Hard time are already here, and they are going to get worse
By Jim W. Dean,
…from Politico
[ Editor’s Note: Once again we have American media pushing the line the Russia is totally responsible for whatever economic calamites the Ukraine war causes. They falsely pick the staring point as this year.
And of course they leave out the 2014 US/NATO coup in Kiev, then the fake-failed Minsk agreements, and using ‘white out’ on the 14 years of shelling the Donbass Russian people, with the 14,000 dead. Trump is not the only ‘Big Lie’ guy.
As Churchill once said during WWII, that in wartime the truth is so precious it must be protected by a “Bodyguard of Lies”.
These Europeans pretend that we don’t have computers and can just Google it all right up as they are required to send their refugee reports in to the UN for its database. You can bet that the Russians have an up to date log on all the Ukrainian refugees there.
The refugee count is a not priority for video news clips. I have only seen a few border crossing numbers, but they were ‘day counts’, and mostly related to Poland.
That said, the initial waves were the upper class folks, including one Ukraine Parliament guy’s wife with 8 million in dollars and Euros in her luggage, obviously planning a shopping trip.
Yemen is on the brink of a horrible famine – here’s how things got so bad
So far the West is mainly all in on the war, despite the obvious economic blow back that will be coming its way, and the EU should be smart enough to see that. So what is it that I am missing that they are still willing to jump on board this runaway train to disaster for so many whose lives and fortunes will be destroyed?
Sure, I know that ‘assest stripping’ Russia is part of it and trying to split it away with its close relations with China, whick to that I say “good luck with that”. I am missing something. Let me know what you thing in the comments… Jim W. Dean ]
First published … May 04,2022
The number of people experiencing crisis-levels of hunger or worse across the globe rose by 40 million in 2021, according to a U.N. and EU-led report published Wednesday.
The figures show that world hunger was already surging at a terrifying rate well before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which is “likely” to exacerbate the situation, the report says.
Over 193 million people in 53 countries or territories faced “acute food security” in 2021, the report says, which is 40 million more than the already record level in 2020.
Over half a million people in Ethiopia, Madagascar, South Sudan and Yemen are faring the worst, with urgent action needed to avoid starvation and death.
…The report comes from the Global Network Against Food Crises, an alliance of the EU, the U.N. and NGOs pushing to end world hunger. Their report says that the world is heading in the wrong direction, with hunger rising steadily since 2018 in 39 of the countries or territories assessed in the report.
War is the main driver of hunger, with climate change and economic shocks also playing key roles.
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine jeopardizes global food security. The international community must act to avert the largest food crisis in history and the social, economic, and political upheaval that could follow.”
