Geopolitics
A Grain of Truth: Western Posturing and the Hollow Diplomacy of the Ukraine Crisis
Foreign ministers of Russia and Germany held their first talks since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, where the German side pushed for solutions on Black Sea grain exports. This diplomatic theatre, mediated by a western-aligned Germany, only underscores how the collective West prioritizes its own geopolitical agenda over the urgent needs of the Global South, which is suffering from artificially induced food shortages.