'Merchant of death' Viktor Bout urges Trump to seek asylum in Russia because his life is in DANGER from government threats and the Stormy Daniels probe

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political

updated 23:12 BST 07 Apr 2023

Bout, who is back in Russia thanks to a prisoner swapnegotiated by the Biden administration for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, saidhe sent a telegram to Trumpwith the warning following the former president's arrest and arraignment in Manhattan this week.

'First and foremost, I consider thathis life is in dangerand that the legal process which has now begun in New York, won't end in Donald Trump being convicted and barred from the election.

'Most likely he will simply be eliminated there,' he said.

Bout, who served 14 year in prison in the U.S. before his release in the swap, got at least one thing wrong about the U.S. legal system. Trump, even if convicted of filing false business records related to the Stormy Daniels payoff, would not be barred from running for president.

He didn't provide further evidence that Trump would be eliminated.

'You will be welcome in Russia. You will have safe haven,' he wrote, according to the document he shared.

He even adopted some of Trump's own language, referring to an 'evil swamp that had taken over.'

Bout, who was played by actor Nicolas Cage in 'Lord of War,' made the claim on Russian state television, as Newsweek reported, at a time of high tensions with Washington.

Bout made the unusual offer to invite Trump to Russia. Trump was investigated by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller for his and his campaign's Russia ties. Trump continues to inveigh against the probe he calls 'Russia, Russia, Russia,' including after his arrest in New York this week.

Said Bout: 'Therefore, I think it's in thebest interests of all of humanityand primarily all of the American people to invite Donald Trump here, to Russia, to give him security and protection here so that he leads this uprising against the globalists and, most importantly, doesnot allow the elimination of the American people.'

The news came on a day that Wall Street Journal reported Evan Gershkovich was formally charged with espionage in Moscow.

The paper and U.S. officials have said emphatically that the charges are false. It comes amid Russia's fury at the U.S., which has provided billions in military support for Ukraine after Russia invaded its neighbor last year.

National security spokesmanJohn Kirby called it 'inexcusable' that Russia would not allow consular access. He is reportedly being held in a notorious prison where dissidents and others have been held since the Stalin era.

Letter:

КОПИЯ ТЕЛЕГРАММЫ, ПОДАННОЙ В ДОСТЕЕ И НОВЕТ

DONALD TRUMP CIO MAR-A-LAGO CLUB,

1100 S. OCEAN BLVD

PALM BEACH, FL, 33480 USA=

DEAR MR. DONALD TRUMP, 1 BELIEVE YOUR LIFE IS IN PERIL, BECAUSE DURING YOUR TERM IN THE WHITE HOUSE, YOU HAD TRIED TO SAVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM THE GENOCIDAL GLOBALIST CABAL, TO PROTECT THE FAMILY, AND TO PREVENT THE GLOBAL CONFLICTS WHICH NOW DESTABILIZE THE WORLD. NOW THIS EVIL SWAMP IS DESTROYING THE LAST FOUNDATIONS OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, IN FACT TURNING IT TO FULL BLOWN ANARCHO-TYRANNY. THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY AND LIFE IS AT STAKE. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WILL NOT STOP JUST BY DRAGGING YOU THROUGH THE COURT/PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. THEY WOULD SOONER END YOUR LIFE THAN LET YOU STAND IN THEIR WAY. YOU WILL BE WELCOME IN RUSSIA. YOU WILL HAVE SAFE HAVEN, AND FROM HERE YOU CAN LEAD THE FIGHT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THE REBELLION AGAINST GLOBALISTS, AND FOR THE BRIGHT FUTURE OF THE PLANET.

SINCERELY YOURS,= VIKTOR BOUT, LUKOV PER., 9, MOSCOW, 107045-

С ПОДЛИННЫМ ВЕРНО.

МОСКВА 07.04.2023

построкова

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(This is strange because I read in an RT article yesterday the Duma was considering offering offering political an exchange of the WS journalist for Trump for political asylum in Russia. Perhaps their hearts are in the right place but it will only blow up the Russia hoax again. If he gets an offer from Xi than something is up. Kek)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11950687/Merchant-death-Viktor-Bout-urges-Trump-seek-asylum-Russia-life-DANGER.html

DeSantis joins Trump in threatening to defund the FBI and DOJ

The Florida governor also attacked Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who indicted Trump earlier this week, saying 'if we had somebody in Tampa that was trying to pursue that agenda, I'd yanked him from his position.'

