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US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease food crisis

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Re: US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease food crisis

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Putin might not be the best military strategist but he clearly is a master troll. It’s fascinating where a decade+ of policies ranging from stupid (green tech) to batshit crazy (shutting down nuclear) has led the West (US and especially the EU/Germany). And things are only starting to unravel…

What's stupid about green tech?

Not so much stupid as the decoupling from nuclear before moving away from fossil fuels.

Re: US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease food crisis

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Putin might not be the best military strategist but he clearly is a master troll. It’s fascinating where a decade+ of policies ranging from stupid (green tech) to batshit crazy (shutting down nuclear) has led the West (US and especially the EU/Germany). And things are only starting to unravel…

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Re: US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease food crisis

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So "quiet" that Bloomberg's reporting on it? If you're a farmer, you're going to buy fertilizer from wherever and whomever unless prevented legally from doing so--and I, as a citizen of the US dependent on others growing this food on behalf of me, appreciate it.

quit in terms of US is importing, but the EU is expected to stay strong ideologically.

Look. We all understand that the reaction to the war activistic and ideological. The more time will pass, the more politics will move towards Realpolitik.

Re: US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease food crisis

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What is this "Food Crisis" they speak of?

A spike in food prices. We can probably weather it OK in the developed world, but last time something like this happened it helped kick off the Arab Spring. Abrupt, large changes in quality of life tend to spark revolutions. They usually get people killed, and often don't result in a more-liberal government taking power.

Re: US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease food crisis

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post #4

Putin might not be the best military strategist but he clearly is a master troll. It’s fascinating where a decade+ of policies ranging from stupid (green tech) to batshit crazy (shutting down nuclear) has led the West (US and especially the EU/Germany). And things are only starting to unravel…

What's stupid about green tech?

Not investing fast enough because of short term costs

Re: US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease food crisis

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So "quiet" that Bloomberg's reporting on it? If you're a farmer, you're going to buy fertilizer from wherever and whomever unless prevented legally from doing so--and I, as a citizen of the US dependent on others growing this food on behalf of me, appreciate it.

And I, as an European, hate EU government for taking a self destructive way of introducing various sanctions that affect lives of the EU citizens in a very negative ways, without doing anything to help their proclaimed goals. At this point I am not sure if they are stupid, evil, corrupt or they just despise and hate their citizens. Or maybe all of that. You Americans are least have a pragmatic government that at leas…

The European response to the war is populist and, as you say, self-destructive.

But economies and people can only suffer to a limited extent. EU will return to Realpolitik soon.

Let's face it, the whole bashing of Russia as a "regional power" was idiotic and wrong on the same level as starting the Ukraine war and believing they would win it within a week.

Edit: stop downvoting. How silly are you?

Re: US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease food crisis

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The hypocrisy needs to be called out. Just a few months back US put a lot of pressure on countries like India to not buy Russian oil but now it's ready to buy Russian fertilizers? US media played along with multiple reports on India buying oil when Europe was buying in much larger quantities. Countries like India should buy cheap oil from where ever they can since inflation due to high oil prices can kill people. I a…

Did you consider the possible orders of magnitude of impact the two different actions would cause? This is not an apples to apples comparison.
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