Dear US press: There is a MASSIVE story that you are missing every time you talk about fuel prices and inflation and Ukraine and Trump and Gun Control and most everything else.

You could cover it. People would read it.

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@FoxNews @CBSPolitics @NBCNews @abcnews @MSNBC
And you're so close ... except that somehow fact is opinion. "Opinion | Putin is starving millions of people around the world." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
This - despite being on the opinion page - IS A STONE COLD MFKING FACT. "The Russian leader is also responsible for the growing starvation of people around the world."
And this is a choice. Putin would be better off financially to steal the grain and sell it to desperate nations to fund his illegal war. But he doesn't. He blockades it himself.
A few news outlets have asked "why?", and concluded it is a means to bring the world to the negotiating table. Mostly, however, they just say "it's happening" and go back to sleep. npr.org/2022/06/03/110…
At least one guy is explaining what is happening. Zelenskyy ""The food security crisis will inevitably lead to large-scale protests in European countries...governments will have to explain [why Europe] is held hostage by...one person in Moscow that gave the order...."
Zelenskyy: ""If we do not avert [the supply problems] we will see political chaos in Africa and Asia, and an ensuing MIGRATION CRISIS in Europe when people suffering from famine will seek refuge elsewhere," Zelenskyy told the conference audience."
THIS IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE REPORTED ON. Some guy in Moscow is causing world famine, mass migration and political chaos in Europe and Africa ON PURPOSE. As part of a strategy to harm democracy. HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY LEAVE THIS OUT OF THE STORY?
And that same guy - he has three major sources of power: petroleum, corruption and willingness to murder. And if you look at the cRisIS oN thE SOuthErN bORder and US Republicans - THE FINGERPRINTS ARE EVERYWHERE.
A guy that would disrupt African and Europe would gladly use guns, oil revenues and cocaine to drive migrants from Central/South America to the Rio Grande AS LONG AS THAT HURT DEMOCRACY. Which it does.
A guy that would disrupt African and Europe would gladly drive purchases of AR-15s by mentally unstable 18 year olds AS LONG AS THAT HURT DEMOCRACY. Which it does. And his US minions (Cruz, et al) gleefully help.
A guy that would disrupt African and Europe would gladly use fuel prices in the United States to drive a political narrative AS LONG AS THAT HURT DEMOCRACY. Which it does. And the petrol mob HAS EVERY REASON TO HELP. Which it does.
A guy that would disrupt African and Europe would gladly use his power to prevent Americans from having access to affordable health care, including mental health care AS LONG AS THAT HURT DEMOCRACY. Which it does. And which evil minions happily support no matter how many die
A guy that would disrupt African and Europe would gladly use his power and domestic traitor buds to undermine the Rule of Law, the SCOTUS, the Senate, law enforcement, etc. AND IT IS RIGHT NOW.
A guy that would disrupt African and Europe would gladly use guns, oil revenues, cocaine and domestic traitor buds (and pedos) to ATTACK THE PRESS which he is and y'all BETTER WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE, because yes he/it/they will murder you for fun and profit.
Dirk out.
I meant to talk about the Holodomor, since its such an obvious historical reference, but I got all revved up and distracted.
And if you dig this kind of thing, please follow. You'll love my stuff on the J6 hearings.
I meant to mention Syria. Such a clear precursor. Millions dead and displaced.
OK, just one more thing. We can identify and report on US and European individuals that adopt pro-Putin ideas. AND WE CAN ASK WHY? This is the crucial point: only psychopaths and traitors are pro-Putin.
And yes, of course, he would disrupt the global environment if it would potentially help him grow wheat in siberia and hurt democracy. Of course he would cause global warming on purpose. And so would his minions for pocket change.
And of course it figures I'd have a misspelling in the one line in this thread I copied and pasted.

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