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Ukraine exports mostly to the Middle East and other nearby Asian/African countries. I don’t know if the US has plans to divert our wheat to those places. The o
by jesuscript 4y ago
Ukraine exports mostly to the Middle East and other nearby Asian/African countries. I don’t know if the US has plans to divert our wheat to those places.
The optics of the war seem a little staged. Gas prices down, wheat exports … up? It almost makes sense for Russia to dig in and prolong the war beyond a year to show that such optics are not sustainable by the US.
Strategically, if I were Russia, I wouldn’t even consider a ceasefire until winter passes and Europe gets hit with heating costs, just to make my point. It’s the only point of leverage left.
- fuoqi 4y ago>Ukraine exports mostly to the Middle East and other nearby Asian/African countries. In normal times. But now most of Ukrainian wheat exported by sea and probably almost all exported by ground gets hoarded by Europe without getting to the most vulnerable African countries.
- labster 4y agoOr Europe will import less grain by sea and boats from the US will go to other ports. Fuel is being stockpiled by Europe, but not other commodities right now.
- merry_flame 4y agoGood times for said countries to start weaning themselves off imported cereals and go back to their own traditional crops. I can understand how Egypt got into the mess of being so dependent on cheap foreign wheat, but Nigeria and Indonesia?