OPINIONISTA: Putin uses food as a weapon of war

I want to start our conversation this week by reminding everyone that any agreement with Russia is not worth the paper it’s printed on. Any deals with Russia are absolutely nonsensical and useless. Period.

Last week Vladimir Putin threatened the grain deal in his aggressive speech during the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum held in Russia. Seems all the “backward winning” of Russia’s military in Ukraine resulted in their willingness to renew their naval blockade in the Black Sea and continue threatening the African continent with a food crisis.

So, when you read or hear: “Russian president says he wants to revise the agreement to allow export of Ukrainian grain from the Black Sea”, that means Russia is ready to starve the most vulnerable countries by blocking grain exports and destroying Ukrainian crops. First, Russia is the ONLY country now trying to destroy the UN-brokered agreement for maritime grain exports from Ukraine. They are the ONLY country that is doing everything they can to create famine. They’ve already killed 50,000 of their soldiers in Ukraine, they lied to their own army telling them we will be greeting them with flowers, and just sent them to be burnt alive.

It’s war! One intervention escalates to the next until someone succumbs. With the exception of the exclusion in the Law of Armed Conflict, nothing else is off limits. Stand & fight or leave & save yourself.

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