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The price of rice is skyrocketing, and it's pushing millions more people towards starvation (www.abc.net.au)
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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.

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[+] -53 points 3 years ago (3 children)

India, Indonesia and the rest of non alignment countries do not need to enter this war set up by the West.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [+] -33 points 3 years ago (5 children)

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

    LOL

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Pssst, you're allowed to criticize more than 1 country

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  • [+] -13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Is that why NATO and the EU cannot be baddies?

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years 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.

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  • [+] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years 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.

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