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As #Russia ist the invader and, indeed, a "misfired shell" can do immeasurable damage, I think at this point in time (and also regarding the cooling-water situation), we are past, "he said, she said."
Multiple nations are now threatened, some for hundreds, if not thousands of years, depending on the fallout.
IMO, international intervention it has to be. The two parties had enough time to sort this out. They have not. the stakes are too high.
@tw1tch @RedCore @POLITICOEurope @NATO @[email protected]
IMO the time for #appeasement has passed.
That strategy has never worked historically.
#Putler understands one language only: power.
What surprises me is #Xi's current silence.
#Ukrainian wheat is essential for #China and #Ukraine a significant crossroads/waystation for its #RoadAndBeltInitiative.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/19/map-predicts-fallout-from-disaster-at-ukrainian-nuclear-plant/
#Xi, in contrast to #Putler, is a brilliant strategist.
At present, he still needs the West to revive his sputtering domestic economy.
We all saw how quickly #ZeroCovid collapsed after protest that a #French government might have ignored, figuratively speaking.
The #CCP promised it people prosperity in exchange for control and lack of freedom.
#China is the #EU's biggest trading partner.
IDK how #AtomicKitten's music sales are faring in 🇨🇳. I am quite sure, though, that...
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...any other #atomic products, apart from weapons plans that he might already have received from the #ChiefForeignAsset, would not be of any interest.
What really would push the #Chinese people over the brink would be #FoodRiots.
In contrast to popular opinion, only people in Southern #China have #rice as their main staple foodstuff. Not so in most of the rest of the country.
#WEF: 👉#Ukraine is "...a major producer and exporter of staple grains—vital commodities👈...
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...for the international food system. In fact, the #WorldFoodProgram, which is the #UnitedNations' #humanitarian food-assistance organization, gets 👉40% of its #wheat from #Ukraine.👈...
#China was deemed a "top market" for the export of #SunflowerOil, #IndianCorn (#Mais,) #Barley. (1)
#FarmPolicyNews puts this more succinctly with numbers:
"With respect to corn exports to #China, #ERS explained that, “In 2012/13 #Ukraine exported...
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...corn to #China for the first time, and 👉within 2 years (2014/15) Ukraine had become by far the major supplier of corn to the country👈, supplanting the #UnitedStates and 👉providing (in any given year) 60 to almost 90 percent of #Chinese imports.👈 When (in 2020) #China’s demand for imported corn surged and its imports almost quadrupled, 👉the country became #Ukraine’s largest export destination, for the first time outstripping the #EuropeanUnion.👈 For 2021/22 (...
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...the October- December period), about 30 percent of #Ukraine’s corn exports went to #China, down from about 40 percent during the same period a year ago, which 👉puts Ukraine on track to send about a third of its corn exports to #China this year, directly competing with the #UnitedStates.”👈 (2)
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Sources:
(1)
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/ukraine-s-food-exports-by-the-numbers/
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