Rossticus said:
Ships full of grain being blockaded by the Russian navy and not allowed to leave port and Russians destroying grain stores. Russians have sunk several merchant ships.
Grain could get to other countries but Russia is deliver preventing it and starving people with no direct connection to this war in order to increase tension, pressure, and chaos. They know what they're doing.
Currently, over 30000 people a day starve around the globe but mostly n Africa. That number will increase substantially over the next few months.
The US public interest for Ukraine is starting to fade, excluding left leaning CNN but accordingly, they are reporting Russia is settling into a long term war for eastern Ukraine, as a few of us have been saying all along. Unfortunately, Russia is not depleted and has the means to dig in for years. Wish it wasn't true ain't going to change a thing.
My source for the mindset of Ukraine and Russia is someone I work with, whose MIL lives n eastern Ukraine and has extensive travels there, also a couple of officers in the Israeli army who from day one has been stating target for Russia is eastern Ukraine. Fertile farmlands with the language being mostly Russia and mineral rich. I have no personal knowledge of Ukraine or Russia, only what I read. I have never been n combat or n a large scale military operation. Bombed out cities are heartbreaking to watch but not unexpected, WWII wasn't that long ago.
Yes, Russia does know what they are doing with their wheat, they don't fight fair and we could lose the narrative if Russia starves the third world, it will become a racial problem for us, split us even more than we are. IMO
What I want to happen is irrelevant, I cant wish it different. This is my view what is going on. I am a nobody in all of this, not very politically sensitive and lacking situation awareness as I think this is a board to discuss different opinions therefore I will ignore the emotional posters.
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