DeSantis' tough talk comes as , Trump leads him in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. DeSantis has not officiallyto announce a bid.

Previously, DeSantis has hammered the legal system, including calling on Congress to defund the two powerful federal agencies, hinting that,if he were president, he wouldn't be afraid to slash their budgets.

Speaking at Hillsdale College in Michigan on Thursday, DeSantis said of the Justice Department and FBI: 'If you never hold them accountable through the legislative process, either through law or through budget, of course, power is going to accumulate there.'

He brushed back against arguments made by President Joe Biden and other leaders that the agencies needed to maintain their 'independence.'

'You've also had kind of a trope that alot of Republican presidentshave accepted over the years that DOJ and FBI are, quote, independent of the White House. And first of all, these people have guns, they can put you in jail, saying they're independent means they're unaccountable,' he said.

'No, they are executive branch agencies that report to the elected President of the United States,' he said, adding that a president should use their executive power 'to hold those agencies accountable.'

'You've had an executive branch that's not wanted to do anything to reel them inby holding them accountable and getting involved in what they're doing. And then I think you've had a Congress, which is just totally given up on using the purse strings and it's almost like these agencies just have a right to operate infinitum. When you send that signal over many decades, it's just human nature. They are going to abuse their power. I mean, the founders would have predicted that in a New York minute,' he concluded.(This is direct dig at Trump)

His argument aligns with ones made by Trump, who has ramped up his calls post-indictment, where he faces felony charges tied to hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.

DeSantis originally took a few digs at Trump - saying he didn't know what went into paying hush money to porn stars - but as polls showed Trump's popularity, theFlorida governor switched tactics, saying he would block New York if it attempted to extradite Trump (the state did not as the former president surrendered voluntarily).

Trump, on the morning after his indictment, called on Republicans in Congress to defund the DOJ and the FBI. The federal government is not involved in the New York case, but the Justice Department is pursuing two separate cases against the former president: one on the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago and another on his attempts to reverse the 2020 election results.

DeSantis also attacked Bragg on Friday,although he didn't mention him by name.

'You got the guy in Manhattan, but honestly, he's one of maybe a dozen or more across the country that get elected on an ideological agenda, usually with funding from people like George Soros, and they come in and they're trying to manipulate the law or advance a political agenda,' he said.

'If we had somebody in Tampa that was trying to pursue that agenda, I'd yanked him from his position,' he added.

(Really Desanctass why didn’t you warn him the FBI was raiding his home?)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11950321/DeSantis-joins-Trump-threatening-defund-FBI-DOJ.html

Republicans subpoena multiple major BANKS in their Biden family finances investigation

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor For Dailymail.com 00:32 BST 08 Apr 2023

House Oversight Committee Republicans are forging ahead in their probe of President Biden and key family membersamid howls from Democrats, this time demanding financial information from a host of financial institutions.

The subpoenas came to light during a week when committee staff met with former Joe Biden executive assistant Kathy Chung in a separate probe of the president's handling of classified documents.

It all has top Oversight Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin of raising alarm about Comer's 'misrepresentations' about the committees aggressive investigatory work.

Fox News confirmed the subpoenas to financial institutions, which includeBank of America, Cathay Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and and other HSBC USA, as did Comer.

The panel also subpoenaed former Hunter Biden associateMervyn Yan. That comes after the panel last month subpoenaed another Hunter associate, John R. Walker, who wired cash to Biden family members including Beau Biden widow Hallie Biden.

'Oversight Dems have again disclosed Committee’s subpoenas in a cheap attempt to thwart cooperationfrom other witnesses,' Comer tweeted Friday. 'No one should be fooled by Ranking Member Raskin’s games.We have the bank records, and the facts are not good for the Biden family.'

Raskin blasted Comer's conduct in a letter Thursday, where he accused of him trying to 'shield' information from the minority, in contravention of ordinary practice on the panel, which features partisan battles.

Comer hit back in a statement to Fox complaining about Raskin's disclosure.

'Ranking Member Raskin has again disclosed Committee’s subpoenas in a cheap attempt to thwart cooperation from other witnesses. Given his antics with the first bank subpoena, the American people and media should be askingwhat information Ranking Member Raskin is trying to hide this time,' he said – raising suspicion against the ranking member.

