suspicious_hyperlinkRussians spend ~40% of income on food, highest level in 16 years
Not good news. Sanctioning people in order for them to starve is what the USA is doing to Cuba, with the explicit aim of “bringing about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”. Yearly, EU+USA economic sanctions murder over half a million people over the world, per the latest analysis in the medical journal The Lancet.
As much as we criticise Putin when he mocks Europeans freezing in winter due to fossil gas prices (I myself experienced a 200% increase in heating costs in the 2022-2023 winter), we shouldn’t celebrate when innocent Russian citizens are forced to hunger by sanctioning and by their own government’s right wing policy.
It may not always be starving in the literal sense, but reduced life expectancy due to skyrocketed prices of vegetables like bell peppers or tomatoes after sanctions is not something to celebrate either.