Due to the inaccurate and ridiculous narrative around, I'll share the bullet points in the article showing that the "#Ukraine is far from feeding the world" as written in my article today:
#Russia - not #Ukraine - is the primary source of wheat globally.
The world doesn’t depend on Ukrainian wheat. The war added to an already existing problem.
Ukraine is countering the sea blockade and has agreed with Lithuania, Latvia and Poland to export its wheat.+
One of the most significant causes of the wheat crisis is the US-EU sanctions on the Russian energy supply, raising the transport price, & penalizing 7 Russian shipping companies & 69 other ships.
The supply of wheat and corn from Ukraine does not depend on the survival of the country or the end of the war.
Global markets are preparing for a wheat and corn delivery shortage, starting from August and September, amounting to a deficit of at least 20 million tons.+
According to the US and Europe's additional sanctions against Russia and its transportation means, these numbers may rise.
What worsened the wheat food security & supply was India's decision –8th among wheat-exporting countries with 4.1% of global exports - to stop wheat exports.
The decision of #India came amid a crop loss due to record-breaking heat waves in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, making the crop unfit for human consumption, reducing production from 113.5 million tons to 105 million tons. +
The price of wheat was about $210 per ton, but today it has reached nearly $453 in the European markets. The countries importing wheat from India will be the first to be affected by the decision of New Delhi, mainly in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.+
The US and Europe criticized the Indian decision: EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis said that "these export-restrictive measures could exacerbate the wheat problem." India responded that "blaming developing countries like India will not solve the global food crisis."+
The US sword is hanging over everyone's neck in the West. What is required of Europe by the US is to antagonize Russia and stop all avenues of trade cooperation and blame Moscow for any crisis triggered by the western countries and their irresponsible decisions. +
European officials must adapt to the unpopular and counterproductive decisions they have taken. This is a situation they just have to accept: they will pay a hefty price they have themselves helped to create to remain under the US neo-colonialism.
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#Lebanon parliamentary elections: #Hezbollah and its allies, including the Christian of @tayyar_official won 60 seats at the Parliament, while the allies of #SaudiArabia and the #US, notwithstanding millions of dollars spent to win the majority, won 42 seats.
For more than 12 years, #Hezbollah had 13 MPs and has always won 12-13 MPs in every parliamentary election. Therefore, saying "Hezbollah lost the majority seats at the parliament" is similar to saying Neo-Nazis were evacuated not surrendered in #Azovstal.
#Hezbollah's Shia partner, the AMAL movement, has 17 seats (as agreed with Hezbollah for over a decade) & continues winning 16-17 seats in every election.
The fight was on the #Christian seat: the pro-US-Saudi-Israel group versus the US-sanctioned group led by @tayyar_official
The battle of #Mariupol and #Azovstal is over: The #Ukraine army command has confirmed in its social networks that its servicemen - a large portion of them r members of the Neo-Nazi ‘Azov regiment’ - holed up at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol have been ordered to surrender.
#Ukraine neo-Nazi group uniform features Nazi insignia and its members have tattoos, the swastika. Its commander Andrey Biletsky believes it’s #Ukraine’s mission to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade against Semite-led Untermenschen [inferior humans]”.
The first stage of surrender was completed: 264 soldiers left #Azovstal. There are now 53 wounded servicemen in a hospital in Novoazovsk and 211 soldiers in Yelenovka, both of which are part of the #Donetsk People’s Republic.
By 1945, #US’s war to contain #Japan’s Asian expansionism, retaliate for Pearl Harbor & drop 2 nuclear bombs to impose its World hegemony had become a project to eliminate European empires, lead global economic order, colonise Europe & the ME and keep them away from #Moscow.
The world is definitely far from being a safer place with #Finald and #Sweden joining the military organisation @NATO, ending decades of neutrality.
#EU leaders are risking the continent's safety, provoking & challenging #Russia instead of engaging in a serious dialogue.
#Russia doesn't need to confront @NATO almost 2 million soldiers w/ classical weapons when & if confrontation wld be the last way out. This is the beginning of the end of stability.
For what? To protect the #US unipolar hegemony of the world.
#Israel sniper killed @AlJazeera long-time correspondent in Palestine Shireen Abu Aq'la with a bullet in the head during an Israeli raid in the Palestinian camp of Jenin this morning.
There was no gunfire in the area but a sniper shot the dual US-Palestinian national journalist, born in #Jerusalem#Palestine. No clashes were nearby.
Will the @joebiden administration move against this murder and other crimes by #Israel?
Since the year 2000, #Israel killed 28 journalists while exerting their profession. All Israeli crimes r unaccountable according to the (non-existing) International law.
All, like @ShireenNasri that was assassinated today, were wearing a visible PRESS sign when shot and killed.
On the 12th of May, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö is expected to announce his country's accession to NATO, followed by the approval of the Finnish parliament. This step will be considered a provocation by Russia.
#EU learning piracy from the #US
EU’s high representative for foreign policy Josep Borrell said the US had taken control of billions of dollars of #Afghan central bank's assets & that it would be logical to consider similar steps with #Russia’s reserves. ft.com/content/82b044…
Always remember why there is a war in #Europe:
The 2007 Speech In Which #Russia President Vladimir Putin Told Us about NATO expansion and the consequences of the US breaking its promises.