{"id":54424,"date":"2014-08-08T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54424"},"modified":"2014-08-07T19:37:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T23:37:21","slug":"russia-boycotts-us-eu-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54424","title":{"rendered":"Russia boycotts US & EU food"},"content":{"rendered":"

Retaliation from Russia for sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union will include all fruits vegetables and poultry according to Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The measures will hit consumers at home who rely on cheap imports, and on farmers in the West for whom Russia is a big market. Moscow is by far the biggest buyer of European fruit and vegetables and the second biggest importer of U.S. poultry.<\/p>\n

RIA quoted the spokesman for Russia’s food safety watchdog VPSS, Alexei Alexeenko, as saying all European fruit and vegetables and all produce from the United States would be included in a ban drawn up on the orders of President Vladimir Putin to punish countries that imposed sanctions on Russia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, oh, by the way, NATO claims that there are 20,000 Russian troops stacked up at the Ukrainian frontier;<\/p>\n

“We’re not going to guess what’s on Russia’s mind, but we can see what Russia is doing on the ground \u2013 and that is of great concern. Russia has amassed around 20,000 combat-ready troops on Ukraine\u2019s eastern border,” NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n

Moscow could use “the pretext of a humanitarian or peace-keeping mission as an excuse to send troops into Eastern Ukraine”, she said. A NATO military officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Russia’s build-up at the border included tanks, infantry, artillery, air defence systems, logistics troops, special forces, and aircraft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Associated Press<\/a> says that Putin is showing that he’s just as willing to hurt his own people as well as the Euros. But, I guess that they don’t understand that there are other places Russia can buy fruits and vegetables like China and South America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Retaliation from Russia for sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union will include … Russia boycotts US & EU food<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}