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Looks fake. I can't imagine an FSB official caring about world hunger, especially as the prime concern.
by thriftwy 5y ago
Looks fake. I can't imagine an FSB official caring about world hunger, especially as the prime concern.
- phatfish 5y agoIt reads like a lore-dump pickup in a video game. The sort of thing you would find in plain sight in Call of Duty or similar. Maybe COD is more realistic than i thought...
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- jnwatson 5y agoEven if the FSB are universally psychopaths (which they aren’t), global famine is a destabilizing force that can be leveraged.
- azalemeth 5y agoPeople in Russia are human too. A lot of those who go into "national security" type jobs start out with their heart in the right place. I can't imagine what it is like to slowly realise that, actually, you're the bad ones.
- thriftwy 5y agoIt's a matter of priorities. An FSB official will see world hunger as an opportunity, and will think of this as "so these people completely unrelated to us don't want to go hungry, what can they give us in return?" This is since during most of the contemporary history of Russia, other countries saw a lot of different opportunities here and very few people.
- user-the-name 5y ago
- Daniel_sk 5y agoUkraine is a large producer of wheat - they are the size of Afghanistan, but completely flat and covered with wheat fields.
- ur-whale 5y agoYup. And the soil is particularly fertile too: the somewhat well-known "black soil of Ukraine" [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem
- keymone 5y agochristo grozev says it's probably not according to his two fsb contacts (though they disagree with some of the author's conclusions): https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500197460626624513 https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500197460626624513
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