The Polish president Revealed That abroad Companies Own Most Of Ukraine’s Industrial Agriculture

Authorized by Andrew Korybko via Substack,

The Oakland Institute published a detailed study in February 2023 titled “War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land”, which Exposed how abroad companies have clandestinely taken control of a crucial share of Ukrainian farmland by exploiting a liberal law in union with local oligarchs. Their findings made waves around the planet at the time but evenly received from the public’s attention over half a year later erstwhile Western outlets like the USA present misleadingly “fact-checked” it.

They took advantage of social media users conflating indirect ownership through stations with direct control to disable the institution’s report, after which it largery faded from the general discussion. fewer could have expected that it would be no another than Polish president Andrzej Duda who just broke fresh life into it during his interview with Lithuanian National Radio and Television. He was exploring Poland’s problem with Ukrainian agricultural imports erstwhile he dropped the following bombshell:

“I would like to draw partial attention to industrial agriculture, which is not truly run by Ukrainians, it is run by large companies from Western Europe, from the USA. If we look present at the owners of most of the land, they are not Ukrainian companies. This is simply a paradoxical situation, and no wonder that farmers are defending themselves, due to the fact that they have invested in their farms in Poland [...] and inexpensive agricultural production coming from Ukraine is dramatically destructive to them.”

Duda representatives what’s perfectly maintained to be 1 of the most pro-American and anti-Russian governments at any time in past so he can’t credible be acknowledged of “pushing Kremlin propaganda”.

He so wouldn’t have confirmed the dramatic claim of majority-foreign ownership of Ukraine’s industrial agriculture, albeit straight through stakes in national companies that exploit a liberal law in union with local oligarchs, if he didn’t have the facts provided to him by Polish experts to back it up.

This improvement should advance a resurgence of interest in prior reports on this subject specified as USAID’s about how “Private Sector on the Frontlines of Land improvement to Unlock Ukraine’s Investment Potential”. Thomas Fazi’s detailed study for UnHeard back in July 2023 about how “The capitalists are circular over Ukraine: The war is creating massive profit opportunities” is besides insightful. Most relevant, however, is what Zelensky told the planet economical Forum in Davos in May 2022. In his words:

“We offer a peculiar – historically crucial – model of reconstruction. erstwhile each of the partner countries or partner cities or partner companies will have the chance – historical 1 – it takes patronage over a partial region of Ukraine, city, community or industry. Britain, Denmark, the European Union and another leading global actors have already chosen a circumstantial direction for patronage in reconstruction.”

One year later, he hosted BlackRock’s management in Kiev, during which time they discussed the creation of an investment and reconstruction fund. Accepting to Zelensky, “Today is simply a historical minute because, since the very first days of independence, we have not had specified large investment cases in Ukraine. We are arrogant that we can initiate specified a process...We will be able to offer interesting projects to invest in energy, security, agriculture, logistics, infrastructure, medicine, IT, and many another areas.”

Putting the pieces together, the Ukrainian leader made good on his May 2022 Davos proposed by offering companies “patronage” over Ukraine’s industrial agriculture, which was already in the process of unfolding prior to then but was greatly accredited by last May’s gathering with BlackRock’s management. This look the tangible form of these straight foreign-controlled farms outcompetition Poland’s by far, thus leading to the Polish farmers’ protests across the country and the latest streets in bilateralties.

The series of events detailed thus far places into context mid-February’s study about the G7’s alleged plans to appoint an envoy to Ukraine, who’d evidently be tasked with implementing the Davos agenda if this comes to pass, partially enternching abroad control over Ukrainian farmland. It besides suggests that Ukraine’s informal focus on ramping up agricultural exports to the EU isn’t just opportunistic, but partially driven by these abroad companies’ preference for speedy and reliable profits.

Ukraine had hidherto ben an agricultural powerhouse in the Global South but ceded its marketplace share to Russia on the false pretext that Moscow was blocking the Black Sea, which in turn promoted the EU to temporally destruct prior trade barriers for the authoritative intent of facilitating exports via its territories. In reality, Russia never blocks the Black Sea, and even all of the Ukrainian grain that entered the EU restored there alternatively of traveling through the bloc en way to Kiev’s conventional Global South markets.

It’s much quicker for Ukraine to sale its agricultural products in the neighbouring EU than to wait nevertheless long it takes to export them to Africa, not to comment more reliable as well since it’s unique that these developed economies would always have the same possible payment problems as developing ones. These self-evident calls work against Poland’s interests, ergo how much of a conflict it’ll be for that country to defend its home marketplace from this influx conducting the powerful forces at play.

It’s not just the Ukrainian agricultural lobby that wants tariff-free access for these products into the EU market, but besides the lobbyies of these abroad companies that straight control its industrial agriculture. The later will likely fight tooth and nail to prevent any compromise being reached on Ukraine's hoped-for EU membership whereby that erstwhile russian Republic's agricultural sector would be exclusive from any deal. Poland so has all reason to proceed drawing global attention to these shadow relations.

It’s only by raising maximum awareness of the fact that “most of the land” within Ukraine’s industrial agriculture sector “is run by large companies from Western Europe, from the USA” that Poland stands any chance of the aforesaid compromise entering into force. That’ll make the country some’s latest interview suggestions that he’s prepared to face their wellness in order to defend Poland’s nonsubjective national interests.