• GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Can NATO just say enough is enough? Attacking food storage will have as large of an effect as the use of a nuclear weapon. The loss in food supply, in theory, would be directly responsible for tens of thousands of starvation related deaths.

    • radix@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If all the previous war crimes weren’t enough, one more isn’t going to change anybody’s mind. :(

    • IchNichtenLichten@server1.duluth.lol
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      NATO is a defensive pact, you fuck with one of us, you fuck with all of us. Ukraine isn’t a member but I support it’s application to join.

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        But the point her is that fucking with the food from Ukraine fucks with the rest.

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            1 year ago

            So if I send a Nuke to Ukraine and affects all the border nations we act o look they didn’t attack us…

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    1 year ago

    So, food is about to get more expensive for everyone since this will effect markets on a global scale.

    • BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf
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      1 year ago

      With the insane rate of increases in food prices lately, not just caused by this war, but also through cascading climate events, it was already very likely that there will be famine in at least some parts of the world. This only further exacerbates what is already a fragile situation globally. We may very well see significant global unrest and possible regime changes across the globe.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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      1 year ago

      What will be interesting to watch is how it affects food prices in countries that didn’t import grain from Ukraine in the first place (like the US). I’m guessing there will still be a significant effect.

      • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        Wheat prices were up 77¢ according to a friend looking at fields that haven’t been contracted yet. That’s just this morning. Don’t know if they continued to rise or if they plateaued, but that’s what the response was in the Midwest.

      • nivenkos@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        The US is literally a world away with huge resources of their own.

        It’s North Africa and Arabia that are going to bear the brunt of it, and Europe too to a lesser extent (they at least have more access to the Atlantic).

    • TurboDiesel@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Dunno why you’re getting downvoted; messing with Ukranian grain has knock-on effects that’ll touch most of the world.