Ekaterina Blunova – Samizdat via Aletho News June 24, 2022
Russia’s special operation in Ukraine may cause a two-year global food crisis even if the standoff ends tomorrow, The Telegraph claims, citing Western officials. They insist that exporting grain “trapped” in Ukraine is the remedy, while remaining mute about West’s sanctions paralyzing larger food exports from Russia to third-world countries.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier this year. Click to enlarge
“We are very clear that this grain crisis is urgent, that it needs to be solved within the next month otherwise we could see devastating consequences,” UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told the press on June 23.
The ongoing conflict has disrupted production, “causing global food prices to soar to record levels,” claims The Telegraph. In particular, wheat prices increased to an average of 56.2% in May, 2022 above their value last year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The newspaper’s source says that the British officials see current efforts to move Ukrainian grain over land and road as “far below” what is needed. They insist that the commodity needs to be exported by sea, accusing Russia of blocking Ukraine’s food supplies from leaving Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. According to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Moscow was trying to hold the world “ransom.”
The newspaper also cites “newly declassified US intelligence” claiming that the Russian navy “has been given orders to lay mines” in Odessa and Ochakov and “mined” the Dnieper River “as part of its blockade of Ukrainian grain exports.” According to BoJo, the UK is helping Ukraine “at a technical level to help demine Odessa.”
Western Press Remain Mute About Russia’s Black Sea Corridors
Russia denounced the US and the UK claims, stressing that the Ukrainian military mined their own ports during the retreat. Furthermore, Ukraine continues to stampede Russo-Turkish efforts to demine the area and ensure the safe passage of ships from the country’s territorial waters.
On June 2, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya made it clear that Russia is ready to provide safe corridors for Ukrainian ships carrying 20 million tons of grain if Kiev demines the water area surrounding its ports.
In late May, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Russian Navy had created safe zones in the Black and Azov Seas for ships leaving Ukraine along humanitarian corridors. The corridors with a length of 139 miles and 3 miles wide are operating daily from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm (GMT+3) in the Black Sea for vessels stationed in the ports of Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhny.
Nevertheless, the Kiev authorities “continue to do everything possible to evade interaction with representatives of foreign states and ship-owning companies in resolving the issue of ensuring the safe exit of blocked ships,” according to the MoD.
Turkey, which has worked with Russia in demining the Black Sea and providing safe passage to vessels, echoes Moscow’s concerns. Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu told Anadolu Agency last month that the two major obstacles hindering grain exports are mines placed by the Ukrainian military in the Odessa water area as well as Western sanctions slapped on Russian ships in terms of insurance and the provision of services at international ports.
Ukraine’s Role in Food Crisis Largely Overestimated
The Western press is shying away from discussing how anti-Russian sanctions, imposed on the country’s trade, finance, transportation and crucial agricultural commodities have backfired on the global food market sending prices high.
Senegalese President and African Union chief Macky Sall raised the alarm earlier this month over Western restrictions preventing Russia’s grain and fertilizers exports to Africa.
“Sanctions against Russia have aggravated the situation with the supply of grains and fertilizers to African countries. We no longer have access to them, and this poses a serious threat to food security on the continent,” Sall warned on 3 June during an official visit to Russia.
Together Ukraine and Russia produce about a third of the wheat traded in global markets, according to the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Still, Russia is the world’s largest exporter of wheat, providing more than 17% of all wheat sold in the global market while Ukraine’s share amounts to roughly 10%.
For comparison’s sake, Russia exported 44.64 million tons of wheat in 2018, while Ukraine provided the global market with 16.91 tons of the commodity the same year, according to FAO.
Ukraine’s role as a food commodity exporter is deliberately overestimated by the West, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a June interview with Rossiya-1.
“The world produces about 800 million tons of grain and wheat per year. Now we are told that Ukraine is ready to export 20 million tons. 20 million tons compared to the 800 million tons the world makes is 2.5% of that figure. But if we proceed from the fact that wheat makes up only 20% of the total food supply (and this is the reality, these are not our figures but those of the UN) this means that these 20 million tons of Ukrainian wheat make up 0.5 percent,” the Russian president told the broadcaster.
Putin dismissed claims that Russia was supposedly trying to block the export of Ukrainian grain, calling the allegations a “bluff.” The Russian president stressed there were no obstacles to the export of grain from Ukraine. He stressed that ships carrying wheat could enter the Black Sea any time if Kiev clears ports of mines. World wheat prices have fallen by 10% after Putin signaled Russia’s readiness to ensure the transport of grain from Ukrainian ports.
