If we can just keep Russian kids from getting bananas, Ukraine will win the war. From Declan Hayes at strategic-culture.org:
The world is at a critical inflection point as it pits the children of Ecuador, Paraguay, Russia, China, Vietnam, Gaza, the Philippines and Syria against Del Monte, Hunter Biden and Liz Truss in a fight to the death with only one winner.
As fierce fighting continues in Ukraine and British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss determines to arm Taiwan to fight China, Ecuadorian bananas have found themselves smack in the center of NATO’s campaign to crush Russia. The key to getting Russia to hoist the white flag and surrender her bountiful resources to the Anglo American alliance is, it seems, not only to deprive Russia of Ecuador’s bananas but to ensure the Russians cannot source their banana supply elsewhere.
If truth has been the first casualty of NATO’s Ukrainian war Ecuador, it seems, must be the second. In 2021, Ecuador received $706 million for exporting bananas to Russia, $142 million for shrimp, $99 million for flowers, $28 million for fish, and $17 million for coffee. Russia accounted for 20% (about 85 million boxes) of the total volume of Ecuador’s exported bananas. Now, as there is nowhere to sell and store them, those 85 million boxes, like so much of Latin America’s other embargoed produce, must be destroyed on Uncle Sam’s ignorant orders.
Ecuador is not NATO’s only innocent victim. Paraguay, one of Latin America poorest countries, was a major exporter of cattle meat to Russia; in 2021, it exported 79,213 tons of cattle meat to Russia, for which Paraguay received $314 million, chicken feed to NATO but critical foreign currency to Paraguay.
