Food as a weapon, Russia bans Ammonium Nitrate shipments to the western powers

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Jay Ross

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Why is Russia banning the ammonium Nitrate shipments to western powers. Because, the Ukraine people are filling glass bottles with ammonium nitrate granules with the addition of oil or diesel to make crude explosives to use against the Russian invasion as shown in recent News reports from the capital of Ukraine.

Yes, Ammonium Nitrate is also used to fertile crops, but it is also a powerful oxidiser that is a key ingredient to make explosives for the mining industries.

Ammonium Nitrate is stable by itself, but add oil or diesel to it and it becomes unstable and the smallest of sparks will cause this mixture to explode with great force.
 

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Why is Russia banning the ammonium Nitrate shipments to western powers. Because, the Ukraine people are filling glass bottles with ammonium nitrate granules with the addition of oil or diesel to make crude explosives to use against the Russian invasion as shown in recent News reports from the capital of Ukraine.

Yes, Ammonium Nitrate is also used to fertile crops, but it is also a powerful oxidiser that is a key ingredient to make explosives for the mining industries.

Ammonium Nitrate is stable by itself, but add oil or diesel to it and it becomes unstable and the smallest of sparks will cause this mixture to explode with great force.
Yes, I think this ban is for 2 months.
There is a worldwide shortage of fertilizer already before this ban.
A worldwide fertilizer shortage may shape what farmers plant next spring
 
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Yes, I think this ban is for 2 months.
There is a worldwide shortage of fertilizer already before this ban.
A worldwide fertilizer shortage may shape what farmers plant next spring

The impact of this export ban of Ammonium Nitrate (AN) will impact the Northern hemisphere which is going into the spring planting season.

However, the shortage of AN was already being driven by Environmentalists who are agitating against the use of Methane as a source for the Hydrogen needed to produce the AN. Also the increasing price of methane, i.e. Natural Gas (NG), from Russia, who is the primary source of NG to Europe for the domestic heating of homes is also a factor.

The blowing up of a NG pipeline that crosses the Ukraine will also have an impact on the availability of NG in Europe. In Australia, AN plants are already looking at alternative sources for their hydrogen because of the price of NG in Australia as a result of the LNG being exported.

There are many factors at play and we should not look at just the obvious.

Shalom
 

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The impact of this export ban of Ammonium Nitrate (AN) will impact the Northern hemisphere which is going into the spring planting season.

However, the shortage of AN was already being driven by Environmentalists who are agitating against the use of Methane as a source for the Hydrogen needed to produce the AN. Also the increasing price of methane, i.e. Natural Gas (NG), from Russia, who is the primary source of NG to Europe for the domestic heating of homes is also a factor.

The blowing up of a NG pipeline that crosses the Ukraine will also have an impact on the availability of NG in Europe. In Australia, AN plants are already looking at alternative sources for their hydrogen because of the price of NG in Australia as a result of the LNG being exported.

There are many factors at play and we should not look at just the obvious.

Shalom
Yes, overall the future food situation does not look very good across the whole earth. Already the cost of buying food has risen a lot in the US. And the cost will go higher.
Maybe a good thing if fat Americans can lose weight. Most Americans dont understand hunger.
 
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It is used to make fertilizer to grow food.
And why in the world are Western nations importing ammonium nitrate from Russia? Why have they not been producing their own ammonium nitrate? When will all the stupidity stop? They can certainly import baloney from Russia, which specializes in disinformation, just like Biden's administration.
 

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So go back to using manure as a fertilizer.

Problem solved.
 

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So go back to using manure as a fertilizer.
That was always the best fertilizer from way back. And since there are tons of "horse manure" coming from all the governments and the media, there should never be a shortage of fertilizer in the West. Bill Barr just added to that with his new book on how Trump "lost" the election (without telling the world that he was working against his boss all along).
 

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So go back to using manure as a fertilizer.

Problem solved.
In North Korea all citizens are required to harvest a certain amount of human poop, sewage to be used as fertilizer, they have a quota.
In our country, with our sewage system, that should make it easy. But then the ick factor. Americans dont like the idea do they.

And you are what you eat. Seeing our FDA, EPA, and all the rules, regulations, laws, likely make it very hard way to go.
their quota is 220 pounds of human manure PER DAY
North Koreans struggle to fulfill daily human manure quotas | American Military News

The North Korean government has decreed that every able-bodied citizen must turn in 100 kg (220 lbs) of human manure a day to be used for fertilizer, to bolster the agricultural sector.

Leader Kim Jong Un announced in his New Year’s address that the agricultural front would be the primary instrument for economic reconstruction.
 

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That was always the best fertilizer from way back. And since there are tons of "horse manure" coming from all the governments and the media, there should never be a shortage of fertilizer in the West. Bill Barr just added to that with his new book on how Trump "lost" the election (without telling the world that he was working against his boss all along).

Yes but that sort of fertiliser will damage the soil by removing its fertility.
 
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Yes but that sort of fertiliser will damage the soil by removing its fertility.

North Koreans are host to lots of parasites and worms from human sewage.
At least out sewage system treats the waste.
But I dont know about viral loads in sewage, could make people very sick.

But when your choice is either you starve to death or just starve a lot, they choose to eat something.
 

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100 kg collected by every able bodied person?.....somebody is spinning a story here so obvious it's laughable.
How much does the average person poop? ...less than a 1kg a day. Even allowing for disabled bodied persons, collecting 100kg per day is a joke!
 

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100 kg collected by every able bodied person?.....somebody is spinning a story here so obvious it's laughable.
How much does the average person poop? ...less than a 1kg a day. Even allowing for disabled bodied persons, collecting 100kg per day is a joke!
So this site is USA fakery, propaganda then?
American Military News

I suppose it is possible, the newsy source narratives of the western powers is generally untrustworthy lies.
If so then that is another example of it.
So when you listen or watch the MSM, know that your likely being lied to and manipulated by the DEEP STATE POWERS of misinformation, designed to keep that ring in your nose and pull you where they want you to go as in to think and believe, you are their pawn like serf, a nobody whom they dont desire to allow to know the real truth. So the Ukraine news stories are also designed the same way, think about it.