anywhere knew this was the plan?
Inflation is just going to take care of itself etc?
What reality are these people living in?
Ukraine grain farmers devastated by Russia’s Black Sea blockade
"But then one week passed — and then a month and then four months — with Ukraine’s main ports still blockaded by Russia’s fleet. Not only was he missing the money from his last yield but a new crop was nearly ready to send to market, with no way to profitably move it. And future crops were uncertain.
“If we don’t sell this grain now and don’t cover our expenses, tomorrow we simply won’t be able to plant,” he said.
"Farmers across Ukraine are increasingly feeling the financial strain of Russia’s Black Sea blockade, and the sector’s economic collapse is affecting food security across the world. Ukraine accounted for 10 percent of global wheat exports in 2021, according to the United Nations."
"But with no money coming in, they might not be able to harvest this fall — threatening to dramatically slash the output of one of the world’s largest grain producers for years to come."
(But these brainiac economist keep trying to tell us that inflation is going to take care of itself...yeah...okay...right...sure...It's the whole purpose of the invasion, creating supply shocks to commodity markets, oil, gas, food, minerals such as nickel, palladium etc such that Western Central Banks just cant do anything about it. We get involved to deep and here comes the Hypersonic missiles we have no defense for...and we know it and were trying to not let the word get out to much...opps)
"More problematic is that Western countries helping Ukraine to move grain will soon have their hands full with their own harvests. Some grain has been loaded onto train cars going west, but the European Union and Ukraine use different sizes of track, so the grain must be transferred from one car to another at the border — another time-consuming and expensive task."
"...Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said Russia is trying to create another Holodomor, on a global scale — a reference to the famine of the 1930s, when Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union."
“They want the international community to take off some of the sanctions and then the grain can get out. So they’re holding people all over the world hostage basically. This is terrorism.”
“Even after all of our efforts, we understand that we can only export about 20 percent of what we need to,” Kubrakov added.
?Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi said he expects Ukraine to have about 60 million tons of grain to export this year, including some of last year’s harvest that hasn’t been moved yet. But Ukraine is currently exporting 2 million tons of grain a month — only about a third the amount of previous years."
“We just need to destroy the entire Russian fleet and then everything will be fine,” he said. “Long-range rocket systems will be cheaper than solving these logistics issues.”
(But were not sending the Ukrainians whet they need. Why?
Thats why.)
"But with Onishchuk still waiting for his last shipment to leave the Mykolaiv port, he’s had to confront how much longer he can afford to wait and whether his business of 17 years might be doomed. He won’t be selling this latest harvest if the price remains so low. Will he plant in the fall?
“I’ll let you know,” he said. “I still have hope. If I didn’t have hope, I would have fled the country.”
Now factor in reduced crop yields this year in the US due to extreme weather caused by climate change and don't forget about increased diesel prices (combines, tractors, trucks for transporting, etc) and you might be starting to get an idea of what were faced with.
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