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> If Europe will not stop a war in Ukraine in coming 2-3 weeks… then doubling energy prices will look like a funny joke. That's why I've been wondering if behi
by generalizations 5y ago
> If Europe will not stop a war in Ukraine in coming 2-3 weeks… then doubling energy prices will look like a funny joke.
That's why I've been wondering if behind all this 'fog of war', Russia is planning to get what they want by creating a food shortage in Europe. Just toss a bunch of disposable soldiers and old equipment into the country, create chaos, and wait. Russia might survive the sanctions against it longer and better than Europe survives without Ukrainian wheat.
It sure sounds like Europe has a lot less leverage than Putin and might have to capitulate just to keep their people fed.
- hypertele-Xii 5y ago"The main destination of Wheat exports from Ukraine are: Egypt ($685M), Indonesia ($603M), Philippines ($242M), Turkey ($207M), and Tunisia ($196M)." [1] None of these are European countries importing wheat from Ukraine. Most of my food imports come from Italy. I buy local also. Finland grows wheat, among other crops. Saw corn fields cycling cross country couple years back. [1] https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/wheat/reporter/ukr https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/wheat/reporte...
- generalizations 5y agoMy comment is based on what the parent said. > My granny was a statistician during Soviet times. She knows a lot about food supply chain on Europe. It didn’t change a lot during last decades. Now every day during our daily call she talks about bread and coming starvation. As article mentions wheat an fertilizers come from this conflict area.