G7 & NATO to Double Down on Further Isolating Russia
While the British government continues to castigate Russia’s special operation for the unfolding global food crisis, the British prime minister is calling for Europe to step up military aid to Ukraine.
In particular, BoJo came up with a new plan offering Ukraine a training campaign for its military personnel and urging Western leaders to provide “constant funding and technical help” to Ukraine to ensure Kiev’s longstanding resistance to Russia.
BoJo is expected to push France and Germany to strengthen their support for Ukraine during the G7 summit next week, “as he fears that [Ukrainian President] Volodymyr Zelensky could be bounced into agreeing a ‘s***y’ peace deal [with Russia],” according to the Telegraph.
For its part, Reuters projects that next week G7 and NATO leaders will work to “increase pressure” on Russia over its special operation in Ukraine, while seeking to further isolate the country from the global economy.
Censorship in Britain is total. It’s ironic – the British always like to boast how ‘free’ they are, yet they are the most brainwashed and controlled people in the world. They literally know nothing.
They laughed at pictures of Soviet citizens queuing for food, yet now their shops are gradually emptying – and it’s their own government doing it to them.
Strange! I thought the shops were empty because everybody has gone to Glastonbury and can’t get home due to the railway union having gone on strike.
Nobody is queuing for food dummy! I went up town yesterday and everything was New Normal and nobody at all was wearing a mask.
Anonymous – In Britain we are far less brainwashed compared to 100 years ago, and freedom is more a point of not now being executed for stealing some food or having to let your landlords have your wife on your wedding day. Decades ago in school we were taught about the French revolution but no mention of Wat Tyler in 1381. You fail to see that most of this planet has been saturated in brainwashing and it’s up to those of us who have an immunity to it to snap the rest out of their hypnotic state. also I think you will find the Americans are the one’s who shout about the land of the free, now there’s some brainwashing for you.
Food started disappearing off the shelves and it was blamed on panic buying, when in reality less food was being put on sale leaving shelves empty quicker.
Here’s an observation I made a couple of years ago. I always look at the sell buy dates on food, I noticed that a pack of bread wraps that always had between two and three weeks shelf life suddenly dropped to two to three days. So far from panic buyers emptying shelves foods have been held back. Rationing of selected food products started before the Russia / Ukraine conflict using viruses as the fake excuse, the weather has used as an excuse, then viruses and now moving on to blaming war. Have you seen how quick fresh veg starts to decompose these days? The older the food the more nutrient decomposition has occured sometimes to a near toxic level. Hitting the food supply is text book war strategy to weaken a nations health and bodily defenses, the tweak this time round is it’s not to weaken us against an invading army of soldiers but to weaken us against an onslaught of viruses.
we truthseeker know since years
that all was already planed years in
advance with big reset, currency break
down, invader flooding, poisoning to
diminish worldpopulation + 3.worldwar.
same as 9.11. + covid poison vaccines
were already planed + developed decades
before .
only stupid domesticated halfanimals
dont know !
I recently mentioned to a THICK Brit – to whom I’m unfortunately closely related – that he might want to “think” about getting in some extra food for is family “just in case”…
I purposely soft-pedalled my “food crisis” fears since he invariaby follows the (((script))) and ANYTHING I say ouside of it is met wih disdain… and, quite often, downright hostility.
He assured me that although he’d noticed a few shelves in Tesco’s that didnt seem to be quite as well stocked as usual.. it was just something to do with a shortage of truckers due to Covid/Brexit … a situation that the authorities had firmly under control.
When I demurred “Could it possibly have someting to do with Ukraine?”, I was assured that there was absolutely no connection… and even if there was “that thug Putin would soon be gone once NATO gears up”.
THIS is the level of prideful cluelessness and impenetrable wilful ignorance of your typical utterly brainwashed THICK F’kin Brit.
As a side note:
Any country that has such an insufferable inconsequential nitwit as that trollop Truss parading around as “Foreign Secretary” is NOT to be taken seriously… and cannot therfore “be long for this world”
@ PETER PETHERINGTON
same kind of ignorant middleold
i have here . they are very easy upset
same as pigs grunt if you disturb them
in their slumber . i call them babbitts
(with low temper) . i dont disturb them.
only some younger working men
open their ears + mind . the young
are to much infested by Frankfurt School
poison .
There is a broad agreement on this site about the Brits being thick. But I do not think that there are more thick Brits than thickos in other national groups. Rather, I think that the Brit lives with the conviction that only he and the Americans are to be taken seriously. All other people are ‘wogs’ of one kind or another, ‘from Calais to Singapore’; or they are Australians, out of sight and out of mind in ‘the arsehole of the Empire’.
