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Russia's 'hunger plan' is back

1 November 2022

2:39 AM

1 November 2022

2:39 AM

Until this week, the prospect of globalfamine had disappeared from the headlines, but earlier in Russia’s waragainst Ukraine, a sinister possibility had begun to take shape.

Ukraine is a breadbasket. Its produce feeds the world. AndRussia, knowing this, hatched a plan. Its soldiers could wreck Ukrainian farmland and kill itsfarmers. Russians would steal and sell all the Ukrainiangrain it could.

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