The pseudonymous Sundance who writes at The Conservative Treehouse criticizes President Biden for blaming the coming food shortage on Putin and the Russians. His (?) point is that many things have caused the food shortage, and in a complex world that is almost always true.
However, the major cause of a shortage of wheat is the Russian attack on Ukraine's south coast which has cut off their wheat exports, some of the largest in the world. Most of that wheat moves by ship and the Russian navy has blockaded the Ukraine ports. In normal years Ukrainian wheat feeds a lot of poor folk in the Middle East and Africa, not this year.
We are unlikely to experience food shortages in the U.S. except for odd shortages caused by government meddling like the infant formula mix. We'll experience higher prices but in places where people are lucky to earn $1 a day higher prices equal skipped meals, famine, and perhaps death.
There are plenty of mistakes for which to legitimately criticize President Biden, but the world wheat shortage shouldn't be one of them. That really is on the Russians.
