'There was a fiction that Vladimir Putin tried to advance that this was somehow about a threat that NATO posed to Russia or that Ukraine posed to Russia. What this is about is Vladimir Putin’s conviction that Ukraine does not deserve to be a sovereign, independent country ... and unless and until he gives up on this fixation on trying to end Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence, it’s going to be hard to get anywhere.'
- Antony Blinken (
Source, June 30, 2022)
'Russia is planning to starve Asians and Africans in order to win its war in Europe. This is a new level of colonialism, and the latest chapter of hunger politics.''Russia has a hunger plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve much of the developing world as the next stage in his war in Europe.
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The Second World War was fought for Ukraine and in considerable measure in Ukraine, between dictators who wanted to control food supplies.
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Putin's hunger plan is, I believe, meant to work on three levels. First, it is part of a larger attempt to destroy the Ukrainian state, by cutting off its exports.
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Russia is planning to starve Asians and Africans in order to win its war in Europe. This is a new level of colonialism, and the latest chapter of hunger politics.
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- Timothy Snyder, July 2, 2022
Context '[Russia] may become a threat to the world. That is the worst thing that could happen to Russia.' - Yegor GaidarZelenskyy brands Russia a ’terrorist’ state, calls for it to be expelled from the United Nations, June 30, 2022
The Russian president is a prisoner of his own delusions – and the similarities with Hitler are hard to ignore'..[Andrei Piontkovsky] says Putin will not stop at Ukraine..'