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The Indian rice export ban, the war in Ukraine and El Niño are combining to create a "doom loop" for the world's poorest people, as staple food prices soar.

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[-] flyingsquirrel@lemmy.ca 104 points 2 years ago

Mainwhile, Russia is actively engaged in the destruction of Ukraine wheat export terminals, and India remains silent.

[-] Zeroxxx@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

India, Indonesia and the rest of non alignment countries do not need to enter this war set up by the West.

[-] astral_avocado@programming.dev 33 points 2 years ago

I agree with you that India doesn't need to take sides, but I'm pretty sure Russian/West cooperation had been increasingly positive since the cold war ended, right until Putin decided he wanted to be an imperialist again. The West didn't make him invade a sovereign, non-threatening country.

[-] Zeroxxx@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Russia imperalist is akin to someone bombing Iraq, Vietnam and Afghanistan?

LOL

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Pssst, you're allowed to criticize more than 1 country

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Is that why NATO and the EU cannot be baddies?

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Iraq was a bullshit war. Cheney, Bush, and Rumsfeld should be in prison for lying to American public to involve us. The Iraqi civilian death toll was obscene. Few will disagree with this.

Ukraine is a bullshit war. Putin should be in prison for lying to involve Russia in it. Few outside Russia disagree with this.

It's not a soccer match. These statements are self-consistent, not contradictory.

[-] astral_avocado@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

A tankies one weakness.. he'll never recover.

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I agree; the joke is that multinationalism is used as a shield. Russia is a far-right fascist state just like America has a right and a far right party, just like how Europe is sliding back to fascism, and while China dives into its thought police hell world all while all of the above exploit the rest of the world and or there own citizens to push nationalism to its upmost cancerous potential untill the whole house of cards snaps on the inferno thtis clmiate change.

[-] FiskFisk33@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

yes, your point being?

Russia is excused because USA is also doing bad stuff? Because that is a weak fucking argument.

[-] stas9@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[-] astral_avocado@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

They're both bad

[-] yoz@aussie.zone 11 points 2 years ago

From what I read India and Russia are really old friends, that's why India isn't saying anything and they do lot of business.

[-] sfgifz@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Historical and political reasons too. USA keeps arming Pakistan with modern weapons, and they have a single target to use them on. It would be stupid of India to put all it's weight behind US if that's a one-sided affair. In an ideal world everyone would side with what is moral, unfortunately we don't live in that world.

[-] yoz@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago
[-] nestEggParrot@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

More than old friends. India is heavily reliant on russian arms. Replacing them would be a slow, expensive process. Considering it is surrounded on two sides by aggressors with regular conflicts, jeopardizing relations with Russia is not an option.

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