Biden proposes to export 20 million tons of Ukrainian grain to stabilize food prices
By Drago Bosnic | May 17, 2022
As the establishment in the United States continues to blame Russia for all its problems, including the mythical “Putin’s price hike”, which started at
least a year before Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine,
there is a food shortage crisis looming over the world. And once again,
the political West is pointing fingers at Russia. The reasons for the
food shortage the world will almost certainly experience this year are
manifold. The most obvious reason is that countries are limiting or
outright banning food exports amid announced shortages, as they are
trying to prevent food crises from affecting their populations.
Western mainstream media are also claiming that Russia’s special
military operation in Ukraine is supposedly causing a food shortage in
the country. Some media are going as far as to claim that Russia is
allegedly “stealing” stored grain and agricultural machinery from
Ukrainian farmers in areas such as the Kherson oblast (region). Why
exactly would Russia be doing this is quite unclear, especially given
the country’s massive surge in wheat and grain production in general,
which is breaking records year by year and is set to reach a staggering 130 million tons this year.
In a piece published last week, Financial Times
accused Russia “of industrial-scale farm plunder in Ukraine” and even
claimed that this was “history repeating itself” by evoking memories of
historic famine, referring to the 1930s Holodomor, which in recent years
has been falsely portrayed as a sort of anti-Ukrainian “genocide”
perpetrated by Russia, despite overwhelming evidence that the horrific
famine caused as much damage in present-day southern Russia, reaching as
far as western areas of modern-day Kazakhstan.
“Ukraine’s government has accused Russia of trying to destroy its
agriculture sector by stealing valuable grain stocks and machinery,
deliberately bombing farms and warehouses and blockading its Black Sea
ports to deprive it of exports earnings and farmers of liquidity. There
are multiple examples around the country of grain elevators and
warehouses being bombarded,” Financial Times claimed.
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