Raskin had written Comer that 'I have grown increasingly alarmed by your efforts to shield information from Committee Democrats, including information collected as part of your investigation into members of the President’s family. I am also troubled by your apparent public misrepresentations about certain investigative steps Committee Republicans have taken in this matter—a probe you have deemed your ‘top priority’ in the 118th Congress.;

Raskin, a constitutional lawyer who served as an impeachment manager during former President Trump's impeachment trial, demanded the GOP share a copy of Hunter Biden's infamous laptop, which is informing its probe.

'For the past ten months, you have refused to share with the Minority a copy of the ‘hard drive’ reportedly obtained from Hunter Biden’s missing laptop even as you repeatedly refer to it in letters and reports, and frequently invoke documents purportedly obtained from it. You have even used this information to seek the personal financial information of private citizens—dating as far back as January 2009—through the use of compulsory process,' he said.

Comer took a shot at Raskin in a statement to Axios, accusing him of 'playing lawyer for the Biden familyinstead of engaging in real oversight for the American people.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11950959/Republicans-subpoena-multiple-major-BANKS-Biden-family-finances-investigation.html

>>18660142

He’s lazy, Matt Gaetz put a hard copy of the drive in the congressional record months ago

Biden's former executive assistant- who Hunter forwarded for the job - is questioned in Congress over her role in President's classified docs scandal

By Geoff Earle, 19:22 BST 04 Apr 2023

Joe Biden's former executive assistant visited the Capitol Tuesday for closed door questioning in the House Republican probe of the president's handling of classified documents.

Kathy Chung, who oversaw the packing and shipping of Biden's documents in 2017 as he ended his tenure as vice president, appeared for a transcribed interview with congressional staff.

She came after the House Oversight Committee, chaired by Kentucky Republican James Comer, demanded in a sweeping letter she hand over10 years worthof documents and appear for questioning.

It comes amid a House Republican probe of documents marked classified at Biden's former Penn Biden office in D.C., as well as his Wilmington home and his Rehoboth, Delaware beach house. Special Counsel Robert Hur is also investigating after being tapped by Attorney General Merrick Garland.

'The Committee believes your proximity to Vice President Biden and role ashandlerof his personal matters gave you access not only to classified material he maintained after leaving the White House, but also to the Biden family´s business schemes,' Comer said in a letter to Chung dated Feb 4.

She arrived Tuesday morning, CNN reported, after her interview was scheduled weeks ago.

She has been revealed gotten her job on therecommendationof the president's sonHunter Biden, who refurbished Biden's classic Corvette, which is stored in the same Wilmington garage where documents marked classified were located.

'Hunter Biden recommended it. They had worked together atDepartment of Commerceyears ago,' a source told DailyMail.com in January. Hunter notified her of the opportunity, asked her if she was interested, and found out that she was. (When was Hunter employed at DoC, is that where he got all his ideas for illegal business?)

She works at the Pentagon.

According to a person familiar with the matter, Chung has turned over records related to the movement of documents from the White House to the Penn Biden Center, where Biden kept an office after he left the vice presidency in 2017 until shortly before he launched his 2020 presidential campaign in 2019. The person wasgranted anonymityto discuss the sensitive transfer of documents. (Was the this anonymous whistleblower that released the Nov documents?)

The committee had made a wide-ranging document request, including for Chung'scommunicationswith the Biden family dating back more than 10 years.

A Justice Department special counsel is already investigating how classified documents from Biden´s time as vice president and senator wound up in his home and former office - and whether any mishandling involved criminal intent or was unintentional. Biden´s personal lawyers disclosed in January that a small batch of documents with classified markings had been found weeks earlier in his former Washington office. They have since allowed FBI searches of multiple properties.

The most recent search occurred in mid-February at the University of Delaware, Biden's alma mater. In 2011, Biden gifted the school records from his time in the U.S. Senate, where he served for 36 years.

Neither the university nor the president's attorneys have revealed if any classified documents were found at the school. Under the terms of Biden´s gift, the records are to remainsealed until two years after he retiresfrom public life.

The discoveries that Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence were in possession of classified documents over the last year have brought new scrutiny to the rules around classified information and laid bare an uncomfortable truth: Policies meant to control the handling of the nation´s secrets arehaphazardlyenforced among top officials and rely almost wholly ongood faith.

