After going to the supermarket yesterday and paying now $6.50 for a loaf of rye bread, I came home to read in the news that Russia (the country that the Corporate Media tells us is on the verge of economic collapse) delivered 25,000 tons of wheat to the African nation of Somalia, as part of a humanitarian effort. After repeated double-dealings by the West, using food embargoes to force compliance with their Ukraine policy, Russia agreed to supply these nations to make up for the shortages.
The African nations will probably find Russian wheat better anyway. After the 2014 Color Revolution in Ukraine, the usurpers agreed with the US Deep State to deploy chemical agents on their crops which are banned in the EU and most other countries. Since this guaranteed a source of cheap grain to Big Ag (after all they can get away with paying Ukrainian farmers a lot less than our already-cheated American farmers who are surviving on farm subsidies); the Biden/Harris Junta also protected these interests by making Zelensky put up Ukrainian grain reserves as collateral for weapons supplies. Somehow, though, none of this has translated into lower prices for American consumers. The Corporate Media, however, assures us that the Scamdemic and the Ukraine 'conflict' is responsible for the high prices which, according to them, aren't so bad anyway.
Given that Marijuana is one of America's leading cash-crops now, it's doubtful that Americans will worry too much about grain prices. After all, there are always food banks which have been seeing increased demand lately, and with 'woke' Corporate Oligarchs scooping up farmland and monopolizing distribution, we in the exceptional United States have nothing to worry about. Food shortages and price fixing only happens in backward places like Africa.
The International Bully, though, was especially incensed by developments in Uganda this week. Following the lead of a growing number of non-Western nations, Uganda enacted some fairly strict laws keeping the nation's families and children safe from the predations of sexual anarchists. Uganda was already in the Junta's bad graces, first from its refusal to play along with the Scamdemic; then, in August, finally ejecting the last remaining Western-backed NGO. Rejecting the Rainbow Agenda and backing that resolution up with sensible laws were more than the US Deep State could stand. Uganda's President responded to the new sanctions by saying: "We will not be intimidated into abandoning our principles and sovereignty," which doubtless infuriated the arrogant Oligarchs even more.
It was telling reading some of the comments from Africans. One said: "The choice is simple for our Uganda brothers and sisters. Either they become vassals of the US like Ukraine and others for instance, or they choose to be fully sovereign nations and morally sound for as long as it takes even it means having to go without food for sometime. This colonial bossy mistreatment by the Americans must be rejected politely, because we are Africans but firmly nevertheless."
That certainly shows more resolve than we'd expect from the Keyboard Warriors in this country. Another African, commenting on the travel ban shows a better understanding of our respective cultures than most of our pundits: "Imagine not being able to travel to see the streets of San Francisco with all the homeless people sleeping, urinating, defecating and taking drugs on them. You can include Philadelphia, New York, Seattle, Portland and it goes on and on. Yes Uganda, you are being derived of seeing places that are worse than your country."
The average Ameroboob, unfortunately can't find Africa on a map, let alone understand why developments there are of any importance. Our exceptional public school system only boasts 10 states which even require Geography to graduate from High School. Our geographic illiteracy is a problem that we've known about at least since the 1980s but nothing whatsoever has been done about it and that willful ignorance and sheer stupidity has led to our Deep State losing any credibility or influence outside areas they can't throttle economically or beat into submission militarily.
The real danger here is not only that we are ignorant of other nations, we also are arrogant about our alleged superiority: and stupidity and hubris typically make a bad combination in Foreign Policy. With the Deep State's military adventures in Ukraine on the verge of collapse and their offensive in Palestine bogging down, this weakness is being exposed for what it really is. As a society, we really need to do some intensive soul-searching because it is only a matter of time before Reality starts insisting that its voice be heard.
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