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Hunger as a Weapon – Vladimir Putin’s Underestimated Advantage Over the West.

Hunger as a Weapon – Vladimir Putin’s Underestimated Advantage Over the West.

It is at the initiative of Putin that Russia has recovered the "farm power" in the mid-2010s.

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May 23, 2022
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Taking food sanctions against Russia is useless. Putin has built the food weapon and is now standing up to everyone by saying: “You can take all the food sanctions you want, my people will not go hungry”.

Indeed, when, in 2000, the Russian president came to power, Russian agriculture, which dominated the world grain trade in 1914, was in a pitiful state,…

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