Russia Warning It Is Prepared To Use Food as a Weapon, Stirring the Ghosts of the Holodomor
Soviet propaganda depicted peasants as counterrevolutionaries who hoarded food as their socialist comrades starved –– and so they became targets.
Old tactics, it seems, die hard. The allusion — threat, really — by the deputy director of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, to Moscow’s weaponization of food in its war in Ukraine certainly ups the ante.
“It turns out food is our weapon,” Mr. Medvedev warned on his Telegram channel Friday. “Quiet but ominous.” Referring to Russia’s $37 billion in agricultural exports, Mr. Medvedev continued: “We will supply food and crops only to our friends.”
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