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Michael Berenstam from the Hoover Institution joins to comment on the sanctions regime directed against the predator state Russia and

what is fresh, what works and what doesn't work.

Michael, a very good evening to you.

You tell me the big crisis for Russia this week is that their assault on food

on grain and soil and corn coming out of the Black Sea, their assault has failed.

What's happened?

Well, what's happened is that the Ukrainians

with their successful military attacks on the Russian, major Russian vessels forced the entire Russian Black Sea fleet to move from the

south and west of the Black Sea to the east to the Russia proper. And so now the Black Sea routes which were under Russian attacks in

2020 and in 2023 are now free and on the coastline from Ukraine to Bulgaria, Romania

to the streets.

Ukrainian ships are now going full, loaded with Ukrainian grain, going to the world market.

And so the food crisis, which was a real crisis under the threat of starvation for poor countries, especially in Africa, it is over for

military reasons because the Russians refused in 2023, they refused to extend the oil deal of 2022.

Excuse me, I misspoke.

The Green Deal.

The Green Deal was that the Russians would allow Ukrainian grain to ship and in exchange some of their

sanctions some of the sanctions on their banks will be lifted and then they you had

new demands blackmailing the world with starvation and women and poor countries.

Now the food crisis is over and the grain deal is no longer necessary.

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