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Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by f6v on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:52AM (#35628867)
The sanctions were supposed to sever the ties between Russia and the EU. That worked perfectly. Same as the refugee crisis. The two most active supporters of Ukraine(USA and UK) take almost no refugees from Ukraine. It’s the EU that suffers from having to support them.
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Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by qbasic_forever on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:00AM (#35628971)
What? The US has taken an enormous amount of Ukraine refugees: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/us-admits-27100...

271,000! That's over double their goal of 100k! They explicitly got rid of refugee restrictions put in place at the start of the pandemic so they could let in Ukraine refugees.

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Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by f6v on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:55PM (#35633216)
Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia combined took twice more than that. 271k is nothing for US given their role in the conflict.
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Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by qbasic_forever on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:12PM (#35633392)
Those countries are next door to Ukraine, a refugee can literally walk to them vs. someone paying for a plane flight to the US. Of course neighboring countries will have more refugees...
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Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by f6v on Friday April 21, 2023 @02:19AM (#35650328)
A refugee can pay literally 200 EUR and fly to US from Warsaw. I assure you many paid up to two orders of magnitude more just to flee the county.

It’s about the local laws put in place. The EU takes refugees with almost no preconditions. Maybe that’s why the EU leaders try to come up with a peace plan once in a while, unlike UK or US.

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Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by ImPostingOnHN on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:45PM (#35633701)
"given their role in the conflict" is pretty ambiguous, if you're referring to russia's war on, and latest genocide of, Ukraine

could you elaborate on what role you're speaking of, and why you personally think it makes the admittances below your standards?

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Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by f6v on Thursday April 20, 2023 @02:04PM (#35643805)
Go bait somewhere else, mate. Your question has nothing to do with the topic we’re discussing.
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Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by ImPostingOnHN on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:21PM (#35649088)
your post would be a good response to yourself mate, as your opinion of the US's "role in the conflict" has nothing to do with the topic we're discussing and seems to be bait
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Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by f6v on Friday April 21, 2023 @02:21AM (#35650345)
You’re free to just walk past by. Nobody forced you to respond.
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Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by ImPostingOnHN on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:23AM (#35653357)
that seems like it would be a good response to this post you made after yourself baiting and deflecting from the topic we were discussing, mate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643805

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