It's also become increasingly common for presidents, vice presidents and even members of Congress to retain sensitive documents after leaving office, according to the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. (It may be common but its not legal for VPs and Congress to have them)

'Thearchivisttold us that there were80 membersof Congress’ who turned out to have classified material in their records, Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., told reporters Wednesday about a briefing he received from the National Archives. 'How that happens is beyond me.'

(So why raid Trump, and why weren’t VPs & congress charged with crimes since they don’t have Executive Privilege to declassify anything?)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11938127/Bidens-former-executive-assistant-arrives-Congress-questioned.html

Crimea's beaches are covered with trenches and tank traps

By Will Stewart and Milo Pope 12:27 BST 08 Apr 2023

Barricades and trenches have been built on beaches and close to key access routes in Crimea on a massive scale as Vladimir is scared of losing the peninsula he annexed in 2014.

The level of fear is clear from the abundance of defences to stop a sea or land assault.

Dragon's teeth tank trapshave been placed at strategic Ak-Monai beside the Taurida highway by occupying Russians to stop a Ukrainian bid to grab back the peninsula Putin took in 2014.

Putin has accepted he must decimate the region's huge tourism industry this summer to hold it against a possible Ukrainian advance as part of an expected counteroffensive.

The scale of the operation is seen on both satellite images and ground level pictures.

Beaches - one popular with both Russian and Ukrainian tourists as a favourite and glamorous summer playground - have been rendered virtually unusable, wiping out the Summer 2023 season. Many will be totally empty.

The northern coastlines of Crimea are being defended most acutely amid the clearest signs Putin's military commanders see the peninsula as vulnerable.Defensive artillery positionshave been established.

This comes after amissile fired from Ukrainian-held territory was shot down over the Black Sea town of Feodosia, Crimea,this morning.

'A missile launched from Ukraine was shot down over Feodosia,' Sergei Aksyonov said on Telegram, without providing any detail on the kind of projectile in question.

Russia's TASS news agency quoted an adviser to Aksyonov, Oleg Kryuchkov, as saying that debris had fallen in a Crimean town, but no damage or casualties had been reported.

Russian-installed officials in Crimea have previously accused Ukrainian forces of drone attacks, though Kyiv has typically refrained from claiming responsibility.

Russia in late March said it had shot down aU.S.-supplied GLSDB guided smart bombfired by Ukrainian forces for the first time, without disclosing where.

Earlier this week, Ukraine said it might negotiate with Russia on Crimea, but only if it advances to the borders of the peninsula, a massive advance from its current positions.

For Putin the loss would be devastating, perhaps a terminal blow, and is seen as unthinkable in Moscow.

Hardline chairman of Russian parliament's international affairs committee Leonid Slutsky said: 'The status of Crimea is not subject to discussion at all.

'It's an issue that has been decided following the 2014 referendum and has been enshrined in the Russian constitution.The peninsula is forever an inseparable part of Russia.'

He claimed Kyiv had 'neither the strength nor resources' to grab back Crimea. Yan Gagin, an advisor to the annexed authorities in Donetsk People's Republic, dismissed Ukraine's hopes of reaching Crimea as 'empty talk which means absolutely nothing'.

Yet the defences indicate Russia is deeply worried. There are two land routes into Crimea from Ukraine - now both reinforced by new recently-built defences.Some beaches have been mined, according to Ukrainian sources.

The dictator is facing imminent economic carnage in the annexed peninsula's once money-spinning vacation industry as people refuse to heed official calls to make 'patriotic bookings' this summer.

Almost every beach in the occupied territory has now - or will have - giant barricades, with Ukraine claiming that they are also mined by the Russians.

Putin sees holiday jewel Crimea's illegal annexation in 2014 as one of his greatest achievements, yet there is now paranoia that Ukraine could use Western weapons to grab back a territory larger than Wales.

Bookings are now 80 per cent down on last year, which, in turn, was 30 per cent below pre-war levels, with hoteliers demanding state bailouts to compensate them for the cost of Putin's war.

Tourists to the Black Sea have been spooked by the October 2022 bomb attack on Putin's Kerch Strait bridge linking Crimea to Russia, and missile strikes on military airfields.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11951857/Crimeas-beaches-covered-trenches-tank-traps.html

>>18660306

8 Apr, 2023 11:42

Ukrainian missile downed over Crimea – governor

The projectile, which was destroyed over the town of Feodosia, inflicted no casualties or damage, a local official said

Russian air defenses have shot down a Ukrainian missile over Crimea, local authorities said on Saturday, adding that the strike did not result in any casualties or damage to infrastructure.

