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It is manipulative and misleading to claim that one of the main causes is that "Belarus announced a Force majour " without telling that it was all about western sanctions to Belarus. And they don't have anything to do with invasion of Ukraine as they were declared much earlier. Won't go into discussions towards most important Belarusian industry were the right thing or not, but it has to be clear that Belarusian potash has been withdrawn from global markets due to western sanctions and not to some weather catastrophe or some other unexpected event as usual when Force majour is cited.

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Absolutely there is still time……..time to sit down and reach a good faith negotiated settlement between Russia and the West. everyone without a political axe to grind can see there are genuine issues on both sides and the war option is a horrible alternative to accepting some matters that to date have been deemed unacceptable….that can’t be allowed to be a stumbling block. To think political elites will weaponize food and energy for geopolitical advantage is the real crime here.

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Great article ... this could start a war between climate change fanatics and famine .. we need to change our culture of greed.

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Mar 8, 2022·edited Mar 8, 2022

Unfortunately I think it is already too late to prevent large famines and suffering this year! That would be case even without the war as prices of fertilizers were at record levels before its start already.

Not to buy from Belarus or even Russia rather than soon seeing extreme food inlation and mass sufferings is beyond any logic and far from rationale!

As someone wrote in a comment to the previous post - you became obviously subjective and cheerleading is geting stronger and stronger - I am sad to see that as I said only a few weeks ago how very objective are you!

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Absolutely! Political stability starts with food security and in our well-managed time, the statistical outlier this event will create may not be adequately addressed without top-down policy guidance. Brilliant and forward thinking - how have you not been on my radar previously?

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