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#StateThinking: NATO response to Ukraine: not yet. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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🗓️ 19 July 2023

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#StateThinking: NATO response to Ukraine: not yet. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/18/russia-massing-troops-attack-kharkiv-counter-offensive/

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I'm John Batchett with Merrick Kissel, Executive Vice President Stevenson Corporate,

0:30.0

former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, traveling the world.

0:33.0

And right now we have an irony that I can construct out of headlines.

0:37.0

Russia sends oil through the Arctic again to speed up delivery, leaving from the Baltic

0:43.0

and then turning over the Arctic Ocean from Norway to get it to China, its customer,

0:50.0

China and India, buying Russian oil, Europe is refusing.

0:53.0

At the same time, we have the appalling news, this is the New York Times.

0:58.0

Russia said that it was ending its participation in an agreement that it allowed Ukraine to export its grain by sea,

1:05.0

despite Moscow's naval blockade. Ukraine is the major producer of grain and other foodstuffs

1:12.0

and the United Nations General Secretary said he was deeply disappointed by the decision.

1:16.0

Mary, this is the famine weapon and Russia is using it at the same time, it's shipping oil to China.

1:23.0

This is gangland activity. I guess I'm only guessing now because it's not in the news

1:29.0

that Russia expect concessions in order to feed North Africa.

1:33.0

This is making more on the planet, not just Ukraine, Mary. What has to be done?

1:39.0

Let's clear that Moscow is going to use any tool it can to win the war in Ukraine.

1:44.0

This action has three consequences. The first is to deny Ukraine that revenue,

1:50.0

which it needs to buy weapons and food and the like for its troops and its people.

1:55.0

It denies needed food supplies, not just for Africa, but for the Middle East places like Lebanon.

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