I pay attention to world news and what I see is countries announcing they aren't shipping grain exports out. Maybe they are dependent upon Russia for fertilizer but we also get fertilizer imported. They solved any potential fertilizer shortfall by ramping up production here of one of our major suppliers. That tells me that either some countries don't have the capacity to ramp up production, don't make their own fertilizer to begin with or it's possible they are in cahoots to withhold grains to cause famine in third world countries to force those people to migrate. The news isn't always accurate in the portrayal of events either, like the plane that hit a food processing plant didn't hit it at all. It was near the plant not on the plant. Just like a fire could be a small oven fire but lacking any hard evidence the plant was leveled by fire the likelihood of a complete plant shut down is questionable depending upon the size of the manufacturer. My sons worked the food industry quite a bit a few years ago and some of those plants are huge. Here's another thing I find rather odd and bewildering. The store shelves are stocked to the brim, at least here they are. Now last summer that didn't hold true at all. I had a real hard time getting swim pool chemicals for my grand kids pool and remodeling next door paint was a real hit and miss....but China is struggling to stay open amid covid outbreaks. Makes me wonder if it isn't all being manufactured and timed a certain way. Remember last winter the call out on good luck finding Christmas presents? They said massive flooding in China wiped out all their crops and halted manufacturing...but come Christmas there was still stuff to buy.
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This is bad logic. For one thing, Russia is the country exporting the grain that stopped exporting grain. They're also the No 1 grain exporter on that hemisphere which means several under developed countries will not get grain. This is also not the only thing they export.
For another thing, fertilizer? What? To grow a crop and harvest it, then export it would take nearly a year. That is something that would need to have been done months before Russia pulled their exports.
That's right. Seek out independent news that isn't owned by a corporation or a political wing. Also, if any news source that parrots a news organization that is owned by a corporation or political wing should be held suspect and considered untrustworthy. We're living in a time where we are now beyond political bias, but political manipulation. Some political parties (world wide) have found that manipulating constituents to want what the politician wants is easier than the politician representing the party or their constituents (the thing they were elected for).