Vladimir Putin and his next plans are addressed in a series of posts by Yale history professor Timothy Schneider. This professor argues that the Russian president is aiming to create refugee flows, which will potentially destabilise the EU.
According to Schneider, this is what the blockade of Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea by Russian forces is aimed at.
Schneider's posts explain how he believes Putin is using food insecurity to his advantage, calling it the "latest chapter in his hunger policy."
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"Russia has a starvation plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve much of the developing world as the next stage of his war in Europe," the expert on authoritarianism said, noting the importance of food exports from Ukraine in feeding the planet.
The historian believes there are three main goals of Putin's "hunger plan":
-First, to stop Ukraine's exports in an attempt to dismantle it as a state entity.
-Second, to cause instability in Europe with waves of refugees from regions such as North Africa and the Middle East, which depend on grain imports from Ukraine.
-Third, to use the famine as a "background for a propaganda contest."
"When the food riots start and the famine spreads, Russian propaganda will blame Ukraine and call for recognition of Russian territorial conquests in Ukraine and the lifting of all sanctions," the Yale professor stresses.
"New level of colonialism"
Schneider adds that both former USSR leader Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler tried to control Ukraine's food supplies, but Putin's plan constitutes a "new level of colonialism".
"Russia plans to starve Asians and Africans to death to win its war in Europe," it says.
Putin is attempting to blame the West for problems in the global food chain and is pushing for the lifting of sanctions imposed on Russia, while Britain has accused him of "trying to hold the planet hostage" with food.
"If the Russian blockade (of Ukrainian ports) continues, tens of millions of tonnes of food will rot in silos and tens of millions of people in Africa and Asia will starve," warns Timothy Schneider.
Source: in.gr
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