Comments by "Marilena Ganea" (@marilenaganea6578) on "VisualPolitik EN"
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@SilentTraveller21 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's a good one! You really believed the Potemkin village of "fortress Russia" and agricultural self-reliance.
That production is built on imported technology, animals and even seeds.
Russia was sanctioned by Western nations following its annexation of Crimea in 2014. Following this, Russia heightened its push for food self-sufficiency, and embargoed western food imports.
Food staples, meat and grains, were the focus. Russia’s wheat production jumped from 37m tonnes in 2012/13 to 75m tonnes in 2021/22 and its meat production went from 8.5m to 10.9m tonnes.
These increases were achieved as the government invested heavily in agriculture. Between 2013 and 2020, Russia’s agricultural budget went from USD 1.98 billion to USD 4.25 billion.
Farmers were offered subsidies to help them improve their practices. Russian farmers began using more imported tractors, combine harvesters and milking equipment, along with other machinery not manufactured in country.
Farmers also imported high-grade pedigree animals for beef, pork, and dairy farming. By 2019, Russia was importing over 45,000 dairy cows a year from Europe, double the rate seen just three years prior. It’s now common practice for Russia’s dairy farmers to import cattle from Western Europe as they produce higher quality milk, and more of it.
Russia’s spree of imports extended onto seeds. Instead of developing higher-yielding, pest-resistant varieties, Russia turned, once again, to Western Europe for quality seeds. This boosted Russia’s agricultural yields.
Spot the Pattern?
The Russian government applies over-simplistic quantitative metrics based on the final outcome to assess selfsufficiency rather than looking at the whole production process and the quality of the outcome.
Beyond this, there are instances where Russia has boosted self-sufficiency in one area at the expense of its independence in another. For example, Russia is normally self-sufficient in sugar but more than 95% of its beet seeds are imported.
50-70% of Russia’s oil-bearing crop seeds are imported, along with a further 40-50% of its potato and vegetable seeds.
Sanctions (both official and self-imposed) mean the usual Western suppliers are avoiding Russia. Whilst food products are immune from sanctions, seeds are not, and some companies have suspended seed exports, which bodes poorly for plantings set to commence within 6-12 months.
And all of the above are just the tip of the iceberg
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Mr Wonder I have no idea what you are smoking but please stop trying to whitewash the lunatic dictators of Iraq, Libya, Syria.
Saddam invaded Iran and Kuwait... should those 2 countries have nukes?
Gaddafi invaded Egypt and tried to invade Chad, sent his soldiers in Tanzania to fight on Idi Amin side (Ugandan dictator), sent his soldiers in Liberian civil war ... should Egypt, Chad, Tanzania and Liberia have nukes?
Al Assad massacred it's own population in Homs, Taftanaz, Houla, Al-Qubeir, Darayya, Bayda, Baniyas, Gouta, (chemical attacks), etc. He invited Putin and his army to level Aleppo, one if the oldest cities in the world
Not all lunatics should have nukes.
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Mr Wonder I'm not denying the war crimes! They did a lot , just like every other power with delusion of grandeur!
Every power did multiple crimes, starting with Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Russia, China, Japan, Italy Spain, every one of them. Even non powers did multiple crimes, see Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, North Korea, etc.
Now ...give me the list of crimes done by your masters...tell Putin to go eff himself!
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@MilanTheMan69 please stop fabricating things that can be checked with a simple Google
The ICSR estimates that France, for example, has sent 1,200 people to Sunni militant organizations in Iraq and Syria; and that both the United Kingdom and Germany have each contributed somewhere between 500 and 600 people. Larger populations, larger numbers of fighters ... that stands to reason. The countries that produce the most ISIS fighters per capita, however, are a bit more surprising.
Belgium, for example, now has more citizens fighting in Iraq and Syria per capita than any other European country (40 for every million people). In fact, the total number of fighters the ICSR estimates Belgium has sent overseas (440) is not far behind the numbers of much larger countries like the U.K. and Germany. The next two European countries with the most foreign fighters are equally surprising: Denmark (with 27 fighters for every million people) and Sweden (with 19). Are these figures indicative of larger problems? Are they clues to thwarting the next horrific attack? The ICSR's full list, as of January 2015, is below.
Country Estimate Per capita
Belgium 440 40
Denmark 100-150 27
Sweden 150-180 19
France 1,200 18
Austria 100-150 17
Netherlands 200-250 14.5
Finland 50-70 13
Norway 60 12
United Kingdom 500-600 9.5
Germany 500-600 7.5
Ireland 30 7
Switzerland 40 5
Spain 50-100 2
Italy 80 1.5
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