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The price of rice is skyrocketing, and it's pushing millions more people towards starvation (www.abc.net.au)

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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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[-] astral_avocado@programming.dev 33 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

LOL

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Is that why NATO and the EU cannot be baddies?

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year 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.