In a Telegram post, Sergey Aksenov, the head of the Republic of Crimea, said “a missilelaunched from Ukraine’s side” had been destroyed over the coastal town of Feodosia in the southeastern part of the peninsula.

Later, Oleg Kryuchkov, a senior adviser to Aksenov, issued an update on the incident, claiming that “the debris of a Ukrainian missile downed by air defenses fell in one of the Crimean settlements. There are no casualties or destruction.”

Local media released photos showing a large cloud of smoke, which was visible from several kilometers away, rising from the location where the projectile apparently landed. They also published pictures of what looked like debris from the missile.

Amid the ongoing Ukraine conflict, Crimea, whichhosts major Russian naval facilities, has repeatedly become the target of Kiev’s strikes. Last month, local authorities said Russian air defenses had shot down several Ukrainian drones over the town of Dzhankoy, with one person injured during the raid. The aircraft debris also damaged a house and a shop in the area, they added.

The peninsula, which overwhelmingly voted to become part of Russia in 2014 after a Western-backed coup in Kiev, could also become the target of apotential Ukrainian spring counteroffensive, according to Ukrainian officials. Mikhail Podoliak, a senior aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, claimed earlier this week that Kiev could retake Crimea within seven months, adding that it “must eradicate everything Russian” on the peninsula.

Last month, however, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev warned that any attempt by Kiev to seize Crimea could warrant the deployment of “all means of protection,”including Moscow’s nuclear assets.

https://www.rt.com/russia/574397-ukrainian-missile-downed-crimea/

8 Apr, 2023 08:00

Failed Ukrainian nuclear plant attack revealed – The Times

An elite Ukrainian force tried to seize the Zaporozhye NPP last autumn, the newspaper’s sources said

A “highly dangerous” Ukrainian operation to capture the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant last year ended in failure due to heavy Russian resistance, The Times reported on Friday, citing sources.

According to Kiev’s military personnel interviewed by the British newspaper, the attack involved some600 elite Ukrainian soldierswho tried to cross the Dnieper River on October 19 by boat.

The operation hinged on the presumption that Moscow’s troops would not be able to fire artillery so close to the nuclear power plant, which is the largest in Europe, one officer told The Times.

However, the paper’s sources said the team met unexpected resistance. Moscow’s forces had “mined everything” and “even pulled up tanks and artillery” to fire on Kiev’s forces while they were on the water, the officer added.

The assault was supported by Ukrainian artillery, including US-madeHIMARSsystems, but Russian resistance resulted in only a fraction of the Ukrainian force coming ashore. After athree-hour firefighton the outskirts of Energodar, where the plant is located, the Ukrainian soldiers were forced to retreat, the report says.

Some seniorUkrainian officialsviewed the offensive as controversial, with the president of Ukraine’s nuclear operator Energoatom, Pyotr Kotin, telling The Times: “it is very dangerousto do such things near nuclear material. Any damage will bring radiation to the people and to the whole world.”

The report corroborates a Russian Defense Ministry statement at the time claiming that on October 19 Kiev’s forces attempted – without success – to mount an amphibious operation in the area, involving up to two Ukrainian companies and a total of 37 boats. The military claimed Ukraine lost over 90 soldiers in the operation.

Russia and Ukraine have repeatedly accused each other of shelling the Zaporozhye NPP, which has been under Moscow’s control since last February. Russian officials have on numerous occasions warned that Kiev’s attacks could trigger a nuclear disaster.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has called on both parties to create a safe zone around the facility, but the negotiations on the matter have failed to achieve a breakthrough.

In late March, Rafael Grossi, the nuclear watchdog’s chief, said the idea was no longer being considered. Instead of establishing a safe zone, the IAEA now wants Kiev and Moscow to promise not to target the plant, or use it for staging attacks.

(Finally a mainstream paper in UK reveal what Russia reported last year)

https://www.rt.com/russia/574393-ukraine-assault-nuclear-plant/

8 Apr, 2023 07:39

Tesla employees shared sensitive images recorded by cars – Reuters

Some pictures were turned into memes and distributed through internal chats, former workers told the agency

Tesla workers shared “highly invasive” images and videosrecorded by customers’ electric cars, making fun of them on internal chat groups, several former employees of Elon Musk’s company have told Reuters.

