EU Will Be Held Responsible for Starving Millions Around The World – Tycoon

• It is the USA & EU who are refusing to buy from Russia much needed goods: food and energy. It is not that Russia refuses to sell to them. It is USA & EU who are imposing sanctions on Russia and not Russia sanctioning them. Any country that violates USA & EU sanctions on Russia will be on their ‘hit list’. So USA & EU are preventing the rest of the world from buying from Russia.
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• Putin is playing a politically astute game. He has not announced a refusal to sell to anyone who choose USA/EU side. He has merely change certain terms like: you must buy in Rubles. And it is reasonable because Russia cannot use the USD any more. If Putin announced an outright ‘Refuse to Sell’ sanction on countries on the side of USA/EU, he will effectively pushed these countries firmly on the side of USA/EU. Ie. Russia has lost politically in the propaganda war.
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• His current stand is a ‘Political Win’ for Russia because those countries on the side of USA/EU cannot blame Russia for their predicament. They refuse to buy from Russia or are being prevented to do so by USA/EU. It is not Russia’s fault! Smart move, great move. Putin: “You want to bow to the Anglo-American west and shoot yourself on the foot? Your suicidal behavior is your choice! Don’t blame Russia!”
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• Quite obviously more nations will grow to hate USA/EU and will find ways around their sanctions and move more towards Russia. Western Europe will end up hating the Anglo-American power as more people suffer and die in the coming months.
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• EU Will Be Held Responsible for Starving Millions Around The World – Tycoon
  by https://www.rt.com/
  A sanctioned Russian fertilizer mogul warns that sanctions targeting food and energy are ‘economic weapons of mass destruction’
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  Sanctions imposed on Russian and Belarusian fertilizer producers are akin to weapons of mass destruction in the scale of the damage they will likely cause over the next few years, the founder of chemical giant EuroChem has claimed.
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  “The EU sanctions mean suffering, famine and migration flows for many hundreds of millions of people,” Andrey Melnichenko said in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Die Weltwoche on Thursday.
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  “Sanctions targeting food and energy are economic weapons of mass destruction. They hit innocent people the worst. I have no doubt that billions of people will feel its effects,” he warned.
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  Suffering people will want to hold those responsible accountable, and the EU won’t be able to shift its culpability, the businessman added. It was not Russia or the US, but EU members like Lithuania and Estonia, and also European leaders Germany, France and Italy, which chose to disrupt the operation of his chemical empire with sanctions, he explained.
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  EuroChem, a leading fertilizer producer, is headquartered in Switzerland, where Melnichenko also lives with his family. The EU and Switzerland targeted the company and its owner with sanctions aimed at hurting the Russian economy in retaliation for Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine.
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  Melnichenko argued he personally was unjustly punished for being a rich Russian, dismissing claims that he had any influence on the Russian government. He warned of the catastrophic consequences that the “carpet-bombing” of the Russian economy will cause over a few years.
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  He assessed that EuroChem products helped feed almost 274 million people. With its fertilizers not produced and sold due to sanctions, the effect would be far worse than what is happening now over the cut in grain exports from Ukraine, he said.
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  “The G7 countries, with their one billion citizens, see themselves as the world’s moral leaders. But they have overridden the interests of the other seven billion people,” he said.
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  Russia and its ally Belarus, another target for Western sanctions, account for 17% of global fertilizer supply, the tycoon said. Should that supply disappear from the market, the world “will lose food for almost 750 million people after just a few harvests,” he warned. Exports from those two countries already dropped by 30-40% amid the stand-off with the West, and it’s the most vulnerable people who are paying the price, Melnichenko added.
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