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.

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.

  • flyingsquirrel
    10613·
    11 months ago

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

    • Zeroxxx@lemm.ee
      1367·
      11 months 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
        324·
        11 months 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
          1043·
          11 months ago

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

          LOL

              • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
                14·
                11 months 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.

                • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  32·
                  11 months 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
            14·
            11 months ago

            yes, your point being?

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

      • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zone
        111·
        11 months 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
          8·
          11 months 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.

        • nestEggParrot@lemmy.sdf.org
          3·
          11 months 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.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml
        494·
        11 months ago

        This reads like an ironic shitpost. No one can seriously believe that one person saying mean things can rationalize an invasion that’s killing thousands and hurtsling food security for millions.

        • OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlM
          118·
          11 months ago

          Tbf “Asians are subhuman” is what the nazis used to justify killing millions of Russians, Ukrainians, and other USSR ethnicities. Millions of ukrainian red army soldiers are rolling in their graves.

          • Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml
            106·
            11 months ago

            1. I can’t find one source for this that doesn’t come back to elrisala.

            2. Even if this story is true, one asshole doesn’t justify the genocide that Russia is committing in Ukraine.

            3. Even if this story is true, it happened long after Russia started their “special military operation” and can’t be used to justify it.

          • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
            113·
            11 months ago

            I can point you towards many racist political figures throughout history who weren’t fascist. Racist is not the same as fascist. Sure, fascism usually requires creating an in group and an out group, but it’s also a lot more than that and needs to be larger than one person. Even if this person is a fascist, it still doesn’t even mean anything. He doesn’t have the political power to do anything fascist with.