Zelenskyy Warns Of Coming Food Crisis – 10 Weeks Away

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May 22, 2022
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“There will be a crisis in the world,” warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy while speaking recently of a coming food shortage that experts predict will be experienced worldwide as a result of the prolonged conflict in Ukraine. He added that, even with the war’s end, shortages would hit the world within 10 weeks.

The leader of the war-torn country stated that if they do not regain control of their southern ports, Ukraine — a nation known as the “breadbasket of Europe” — would be unable to export the vast amount of food that many in the world depend on.

Russia is currently blockading the Black Sea, presumably due to large weapons shipments that have been going to Ukraine and sanctions levied against the country by Western nations and organizations, with much of Ukraine’s food exports requiring the body of water to reach foreign ports. 

Russian officials have warned that their blockade is only a contributing factor to the coming crisis. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko warned that sanctions imposed by the West have halted exports of fertilizer, with Russia being the world’s top exporter of fertilizer worldwide. This means that Western sanctions will affect crop yields in the United States and around the world, directly affecting our own citizens’ ability to purchase affordable food.

As many have warned, the results of prolonging of the conflict in Ukraine will have lasting and tragic effects throughout the globe. And the recently passed $40 billion aid package, supplied to the notoriously corrupt government in the Eastern European nation, will all but guarantee that the war will, in fact, be prolonged by the U.S. and our partners, despite the destructive consequences this will have on our own people.

The Kremlin has made attempts to resolve the situation diplomatically, offering to lift the blockade in return for relief from sanctions that — though the effects have been exaggerated — have caused significant problems in the country. The lifting of sanctions would also allow Russia to export the food and materials, including fertilizer to grow food with, needed across the globe to maintain food supply.

So far, however, the Biden administration and its NATO allies have done little to resolve the coming crisis that will spread great suffering across the world.

And with heavier-handed tactics by Western governments to control the flow of information, under the guise of “ defending from disinformation,” it seems that they may be acutely aware of the problems to come, and are seeking to “monitor” and disrupt communications between dissatisfied citizens.

Big League Politics has described the high risk of future food insecurity here in the U.S. as a result of the Ukraine conflict in recent reporting:

Asked about warnings of food shortages and empty grocery shelves, Tester [Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT)] said, “we’ve got our challenges out there with the drought west of the Mississippi and with the situation with Ukraine, and Russia attacking that country that supplies the world, particularly the Middle East and North Africa, with a lot of food. …

… Garrett prefaced the interview by citing a recent warning by President of the National Black Farmers Association John Boyd, which sounds the alarm on serious challenges facing the nation’s food supply. The warning cited significant cost increases for fertilizer, seeds and fuel, along with many supply chain issues being experienced in various industries.

Boyd has predicted that Americans will see 25% to 40% increases in their purchases at the grocery store.

While Zelenskyy warns of food shortages and Putin warns of an escalated, possibly nuclear, war, it seems certain that the costs of the conflict in Ukraine will be heavy for people across the world.

The war will not just affect people “over there.” Americans and their partners across the world may experience significant hardships as a result of this war — a war U.S. officials won’t admit that we are already in. And it is important that the people who will suffer these hardships consider the very real pain that may be felt over the regime’s push to weaponize Ukraine against Russia.

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