Ukrane's president, volodimer zalenski, has been begging the west to break this blockade. Wouldn't that mean anyone who gets involved in breaking the blockade is effectively going to war with russia too? That's what it seems like a and the west, you know, has not been interested in getting directly involved in fighting on land in ukraine. So it seems unlikely that they do it at sea. Let's talk about the knockon effects. Where does ukraine's food normally go? Who's in trouble? So a lot of it goes to north africa. In the middle east, one of the ast customers is egypt. But the thing
Russia is weaponizing food by blockading Ukraine’s grain exports and withholding its own until other countries come to Putin to ask for it.
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