<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Aaron Maté from Aaron Mate <<a href="mailto:mate@substack.com" class="">mate@substack.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">In Ukraine, a proxy war on the planet</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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line-height: 1.16em; margin: 8px 0px;">As the Ukraine crisis causes global havoc, US officials won't negotiate with Russia to end the fighting -- and are even willing to "countenance" mounting hunger as a result.</h3><table class="meta-author-wrap with-photo" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><tbody class=""><tr class="meta-author-wrap-row"><td class=""><div class="user-head " style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/2da4c4c3-7351-4af4-97fb-fd3407430328?u=291682" class=""><div class="profile-img-wrap" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; position: relative;"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_90,h_90,c_fill,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b2a5055-caa2-4d5c-a239-48697afdb3f0_2613x3280.jpeg" height="45" width="45" alt="" style="border-radius: 50%; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 45px; max-width: 550px; vertical-align: middle; 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height: auto; margin: 0px auto; vertical-align: middle; border: none !important; max-width: 100%; width: auto !important;"></a></td><td style="text-align: center;" class=""></td></tr></tbody></table><figcaption class="image-caption" style="color: rgb(118, 118, 118); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: center;">(Marine Corps Cpl. Jailine Alicea-Santiago /<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://media.defense.gov/" class="">media.defense.gov</a>)</figcaption></figure></div><p style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><span class="">In 2015, one year after a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/12b00a48-6be2-4cfe-9ba6-fb8c43a8a74a?u=291682" rel="" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: underline;" class="">US-backed coup ushered in a US-friendly, far-right-dominated government</a><span class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in Kiev, University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/054af14f-b5c2-4ff2-8101-c5acfee46326?u=291682" rel="" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: underline;" class="">issued a stark warning</a><span class="">. "The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path," he said. "And the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked."</span></p><p style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Mearsheimer's cause for concern was what he identified as a US-led campaign to convert Ukraine into a NATO proxy on Russia's border. The events since have proved him to be both tragically prescient, and understated.</p><p style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><span class="">In using Ukraine to "fight Russia over there", as Adam Schiff<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/336b9299-2652-4502-ac2e-604c5a8d537b?u=291682" rel="" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: underline;" class="">put it in January 2020</a><span class="">, the US has not only sacrificed countless Ukrainian lives. Four months into Russia's invasion, the Biden administration is signaling its willingness to sacrifice the rest of the planet, particularly the most vulnerable areas.</span></p><div class="subscribe-widget is-signed-up" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><p class="button-wrapper" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/2/eyJlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9tYXRlLnN1YnN0YWNrLmNvbS9zdWJzY3JpYmU_dG9rZW49ZXlKMWMyVnlYMmxrSWpveU9URTJPRElzSW1saGRDSTZNVFkxTnprNE5URTBOU3dpWlhod0lqb3hOall3TlRjM01UUTFMQ0pwYzNNaU9pSndkV0l0TVRBd01URTRJaXdpYzNWaUlqb2lZMmhsWTJ0dmRYUWlmUS55YVJlalhrOS1oUF9sblJVMFZ2TVZYN2UwZE9weDVZcU1GaTVhdmliVTFFJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9cG9zdCIsInAiOjY0Mjc1NjAzLCJzIjoxMDAxMTgsImYiOnRydWUsInUiOjI5MTY4MiwiaWF0IjoxNjU3OTg1MTQ1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMCIsInN1YiI6ImxpbmstcmVkaXJlY3QifQ.8zvnNgF1htQrVe42Kh_gSfCId52rJr575igF1D8a5C8?&utm_medium=email&utm_source=subscribe-widget&utm_content=64275603" class="button primary subscribe-btn" style="background-color: rgb(163, 58, 203); border: none; border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; height: auto; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; outline: none; padding: 12px 20px; text-align: center; white-space: nowrap; color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;" class="">Subscribe now</span></a></p></div><p style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><span class="">In an article headlined<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/1a4bfb75-6ec8-48b6-a6f8-1118711092b4?u=291682" rel="" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: underline;" class="">"Ukraine War Pushes Millions of the World’s Poorest Toward Starvation,"</a><span class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the Wall Street Journal summarizes the impact of the Ukraine war on global hunger:</span></p><p style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><em class=""><span class="">The World Food Program says that increases in the cost of food and fuel since March have pushed an additional 47 million people into </span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/19588737-6c2e-428c-b51d-5c465ecb5e9f?u=291682" rel="" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: underline;" class="">acute food insecurity</a><span class="">, when a person is no longer able to consume enough calories to sustain her life and livelihood, taking the total to 345 million people world-wide. Of those, some 50 million are living on the edge of famine.