▲ 1043 ▼ The price of rice is skyrocketing, and it's pushing millions more people towards starvation (www.abc.net.au) submitted 3 years ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml 182 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[+] yoz@aussie.zone 10 points 3 years ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] sfgifz@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] yoz@aussie.zone 3 points 3 years ago So true. permalink fedilink source parent [–] nestEggParrot@lemmy.sdf.org 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sfgifz@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] yoz@aussie.zone 3 points 3 years ago So true. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nestEggParrot@lemmy.sdf.org 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. permalink fedilink source parent