Lance D. Johnson – Natural News July 17 2025
As the bombs fall and Ukrainian civilians flee their homes, another silent invasion is taking place—not with tanks, but with corporate contracts. Western agribusiness titans like BlackRock, Vanguard, Monsanto, and Saudi investment funds are exploiting Ukraine’s devastating war to quietly seize control of the country’s most valuable resource: its legendary black earth soil. With over a third of Ukraine’s farmland now at risk of going unplanted due to the Russian invasion, opportunistic investors are swooping in, leveraging IMF-backed land reforms to strip Ukrainians of their agricultural heritage. The consequences go far beyond Ukraine’s borders—global food security is being hijacked by the same corporate elites who care more about profits than people.
Key points:
- Ukraine’s “chernozem” soil—among the most fertile in the world—is being rapidly acquired by foreign corporations as Ukrainian farmers struggle amid war and displacement.
- IMF pressure forced Ukraine to lift a land-sale moratorium in 2020, opening the door for agribusiness giants to buy up vast tracts of farmland.
- Major investment firms like BlackRock and Vanguard, alongside agribusiness corporations, now control nearly 28% of Ukraine’s arable land.
- Ukrainian labor and regulatory loopholes allow these corporations to exploit cheap labor, banned fertilizers, and GMO crops—practices illegal in the EU.
- If Ukraine joins the EU, these corporations could flood Europe with cheap, deregulated crops, decimating local farmers while pocketing taxpayer-funded subsidies.
The great land grab: How corporations are colonizing Ukraine
Ukraine’s black earth, known as chernozem, is a national treasure, possessing nearly a quarter of the world’s richest soil. Historically, Soviet collectivization stripped farmers of private land ownership, but after Ukraine’s independence in 1991, oligarchs and foreign investors began seizing control. Fast-forward to 2024, and the situation has worsened dramatically—thanks to IMF-imposed land reforms pushed through during COVID lockdowns, preventing mass protests.
The Oakland Institute’s explosive 2023 report reveals a stark reality: foreign agribusinesses now dominate Ukrainian farmland, operating through shell companies in tax havens like Cyprus and Luxembourg. Entities like NCH Capital—backed by U.S. pension funds and university endowments—are buying up land at unprecedented rates. Worse still, Ukrainian oligarchs have sold off shares to Western banks, turning food security into just another Wall Street commodity.
“They don’t care about feeding people—they care about controlling the food supply,” warns András Tibor Cseh, a Hungarian agricultural expert. “Ukraine is becoming a sacrifice zone for global agribusiness.”
Deregulation warfare: How GMOs and banned chemicals flood Ukraine
While EU farmers must comply with strict environmental laws, Ukraine has become a deregulated playground for agribusiness. Half the fertilizers used in Ukraine are already banned in Europe, yet corporations like Monsanto—blocked from operating in the EU due to GMO bans—see Ukraine as an open frontier for genetic experimentation.
With labor costs four times lower than Hungary and no animal welfare laws, Ukraine is a corporate dreamland. “There are no rules,” says Cseh. “They grow whatever they want, poison the soil, and then sell the contaminated grain abroad.” This toxic harvest isn’t just a Ukrainian problem—these cheap, deregulated crops will soon flood European markets, undercutting local farmers while filling corporate coffers.
The EU membership trap: A corporate takeover in disguise
The ultimate goal? Fast-tracking Ukraine into the EU, giving agribusiness giants duty-free access to 450 million consumers. Once inside the EU, these corporations will grab even more land while pocketing billions in farm subsidies—paid for by European taxpayers.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian farmers—many of whom opposed the land reforms—are being pushed aside. As land transactions surge post-invasion, foreign entities exploit legal loopholes, even bypassing Ukrainian citizenship rules through presidential decrees.
“They’re not just buying land—they’re buying influence,” warns the Oakland Institute. With thousands of lobbyists in Brussels, these corporations are ensuring Ukraine’s EU accession benefits them, not local farmers.
If BlackRock, Monsanto, and Saudi investors can bleed Ukraine dry during wartime, they’ll do the same anywhere else. This isn’t just about Ukraine—it’s about who controls the global food supply. Once these corporations monopolize farmland, they dictate prices, production, and even policy.
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Israel’s proposed ‘city’ on the ruins of Rafah is really a vast con concentration camp
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Nutenyahu is still pressuring the UK and ireland to take up to 5 million people
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Opinion by The Observer • 4h •
Global organizations are seizing all things everywhere. How long will humanity allow this disaster to grow??
Isn’t it odd that ‘we’ are being fed diversity, equity and inclusion at every social level but then at the corporate and governance level its all about the opposite, consolidation into one.
Sounds like Holodomor II. So now we see why the eurasian chabad ghoul strangely pulled back his army after the first few weeks of the invasion & didn’t continue on to Kiev & simply conquer Ukraine–because the same banks, ‘investment companies’ & corporations manage both NATO & Russia as they reduce the Aryan population in Ukraine via a coordinated war..
The overall effect of this article for most Western investors will not be for any of them to withdraw money from BlackRock or Vanguard but rather to pour more money into their stocks. When I say that our leading Western nations, and Russia and China are rotten to the core I am not exaggerating.
Yes, the mainly US-based and largely Jewish-owned multinationals as pointed out by many little voices over a year ago are gobbling up the rich, rich farmlands of the Ukraine as well as all other valuable resources and assets. The war is a pretext for such perks following the alleged “necessity” of giving superpower, nuke-wielding Russia a good hunk of the Ukraine for getting out of Syria, and even more for is very predictable abandonment of Iran.
The multinationals are the second tier of power to the international banking cartel, mostly dominated by the Zionist Rothschild dynasty, with the equally shameful and greedy old-money oligarchs of the West tagging along behind to share in the plundering and the spoils. That is essential power structure which controls our governments and runs the orchestrated left-right, and globalist-nationalist dichotomies through their various media and other brainwashing controls in order to divide and control us.
The people and the government of the Ukraine tried to play a middle game between Russia and the EU up until the Syrian war which was started by the Western powers in 2011 which was mainly for the complete control of the Levant mainly to satisfy the Zionist whims of the Rothschild dynasty and to further their wet dream of the Greater Israel Project. As Russia continued to back Syria despite all efforts of the US, the UK, France, and Israel to destabilize the nation economically, and with their insurgencies and terrorist operations, the Russian-friendly government of the Ukraine was replaced by 2014, mainly by US, UK and Rothschild-backed destabilization and NGO wet work, which operations began in 2012.
The Russian-purging operations by the puppet governments of the Ukraine since 2014 were entirely orchestrated by the same Western power structure and mainly to use the Ukraine as a bargaining chip in a deal with an equally-corrupt Russian government. The Russia-bashing campaign orchestrated by the ZOG-run US deep state which began in 2014 was mainly to set up the deal for Syria.
Most Americans, most Brits, most Jews will ignore all of the historical facts and actual evil intentions and and actions of their nations. They prefer to be blind and to watch MSM news coverage and listen to fake opinions simply because it is very comfortable for them to keep their heads deeply buried in the sand. They could care less about the endless slaughters and plundering their nations are responsible for or about the dirty deals made with other superpowers in carving up smaller nations striving for self-determination. All they care about is the security of their life styles and their various investments, and they are absolutely willing to rely on the most absurd lies of their leaders to justify all of the unjust wars and plundering.
better Putin takes the rest of Ukraine fast + throws the
Zelensky mafia out according to JALTA AGREEMENT !
that those wallstreet creeps get no chance + this parasites
will cling to their aim, so the war will become hotter
spreading to northwestern europa .