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Squeezing Russian Wheat; Save the Rats; Rollins Delayed

Squeezing Russia with WheatEurope is afraid that Donald Trump is ready to capitulate to Vladimir Putin next week when he becomes president. But Trump has appointed a fair number of geopolitical hawks to his team. He may see the war as senseless, but he doesn’t want to be perceived as a loser. Russia’s main revenues funding the war come from fossil fuels and food exports, mostly wheat. U.S. oil production increased under Joe Biden and sanctions are now squeezing the use of ghost ships to move Russian oil. The price of Brent crude has now fallen 30 percent since the Russian invasion and Donald Trump says he is going to increase U.S. energy production. Russia’s war-based economy is said to be a house of cards with inflation spiking and in...

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