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this in perspective. of course this never should have been necessary, is black sea grain initiative, never should have been necessary in the first place. the only reason it had to happen was because russia invaded ukraine, and then having invaded ukraine, it decided to blockade its ports, the leading port, odesa, to export for wheat and grain and other food products. so the united nations, turkey helped initiate this effort. the result over about a year was to get 35 billion tons of food products out to the rest of the world, predominantly to the developing world. 50% of the food products at least going to the developing world. two-thirds of the wheat. that meant people were getting food on the table and even countries that weren t directly receiving the food products from ukraine were getting lower prices because it s a world market. russia by weaponizing food is doing something truly unconscionable. throughout this period, when the initiative was working, that 35

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