> Starvation I think the carrot Russia wants is cash. Starvation in Russia requires freakish levels of malicious incompetence (I know it has happened...) Mo

> Starvation I think the carrot Russia wants is cash. Starvation in Russia requires freakish levels of malicious incompetence (I know it has happened...) Mollisols are the best farming soil there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_science#/media/File:Global_soils_map_USDA.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_science#/media/File:Globa... This soil map may also offer some insight into why Russia wants to take Ukraine so badly. That's some of the best farmland in the world.