</span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><span class="">In the energy crisis that has followed Russia's invasion, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/8095e207-b1ec-4d73-aca0-3116ace6055f?u=291682" rel="" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: underline;" class="">New York Times adds</a><span class="">, "the poorest and most vulnerable" have felt "the harshest effects." In Asia and Africa, the International Energy Agency recently warned that "higher energy prices have meant an additional 90 million people in Asia and Africa do not have access to electricity."</span></p><p style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><span class="">By invading Ukraine rather than exhausting all diplomatic solutions, Russia bears obvious responsibility for the crisis. Ukraine’s grain exports, which feed multiple countries, have plummeted. Russia has denied blocking Ukrainian grain, instead faulting Kiev's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/005d93e8-471b-4956-aebe-ea3c8560561d?u=291682" rel="" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: underline;" class="">extensive mining of</a><span class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>its Black Sea ports. Ukraine has refused to de-mine those ports on self-defense grounds, claiming that doing so could invite further Russian incursions. Turkey, which has been brokering talks between the two sides, has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/df31a41b-2b84-428f-ad99-588d7221fff2?u=291682" rel="" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: underline;" class="">just announced a pending deal to break the impasse</a><span class="">.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><span class="">But even if the Turkey-backed deal is implemented, a major cause of the food crisis will remain. The US-led sanctions regime against Russia has blocked international payments for Russian goods and necessary export licenses, including food shipments. As<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/24c3ee62-d7ca-4caf-b55c-ea40d8e8f0b9?u=291682" rel="" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: underline;" class="">the New York Times notes</a><span class="">, "[s]oaring fertilizer prices, driven by sanctions on Russia and Belarus, along with high global energy prices, are broadening the scope of food shortages by making it more expensive to produce and transport food around the world."</span></p><p style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><span class="">The head of the African Union, Macky Sall, has linked US sanctions to the continent's food shortages. "Anti-Russia sanctions have made this situation worse and now we do not have access to grain from Russia, primarily to wheat," Sall<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/aec0617b-adea-482f-b4d6-aad0881120e4?u=291682" rel="" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: underline;" class="">warned in June</a><span class="">. "And, most importantly, we do not have access to fertilizer. The situation was bad and now it has become worse, creating a threat to food security in Africa."</span></p><p style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Rather than seek a diplomatic solution in Ukraine that could end the war and its worldwide deprivations, the US has shunned talks with Russia and made clear that it is even willing to tolerate global starvation.</p><p style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><span class="">Citing interviews with the White House, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/d2993728-3451-495d-b966-1373ed404f67?u=291682" rel="" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Washington Post reports</a><span class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that Biden "officials have described the stakes of ensuring Russia cannot swallow up Ukraine — an outcome officials believe could embolden Putin to invade other neighbors or even strike out at NATO members —as so high<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em class="">that the administration is willing to countenance even a global recession and mounting hunger</em><span class="">." (emphasis added)</span></p><div style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;" class="">Left unquestioned is why a group of officials in Washington have arrogated themselves the right to "countenance" a global recession and mounting hunger – including pushing millions toward famine -- on behalf of the rest of the planet...</div></div></div><div class="paywall paywall-white-background" style="-webkit-user-select: none; background-color: white; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(163, 58, 203); color: rgb(26, 26, 26); cursor: default; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 32px 24px 16px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><h2 class="paywall-title" style="font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px auto 6px; 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