Why Ukraine grain deal ended.

 WEST NEVER UPHELD ITS COMMITMENT TO DEAL

SEEMS LIKE THE POLITICS IS WORTH MORE THAN THE GRAIN

In July 2022, Erdogan of Turkey helped negotiate a deal between the UN,Turkey, Russia and Ukraine that would provide for a humanitarian shipping corridor that would insure the safe export of grain from Ukraine. This deal also allowed Russia to also export grain and fertilizer through the Black sea. This deal was not extended last week because the west failed to implement the necessary provisions that would allow Russian grain and fertilizer to be exported, most of it to the middle east and Africa.

Besides not allowing Russian grain and fertilizer, Ukraine used the port area of Odessa, where this grain is stored and loaded, as as a staging area to attack Crimea. These are undisputed facts.

The other accusations are that Ukraine also used these ships to transport military supplies into Ukraine.

It is also suspected that the latest attack on the Kerch bridge was assisted by one of these ships.

While the accusations of  the use of the ships for military purposes may not at this time be proven, the fact that the west never intended to live up to their part of the deal to allow Russian export of grain and fertilizer is clear.

Most of the Ukrainian grain in processed in Turkey and then exported to Europe. Most of the Russian grain and essential fertilizer was destined for the middle east and Africa. The loss of these grain exports will have serious consequences for food prices and political stability in many parts of the world.

Of course, the western press has made their coordinated statement that it is Russia, now using food as a weapon, just as when the U.S. insisted on stopping the European import of energy from Russia and then blamed Russia for using energy as a weapon.

So, it is clear again that political advantage and narrative is more important than the lives and well being of those not part of this conflict. The real losers will be the people of Europe, the middle east and Africa, just collateral damage in the global political conflict.