Ukraine Grain Export

The bbc news announced that grain exports are once again able to leave ukraine . They also said ukraine was now the bread basket of the world . What a sad situation . I remember when Africa in the 60s and 70s was considered the bread basket of the world , before it became suddenly politically correct to hand it back to black governments to abuse and turn into a continent starving for lack of farm management . I wonder if they will admit they well and truly shot themselves in the feet and did not do african countries any favours . Now the poor african is starving to death and being abused and neglected by their own greedy and corrupt governments . Well done world governments I wonder how history will see it , and were supposed to believe our governments know what their doing little proof of that . Maybe the should start manufacturing Noddy Badges for all the idiotic world governments and their politically correct idiocy .

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

August 4th: First ship, loaded with corn, now on her way to Tripoli having passed Turkish, UN, Russian and Ukrainian inspection yesterday.

Noting the significance of your nick-name, I would ask not blaming the former Colonial governments for the nations they invented failing years after independence, provided they had handed the countries back in full working order they thought would thrive. (Some, notably France, did not care about that.)

The Africans naturally wanted to stand on their own two feet on what is undeniably their own territory, although divided by borders invented by the European settlers, not their own cultures. Once on their own feet though, if their own agriculture or other industries later collapsed as it has in some, the locals allowed that to happen.

Some ran themselves very well for long after independence, but now suffer from corruption, internecine fighting, insurgency and other domestic evils. Or became taken over later by sheer despots with no idea how to administer a country - Zimbabwe's President Mugabe being perhaps the prime example.

To be fair though, some of those countries are also endangered by self-serving external interests: e.g. the social neglect and corruption around Western oil companies in Nigeria (encouraging bandits like Bokul Harun); the new imperialism by Russia (USSR and RF) and China more widely.