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This is CBS, I'm the world.

I'm John Bachelors.

I welcome Colonel Jeff McCawson, United States Army retired, CBS news, Dickinson College visiting professor and CEO of Diamond Six leadership and strategy.

The war in Ukraine and its attendant contests, the headlines tell some of the story of the war growing globally.

For example, Kim Jong-un meets Russia's defense minister as Putin-Wu's Pyongyang.

Sergey Shogo hails North Korea's, quote, most powerful military in the world as he pledges closer ties to the nuclear regime.

Also, Russia war latest Putin confirms intensified Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Also, the British defense minister insists Ukraine's counteroffensive is not failing.

It's more, but I welcome Jeff to comment first on a driving story that is part of the war growing outside of the combat zone.

That is the grain deal collapse in these last days.

An anecdotal report that the Russian Black Sea fleet is either in place to blockade any grain moving out of the Black Sea basin from Ukraine, from Romania, from Bulgaria, any grain.

The intention here is Moscow to use a famine in North Africa and other parts of the globe in order to advance its case.

Jeff, a very good evening to you. The grain deal was one piece of diplomacy success in the first year of the war.

Now it's been suspended. It's gone. Russia has demands as to what it must have in order to regain the grain deal.

But in any event at this point, it looks like a weapon. Do you read it that way? Is this something that Russia is capable of blockading and putting people in starvation? Good evening to you.

Being you, John, sadly, sadly, the answer that is absolutely yes. There's no doubt about it. The Black Sea fleet can bottle up those Ukrainian ports, not only physically with their ships, but also by the threats to shipping, which will drive up insurance costs for maritime activity to astronomical levels.

And furthermore, by putting as they are doing intensified areas of sea mines in the waters off of Ukrainian ports, which will stop all activity.

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