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Agriculture as a weapon
Geopolitical expert Frank Kelly with Fulcrum Macro was a featured speaker during the Iowa Farm Bureau Economic Summit in Ankeny Friday. He said there are no signs the Russia Ukraine War will be over soon, and he’s concerned Russian president Vladimir Putin will get more desperate.
“Big question I get is ‘Is he going to use nukes?’ I don’t think he’s going to use nukes.”
But he says Putin could ramp up attacks on Ukraine’s agriculture sector, which Africa depends heavily on.
“I can see Putin creating a mass starvation event to pressure Europe. (Africans) are all going to come up north and they’re all going to try to get into Europe, and Putin can flip that switch. That could be worse than a nuclear weapon, agriculture as a weapon.”
