Russia offers to lift the blockade on the Black Sea in exchange for easing Western sanctions
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According to The Guardian , a kind of strange negotiation is underway between Russia and the West regarding the blocking of Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea and food supplies from countries currently at war. A negotiation based on mutual threats, but still an interview.
On Thursday, Dmitry Medvedev, a former president of Russia who is now a senior security official, warned that Russia would not continue food supplies unless the West eased sanctions against the Kremlin.
On Thursday, Dmitry Medvedev, a former president of Russia who is now a senior security official, warned that Russia would not continue food supplies unless the West eased sanctions against the Kremlin.
After appeals from the Western government and the United Nations to Moscow to allow the flow of food to avoid a possible famine in some countries, Medvedev said on Thursday that Russia was ready to do so but expected " assistance from trading partners, including on platforms. international "in exchange. " Otherwise, there is no logic: on the one hand we are being imposed crazy sanctions, on the other hand they are demanding food supplies ," Medvedev said on the Telegram messaging app. " Things don't work like that, we're not idiots ."
“ Countries that import our grain and other food products will have a very difficult time without supplies from Russia. And on European and non-European fields, without our fertilizers, only juicy weeds will grow ”, added Medvedev, who was president from 2008 to 2012 but is now vice president of the Russian security council.
In reality the problem of fertilizers is not so much a European one as of which food production is essential on a global level, like India and Brazil. Obviously when war is hybrid everything is used to achieve war purposes, as indeed happened during the first and second world wars, when the United Kingdom and the USA placed a very tight blockade on their enemies that brought economic damage almost greater than the war ones.
Today we have a few hundred million people held hostage by a power struggle between two countries. Practically a slice of the world is at the mercy of what Russia and the USA decide, with China as a very interested spectator. Someone will have to buy Russian wheat sooner or later, and who but Beijing?
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