And I’m sure it is this strange parochial mentality that leaves the Brits pretty much uninterested in what is happening ‘on the Continent’, presently in Ukraine. That is why they see nothing untoward in the fact that their British MSM were incredibly uniform in spreading the disinformation that Ukraine is winning the war.
Now (since no more than two days ago!) that their MSN have changed tack and are admitting that Ukraine is losing bigtime, no Brit eyebrows are raised. Nobody even asks how this happened. And that is because no-one is particularly interested to know.
On the other hand, the Brits are very opinionated on the subject of BoJo’s likelihood of survival as PM. And there is the monarchy and its backers and detractors, Scottish devolution, immigrants … and little else.
BTW: When I say ‘Brits’, I have in mind the poorly educated indigenous ones (the majority). So do they. And this is not racisim; this is just ‘how it is’. The rest is political correctness to which it is polite to pay lip service. The upshot is a huge stratum of geo-political naivety in Britain.
@Peter Petherington: ‘Any country that has such an insufferable inconsequential nitwit as that trollop Truss parading around as “Foreign Secretary”…’. 🙂
I think she is in her office as a strategic occupier of it: It would not do to have an intelligent occupier of that office when there is no interest from the present Legislature in putting up British foreign policy for international-forum discussion.
Spot on @ gaz…I also noticed the use by dates have decreased to a couple of days. I get my stuff delivered as my mobility is not good, and my bread can start turning mouldy after four days and that is with careful storing. The 2020 toilet tissue crisis was also manufactured.
@SJ
re “When I say ‘Brits’, I have in mind the poorly educated indigenous ones”
And when I say “THICK Brits” I’m referring to the WHOLE spectrum… from the bums to the toffs… from the low-life morons all the way up to even BIGGER morons like that idiot Gen Sanders – who seems to think his pathetic Dads Army can take on Russia.. and doesnt mind blowing up the world.. to NOT prove his point!
And it doesnt stop there! ALL of the pedo-homo pervert THICK Brit (((Establishment))) – that’s already instigated TWO World Wars and is now angling for a third – HAS TO GO! PERIOD!!!
@Sophie Johnson
btw “Sophie”… give my regards to Lasha …and Sister Monica as well!
Hope they’re both doing well.. and are saying their Rosaries in these troubled times
🙂
Peter Petherington: ‘And when I say “THICK Brits” I’m referring to the WHOLE spectrum…’
Right then! I confess myself overwhelmed. 🙂 But Lasha and Sister Monica: I’m sorry, but I have not been there in yonks. I probably could not find my way back. So I cannot oblige.
I get a little exasperated with sweeping generalizations.
Peter Petherington, I appreciate, has some kind of familial bugbear gnawing at him and that, to me, is more understandable than the folly of casual hauteur indulged by some of the familiar voices here and I note with sadness too, at this page, by one of our very best new contributors. The “BTW” disclaimer, I’m afraid, doesn’t bring any compensatory balance. Being poorly informed doesn’t equate to lesser faculty.
I’m not trying to convince anyone, though. I’m not impassioned. I make no plea. I’ve addressed the “thicko/ sheeple” issue a few too many times already to know that curmudgeons are not very easily persuaded by appeal to spiritual acuity. A less self-righteous predisposition shouldn’t amount to a surrender of identity, as some seem to construe.
Let’s put the proposition to the Socratic challenge, shall we?
– All Brits are thick.
– andyay is a Brit.
– Therefore, andyay is thick.
Is this true? Actually, that’s probably a bad example. There’s likely a few of you out there who would agree with the conclusion. How about instead;
– All Brits are thick.
– [Add your name here, if you’re from England, Scotland or Wales] is a Brit.
– Therefore, [add your name here] is thick.
We could see if it works for other nationalities as well. Easy game this.
Hello, PP!
I responded to both your comments above. Perhaps my responses were too trivial to publish. But a further try on this point of yours: ‘And when I say “THICK Brits” I’m referring to the WHOLE spectrum… from the bums to the toffs… ‘:
I had no class-distinction in mind with my ‘the poorly educated indigenous ones (the majority)’. So I do not object to your ‘the WHOLE spectrum’. On the contrary. My purpose was to prefer the description ‘geo-political naivity’ to ‘thick’, for the latter term does not distinquish the Brit. That is, the ‘thick’ are also the many others .
@Sophie J.
