A couple of weeks old but still relevant.
The ship he mentions that was supposed to go to Lebanon had its load of wheat rejected. It had to be re-routed to Syria.
A couple of weeks old but still relevant.
The ship he mentions that was supposed to go to Lebanon had its load of wheat rejected. It had to be re-routed to Syria.
My “wheat math” is simple. I refuse to buy a shrinkflated box of Wheat Thins at my local Safeway’s price of $4.29/box. If they think I’ll buy that same box for $4.54/box … they must be smoking wheat husks
Maybe the manufacturer can add some bugz in and call it ” sustainable ” , while lowering the wheat content and cheating you on size.
That’s some shrinkflation.
How did the French Revolution start?
Hint: “Let them eat cake!”
Shrinkflation started years ago but accelerated recently. The same size box of Triscuits is now 200g having dropped by 50%. The box is still the same size but the bag inside is less than 1/2 full. There are a dozen different flavours of Triscuits now so the shelf at the grocery store is full of 1/2 empty boxes. If wheat goes even higher, the Triscuit boxes will be 1/4 full, lol.
Great marketing.
I buy none.
The Ukrainians can go blow Trudeau and Klaus. I do not give a rat’s ass about the Ukraine Nazi country.
Soon it will be Russian wheat again, and Ukraine will be gone. And the rest of Ukraine will fall to Poland and possibly Hungary.
I DON’T CARE.
The only Nazis is that war are fighting for Wagner and Sparta (including commanders of both), they are fighting for Pootin.
None in Poland has any interest in the occupation of Ukraine.
Keep not carrying, the war will play itself out with or without you carrying.
That’s at least what they told me to say in the WEF talking points email. Heil Globohomo!
+1
I don’t care about the Ukrainians, the Russians or the Poles, Germans or French.
F them.
The problem is that – as history shows – you may not care about the tyrants, but they care about you.
They want what you have, and if they think that war will get it for them, war is what they will use.
– which introduces a dilemma I’ve been suffering – how do I support the Ukrainians? I’m sure there’re lots ‘n lots of sites on teh interwebz, eager to take my money in the name of the cause; but the Ukrainians themselves are ruinously corrupt (remember that Yanukovich’s expulsion is what kicked the whole thing off in the first place), so how do I know my money goes to Ukraine instead of some grinning fraud-artist’s pocket? And from what little news that’s made it out, so desperate are the Ukrainians to get something done about the endemic corruption that last time around, they elected a comedian who flashed his weenie as a comedy act – and who has since proven not only to go after corruption with a cleaver, but to be a quite acceptably good war leader. You show ’em, Mr. Zelensky! – err, but maybe not that…
My original desire was to find something official-Israeli to fund Ukraine by – they don’t supply war material to Ukraine, only humanitarian aid, as the Russians in Syria are cooperating with Israel by keeping Iran off the Israeli border – and I DO NOT use Gofundme for ANYTHING after their betrayal of the truckers. But then I saw the following link on Samizdata:
https://www.samizdata.net/2022/08/when-life-gives-you-lemons-make-lemonade-ukrainian-style/
Two further bits of info on the link – first, the Ukrainians have shown devastating cleverness using drones to confound the Russians (an example through Strategypage – the Russians found Ukrainian road ambushes so deadly that they took to moving all truck transport at night. So the Ukrainians started patrolling the roads at night with little drones that carried a GPS, a thermal camera and a Starlink terminal to nearby artillery. Artillery had all the roads mapped to less than a meter; any heat source the drone picked-up was gifted a HE round or two), and the Ukrainians state any money donated via the above link will be spent on drones. And second, if you want one of the key fobs (I really, really want a SU-34 one), they’re $1,000 U.S. each – but if you provide your contact details, you can pay toward your desired fob in installments – and they do take PayPal.
*sigh* – guess I don’t want a SU-34 key fob that much…
How about this (scroll down to English).
https://pomagam.pl/p7wfkm/
I have donated through them. Warmates perform better than Switchblades. Ukrainian armed forces want more all the time. You know who gets the money. You know what you’re buying. You bypass all the government corruption.
“Warmates perform better than Switchblades.”
Not surprising – the Switchblade has a tiny little warhead. And I bet the Warmate, being locally produced, costs a lot less too.
Last time I was about there seemed to be a lot of wheat fields. Too bad these are in deplorable areas. In fact lets assume Western Canada is a net exporter of wheat and until the economic disaster that is Trudeau, would benefit from a rise in prices. A significant proportion of the cost increases farmers face are the various carbon taxes and restrictions on the western economy with more to come – clean fuel taxes, reduction of nitrogen from the atmosphere etc.. Our problem is less Ukraine than Ottawa, only one of which should be reduced to rubble.
Zeihan should stick with demographics. It was corn, not wheat. He loves venturing outside his wheel house. I can appreciate his previous experience at Stratfor, but he really needs to stay where his expertise is.
The cost of growing wheat has doubled in the last two years. If it were not for current market reaction to both the Ukrainian situation, and significant droughts in the US, Europe, Argentina and parts of norther China driving up prices, it would not be economic to grow it.
This is what you get when you panic of Covid and Climate Change, and decide that essential activities like growing and transporting food are unimportant.