The electric-car manufacturer obtains consent from its clients to collect data from vehicles in order to improve its self-driving technology. However, the company assures owners that the whole system is “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy,” the agency pointed out in its report on Thursday.

According to nine former workers who talked to the agency, groups ofemployees shared private footageof customers in Tesla’s internal one-on-onechatsbetween 2019 and 2022.

One of the clips in question captured a man approaching his electric car while he was completely naked, one of the sources said.

Others featured crashes and road-rage incidents. One particular video of a Tesla hitting a child on a bike in a residential area spread around the company’s office in San Mateo, California “like wildfire,” an ex-employee claimed.

“I’m bothered by it because the people who buy the car, I don’t think they know thattheir privacy is, like, not respected… We could see them doing laundry and really intimate things. We could see their kids,” another former worker told the agency.

Seven former employees also told Reuters that the software they used at work allowed them tosee the location where the photo or video was made, despite Tesla assuring its customers that “camera recordings remain anonymous and are not linked to you or your vehicle.”

The agency noted that it could not obtain any of the pictures or clips described by its sources, who said they were all deleted. Some former employees also told the journalists that they had only seen private data being shared for legitimate purposes, such as seeking assistance for colleagues. Tesla did not respond when approached for comment on the issue by Reuters.

(So Dr. Shiva is right, no privacy no freedom of speech.)

https://www.rt.com/news/574392-tesla-private-data-musk/

>>18660317

Fuck off Nike, is that kind and inclusive enough. Money whores!

>>18660241

Thx anon

>>18660287

Excellent, we all know SeeEyeAye is imbedded in every news outlet. Good to know

>>18660287

notable

>>18660610

No one funded by the IC and DOD is transparent, accommodating and honest. He does what he’s told by US and CCP

8 Apr, 2023 12:29

Hidden sanctions on Russian grain could spark global famine – official

Western businesses have been forced to reject Russian imports despite the official positions of governments, a grain union says

Russian grain exporters have been hit byindirect sanctions, as Western businesses were unable toprovide services criticalto the industry, the head of the Russian Union of Grain Exporters has said in an interview with RT.

Eduard Zernin explained that even though grain is exempt from anti-Russia sanctions imposed by Western powers, firms located or registered in those countries were systemically refusing to work with Russian suppliers.

“Among them arebanking institutionsof this or that country that have been rejecting payments, orvesselsflying the flag of this or that country that suddenly stopped entering Russian ports despite all the valid licenses,”Zernin said. “We have seen a wave of individual initiatives, the scale of which was massive.”

Russia accounts for more than20% of the world’s grain shipments, the official noted, adding that the latest attempts “to erase or cancel Russian produce from global markets has failed,” as the elimination of such a prodigious amount of supplies would inevitably trigger a global food crisis.

“Direct pressure is impossible, but if we face another upsurge in disguised sanctions targeting shipments of Russian grain, famine may be inevitable,” he warned.

According to Zernin, the hidden sanctions applied to Russian exporters last year sent prices for wheat surging from $300 to $450 per ton.

He added that prices began declining only when those restrictions were eased, after the Russian Union of Grain Exporters raised concerns on the international level, having alerted the United Nations to the issue.

“We have faced and are still facing challenges related to banking operations,” Zerin said. “We managed to resolve nearly all the issues relating to fleets, partly arising from increased freight tariffs.”

According to the head of the union, Russian grain exporters have also beencut off from the legal regulationplatform as part of Western restrictions.

“As a result, we are not able to resolve any legal disputes at specialised arbitration platforms,” he said.

Zernin noted that the Russian Union of Grain Exporters has had to establish direct contacts with major importers of agricultural produce, to reduce the impact of sanctions.

“We have defined our focus markets, such as the Middle East and North African countries, the world’s biggest grain consumers, we have established direct ties with them, and developed new strategies for trading with every nation separately,” he explained.

According to the official, Russian exporters now work either under Russian legislation or follow the requirements of domestic laws of partners, staying out of global legislative framework.

https://www.rt.com/business/574395-russia-grain-exports-hidden-sanctions/

The ultimate cancel culture.

>>18660800

WTF is wrong with them, just like trying to stop or limit lobster traps. Are they worried we won’t get mRNA or do they want to starve us to death or both

>>18660800

This isnotable