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> "... a Russian naval blockade has prevented past harvests from reaching their destinations. The loss of this output has caused already high grain prices to su

> "... a Russian naval blockade has prevented past harvests from reaching their destinations. The loss of this output has caused already high grain prices to surge. The World Food Programme warns that 47m people are at risk of hunger as a result." I understand that the point of the article is about reallocating and tightening up the belts of consumption, so to speak. However, how about exerting more pressure onto the aggressor which russia openly is? The world needs to recognize russia's actions as deliberate and premeditated steps to cause the collapses in food supply chains. This is not opportunistic, but rather a calculated policy, just as it is with gas and oil supply. It's not about the cattle, it's about the "humans" in charge of the kremlin!

roenxi 4y ago
How will 'exerting more pressure' help? We may already be past the point where there is a good solution but the best approach so far would be de-escalation, negotiation and cooperation in an attempt to avoid all this. Every attempt to exert pressure has put the west in a less favourable position. More pressure has built an energy crisis in Europe; rivals in Asia awash with cheap gas and contributed to a global food shortage. This was a series of own-goals. The US should have taken a few deep breaths over the last few years and dialled back the anti-Russia sentiment rather than burning relations with Russia in an attempt to inconvenience Trump. Unless the plan is to trigger World War III the West's strategies can only be said to be failing. This could have been a 2nd Iraq invasion instead of becoming the mega-crisis that is unfolding.
- zoomablemind 4y ago
  >...Every attempt to exert pressure has put the west in a less favourable position. There's a largest war started by russia (8 years ago!) and going on in the middle of Europe with a threat of use of nuclear weapons. As evident by now, russia is uncapable of maintaining any trustworthy agreements with any other nation, let alone its neighbors. It openly laughs at any civilized rule of law principles and considers this a weakness. It may not seem that way on a distance, but this war is against the West, against its values, its societies, and its economies. The whole world already feels the blows. Russia is increasingly acting as a rabid dog. The 'anti-russian sentiment' is a product of its own making, not for the first time in its imperial history. How does one deal with a rabid dog that brought itself to your yard? Asking the dog to deescalate? Abandoning your yard? Letting the dog into the house? This dog is driven by a violent agony and the violence will eventually tear it apart. But meanwhile someone needs to fend it off and contain. Ukraine so far is fending the rabid russia with its own flesh and blood. The war is on. Can the world exert more pressure? Not dragging feet with delivering the offered weapons. Not diluting the sanctions. Not agreeing to buy the stolen grains or harboring the russian assets. Consolidating and be decisive against the aggressor instead of making this Yankees' business or, worse, let the rabies take over Ukraine...
  - jessaustin 4y ago
    Parent made a valid point. Why are you on about rabid dog analogies? Please don't urge more aggressive economic measures until you can explain why the existing ones haven't worked at all. [0] It's grimly amusing that you think the thing that happened in 2014 was that Russia started a war. [1] [0] https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&to=USD https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&to=USD [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKcmNGvaDUs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKcmNGvaDUs

roenxi 4y ago

How will 'exerting more pressure' help? We may already be past the point where there is a good solution but the best approach so far would be de-escalation, negotiation and cooperation in an attempt to avoid all this. Every attempt to exert pressure has put the west in a less favourable position. More pressure has built an energy crisis in Europe; rivals in Asia awash with cheap gas and contributed to a global food shortage. This was a series of own-goals. The US should have taken a few deep breaths over the last few years and dialled back the anti-Russia sentiment rather than burning relations with Russia in an attempt to inconvenience Trump. Unless the plan is to trigger World War III the West's strategies can only be said to be failing. This could have been a 2nd Iraq invasion instead of becoming the mega-crisis that is unfolding.

zoomablemind 4y ago
>...Every attempt to exert pressure has put the west in a less favourable position. There's a largest war started by russia (8 years ago!) and going on in the middle of Europe with a threat of use of nuclear weapons. As evident by now, russia is uncapable of maintaining any trustworthy agreements with any other nation, let alone its neighbors. It openly laughs at any civilized rule of law principles and considers this a weakness. It may not seem that way on a distance, but this war is against the West, against its values, its societies, and its economies. The whole world already feels the blows. Russia is increasingly acting as a rabid dog. The 'anti-russian sentiment' is a product of its own making, not for the first time in its imperial history. How does one deal with a rabid dog that brought itself to your yard? Asking the dog to deescalate? Abandoning your yard? Letting the dog into the house? This dog is driven by a violent agony and the violence will eventually tear it apart. But meanwhile someone needs to fend it off and contain. Ukraine so far is fending the rabid russia with its own flesh and blood. The war is on. Can the world exert more pressure? Not dragging feet with delivering the offered weapons. Not diluting the sanctions. Not agreeing to buy the stolen grains or harboring the russian assets. Consolidating and be decisive against the aggressor instead of making this Yankees' business or, worse, let the rabies take over Ukraine...
- jessaustin 4y ago
  Parent made a valid point. Why are you on about rabid dog analogies? Please don't urge more aggressive economic measures until you can explain why the existing ones haven't worked at all. [0] It's grimly amusing that you think the thing that happened in 2014 was that Russia started a war. [1] [0] https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&to=USD https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&to=USD [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKcmNGvaDUs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKcmNGvaDUs