed to facilitating the unimpeded access to global markets for food products and fertilizers from both Ukraine and the Russian Federation, and to deliver the food security that every person deserves," Guterres said on Monday.



Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: guest98 on August 02, 2023, 03:10:26 pm
https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/02/ukraine-war-ukrainian-grain-facilities-targeted-belarus-violates-polish-airspace

Ukraine war: Ukrainian grain facilities attacked, Russian naval drills in Baltic Sea, Black Sea deal

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Attacks on Ukrainian grain facilities

Russian drones yesterday targeted grain infrastructure in southern Ukraine close to the border of NATO member Romania, according to the Ukrainian military.

Iranian-made "Shahed" (Martyr) drones, launched from the Black Sea, hit the Odesa region at dawn, causing a huge fire at export facilities and damaging a grain elevator. A grain silo was also reportedly hit.

Russian forces have repeatedly battered Ukraine's Black Sea and river port infrastructure in recent weeks, especially the city of Odesa. Vital supplies of Ukrainian grain are exported from the area to the rest of the world.

These bombardments began in July after Moscow terminated a deal – brokered by the UN and Turkey – which allowed Ukraine to export 33 million tons of cereals despite the Russian invasion.

A blockade has now been reinstated and both sides have warned they will attack ships heading to enemy ports.

River ports in the Odesa region bordering Romania have become the main alternative exit route for Ukrainian agricultural products since Russia torpedoed the deal.

But these sites have also become targets. In July, a river port in Reni was attacked by Russian drones, while one was hit on the Danube today.

Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 17, 2023, 04:09:06 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJY_v8ZOab4
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 16, 2023, 09:05:59 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-700-million-people-dont-050628729.html

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More than 700 million people don't know when — or if — they will eat again, UN food chief says
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because of the lack of funding, the agency has been forced to cut food rations for millions of people, and “more cuts are on the way.”

“We are now living with a series of concurrent and long-term crises that will continue to fuel global humanitarian needs,” she said. “This is the humanitarian community’s new reality — our new normal — and we will be dealing with the fallout for years to come.”
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the agency estimates that nearly 47 million people in over 50 countries are just one step from famine — and a staggering 45 million children under the age of five are now estimated to suffer from acute malnutrition.

According to WFP estimates from 79 countries where the Rome-based agency operates, up to 783 million people — one in 10 of the world’s population — still go to bed hungry every night. More than 345 million people are facing high levels of food insecurity this year, an increase of almost 200 million people from early 2021 before the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency said.

At the root of the soaring numbers, WFP said, is “a deadly combination of conflict, economic shocks, climate extremes and soaring fertilizer prices.”

The economic fallout from the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have pushed food prices out of the reach of millions of people across the world at the same time that high fertilizer prices have caused falling production of maize, rice, soybeans and wheat, the agency said.

Should these 700 million be the ones dying? If only a fraction of this number of Westerners could die instead, there would be enough food for this 700 million.

(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340833385/figure/fig1/AS:883106634539019@1587560437650/Daily-average-per-capita-food-consumption-kcal-person-compiled-on-FAO-data-2018.ppm)
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: Z on September 19, 2023, 05:54:18 pm
Russia is weaponizing food shortages, Zelenskiy tells UN
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tells the UN General Assembly that Russia is manipulating global food shortages, seeking international recognition of ownership of land it seized from Kyiv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Ev4ETORYk
Title: Re: Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine
Post by: Poland on September 21, 2023, 11:32:30 am
Why is Ukraine Suing its European Allies? | Vantage with Palki Sharma
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Why is Ukraine Suing its European Allies? | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Ukraine has filed a lawsuit against Poland, Hungary and Slovakia at the World Trade Organisation.

The move follows the decision by Ukraine's neighbours to ban food imports from Kyiv.

Will the lawsuit cool Poland's support for Ukraine's war effort? Palki Sharma tells you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y46KxoUa31Q

See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/re-duginism-1134/?message=22262