My whole point is that since – once again! – it’s Rothschild sock-puppet Perfidious Albion stirring up sh!t on the world stage with its pernicious “No Ukraine Negotiations!” War propaganda – fronted by a ridiculous ‘Dynamic Duo Of Duplicity’ starring The Fat Turk & Trollopy Truss –
you’d think that your average Brit would at least be aware of the special RESPONSIBILITY he has of preventing World WAR by keeping the criminal enterpise that masquerades as his “Government” in check… not to mention that, purely out of self-preservation, it might have dawned on him that just ONE Sarmat Missile would wipe out his whole country!
But NO… not on your Nelly! The THICK Brit – even if he can see beyond his nose – buys 100% into the puerile propaganda pablum served across the whole spectrum … from the “Titty” tabloids… to the British Brainwashing Corp… Sky “News”…. to The Lobotomist magazine … you name it!
THAT is why Brits are not only THICK but also CULPABLE!
@Sophie J.
Yes.. I just checked it myself.. and it seems that LD & SM are “no longer with us”
Perhaps they both retired to The Convent… or maybe they threw in the towel and joined up with a travelling troupe of Bedouin belly-dancers? 🤔
@Peter P:
I must admit that I am having difficulty with clinching the point I want to make. But give me another go, please. To begin:
‘…you’d think that your average Brit would at least be aware of the special RESPONSIBILITY he has of preventing World WAR by keeping the criminal enterprise that masquerades as his “Government” in check…’
I would not think that. Look what is happening instead: The ‘there is no alternative to the present government’ is the current orthodoxy. You hear it ad nauseam. It is the end-of-conversation marker. Now you cannot stir up even a tiny bit of interest in a ‘what might be done about this’ line. British, particularly English, parochialism is entrenched and fed flatteringly by the MSM. It is in robust health.
Try something like commending Hungary’s Viktor Orban as the statesman-style we should be seeking in the UK — the leader who works exclusively in the national interest. The ‘now you’re talking garbage’ visage looks at you briefly. It cannot believe that you have proposed an innocuous little wog leader as a model for Britain.
Or try ‘get rid of BoJo now. He will bring WW III down upon us to save his arse!’ No good. This Brit’s General has already addressed that point, and was celebrated by his MSM. Britain will knock Putin out. One more venture from you and he will walk away.
A sense of responsibility? WHAAAT?
(Lasha and Sis M? They are probably where you say. Or going trans.)
@ Sophie..
Darkmoon was retired… if you get my drift… and thus so were all the creative writing staff…..
who worked so hard..for the ‘Poetess’….
Presumably they are all back at GCHQ nowadays…making tea and zipping ‘decommissioned’ spook cadavers into holdalls…
or down at the Dolphin square…. safe house… ‘cleaning up’….
@Sophie J.
Yes… I’m afraid you’re right… the parochialism IS entrenched… with reinforced concrete…. and NOTHING will change that…. at least until it’s too late.
For my part, I will henceforth cease & desist with any more references to TBs in what has been a vain attempt to shock at least one or two patients in the mental-asylum into some sort of self-analysis… and concentrate on more pressing personal matters like getting a ONE-WAY ticket to S, America,
Adios Senorita.
(re “Or going trans.” 😅😅😅)
@Chesterton
re Darkmoon was “retired”…. GHCQ…. etc
Hmmm…. interesting conjecture…. VERY interesting…..
re “… zipping ‘decommissioned’ spook cadavers into holdalls…” 😅😅😅
@chesterton
Oh, of course! I should have guessed. 🙂
@ Peter Petherington
Mean spirited ill-will is not critique. When the substance of a comment tells more of the commenter than it does the issue addressed, it reveals ulterior prejudice.
If the purpose were to provoke the audience into self-examination, then why post here? Why not the Daily Mail? Who do you suppose your audience is? This may be a British website, with a largely British readership and a majority British contributor-base but we’re here precisely because we’re fully aware of the crisis of our times. Have you ever once read a comment at this site, praising government in Britain? If “self-analysis” were the point, then why ignore mine, as I gave?
(Victor Orban has been generally well regarded by truthseeker readers but we’re also aware that his capitulation to the Holocaust lobby is a bad sign, among others.)
1. “Perfidious Albion” refers to the English only. Not to the Brits. A bit thick.
2. “Adios señorita.” – “Goodbye Little Miss.” Hmm…Either patronizing or a bit thick.
3. Darkmoon.me has been off-line for nearly a year now and Lasha’s whereabouts have been discussed at these pages on a good number of occasions. For my part, I think her behaviour is more indicative of a nervous breakdown, than any of the other varied speculations which have been mooted. Rather slow, somewhat insensitive and a bit thick all round.
4. A failure to grasp chesterton’s uniquely craftful teasings and his driest of dry wine wit, is a bit thick.