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BRUSSELS (LifeSiteNews) – Joe Biden on Thursday acknowledged coming global food shortages due to the Ukraine-Russia conflict and sanctions imposed by the West on Russia and said the shortages will impact the United States.
“We did talk about food shortages. It’s going to be real. The price of these sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well including European countries and our country as well,” Biden told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels after talks with Western leaders about food shortages.
“Because Russia and Ukraine have been the breadbasket of Europe in terms of wheat, for example, just to give one example, but we had a long discussion in the G-7 with both the United States, which is … the third-largest producer of wheat in the world, as well as Canada, which is also a major, major producer,” he said.
The U.S. and Canada have discussed how the two countries can “increase and disseminate more rapidly foods,” Biden said, and “talked about urging all the European countries and everyone else to end
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