That is the convenient excuse that was forbidden last year but has been picked up by mainstream media as a convenient and plausible scapegoat. Probably even Hasbara has been instructed to spread and upvote because that is the currently convenient narrative.
And like other articles pointed out, wealthy western countries will always just outbid poorer countries for their food. No one in Germany, Poland or the UK was going to go hungry without the grain or fertilizer from Ukraine - but it does mean we have a much tighter supply than before, and poorer countries got quite literally priced out. Combined with the reduction of foreign aid(not just by US) there is a humanitarian crisis going on in a lot of places as a direct consequence of this. This is "just" going to make the existing problems worse.
Tough problem! Perhaps the US commentariat should listen to Thomas Friedman's wisdom and start loudly hectoring the rest of the world to step up and fix this problem.
The IRGC wants the blockade for self-preservation among its own population to show it is resisting "The West".
Russia wants the blockade because it profits from higher oil and fertilizer prices. Also it wants to tie up U.S. military resources in Iran.
The U.S. elites and Trump want the blockade to subjugate the EU and China and sell their oil and natural gas. (The meek recent Senate protest means nothing. If the elites didn't want the war, the House and the Senate would have 2/3rd majorities to stop it.)
None of these autocratic countries care about their own populations. Trump has said so explicitly many times.
So all world populations as well as the EU and Chinese industries are being fleeced. It would be cheaper to bribe the IRGC to lift the blockade while publicly maintaining the anti-Western stance. Then the U.S. would have to lift their blockade.
But the EU is watching like scared children and China builds new Siberian pipelines.
It is most definitely a defense if you use the same logic the US does. If the US can seize oil tankers going to and from Cuba and Venezuela and attack fishing boats in the name of national security, then Iran can definitely blockade the Strait of Hormuz in the name of defense.
How are you going to discuss geopolitics here if attempts at explaining the stalling of the U.S. and Russia to defuse the conflict are censored.
Instead, the "Israel controls the world" narrative, repeated incidentally by many Western and pro-Russian outlets on Twitter and YouTube is the top comment.
So probably this censored comment is correct but outside the Overton Window.
Correction: Trump probably isn't even a liar, but a bullshitter. A liar, at the very least, understands whatever he's saying is not true; a bullshitter doesn't care at all about the relationship between his words and the truth, he just makes noise.
It’s a sacrifice israel is willing to make.
That is the convenient excuse that was forbidden last year but has been picked up by mainstream media as a convenient and plausible scapegoat. Probably even Hasbara has been instructed to spread and upvote because that is the currently convenient narrative.
I love it when people push back like this without suggesting the real reason. Can't think one can you? That too from a new sock puppet.
Here are two articles Reuters wrote about how the war in Ukraine was going to do something similar in 2022[1][2]. Make of this what you will.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/graphics/UKRAINE-CRISIS/FOOD/zjvqkgo... [2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-war-ukraine-bla...
Also worth noting that a deal was worked out a few months later, before things could get bad. https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112880942/ukraine-grain-expo...
And like other articles pointed out, wealthy western countries will always just outbid poorer countries for their food. No one in Germany, Poland or the UK was going to go hungry without the grain or fertilizer from Ukraine - but it does mean we have a much tighter supply than before, and poorer countries got quite literally priced out. Combined with the reduction of foreign aid(not just by US) there is a humanitarian crisis going on in a lot of places as a direct consequence of this. This is "just" going to make the existing problems worse.
Tough problem! Perhaps the US commentariat should listen to Thomas Friedman's wisdom and start loudly hectoring the rest of the world to step up and fix this problem.
Or we could just accept defeat and leave.
Doesn't matter.
The IRGC wants the blockade for self-preservation among its own population to show it is resisting "The West".
Russia wants the blockade because it profits from higher oil and fertilizer prices. Also it wants to tie up U.S. military resources in Iran.
The U.S. elites and Trump want the blockade to subjugate the EU and China and sell their oil and natural gas. (The meek recent Senate protest means nothing. If the elites didn't want the war, the House and the Senate would have 2/3rd majorities to stop it.)
None of these autocratic countries care about their own populations. Trump has said so explicitly many times.
So all world populations as well as the EU and Chinese industries are being fleeced. It would be cheaper to bribe the IRGC to lift the blockade while publicly maintaining the anti-Western stance. Then the U.S. would have to lift their blockade.
But the EU is watching like scared children and China builds new Siberian pipelines.
> The IRGC wants the blockade for self-preservation
No. The preservation was all done by the US attacking them. Everything on their part is just well motivated defense.
Attacking international shipping is not a defense.
It is most definitely a defense if you use the same logic the US does. If the US can seize oil tankers going to and from Cuba and Venezuela and attack fishing boats in the name of national security, then Iran can definitely blockade the Strait of Hormuz in the name of defense.
How are you going to discuss geopolitics here if attempts at explaining the stalling of the U.S. and Russia to defuse the conflict are censored.
Instead, the "Israel controls the world" narrative, repeated incidentally by many Western and pro-Russian outlets on Twitter and YouTube is the top comment.
So probably this censored comment is correct but outside the Overton Window.
<< Trump has said so explicitly many times.
Well, based merely on the past 3 months, I am not certain he is a useful way to measure truth or evaluate anything as fact.
That said, in somewhat broad strokes, I don't disagree with the gist of your post.
> None of these autocratic countries care about their own populations. Trump has said so explicitly many times.
Going to need a better source than a habitual liar.
Correction: Trump probably isn't even a liar, but a bullshitter. A liar, at the very least, understands whatever he's saying is not true; a bullshitter doesn't care at all about the relationship between his words and the truth, he just makes noise.