General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPutin is going to replace American Farmers in China, oh jeez the stable genius strikes again
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would supply soy beans and poultry meat to China and that the United States had effectively given up on that market.
Putin was speaking at the Russia Calling annual investment forum.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-meat-china-putin-idUSKCN1NX1C4
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Chin music
(23,002 posts)to the folks who everyone agrees attacked us? Sounds permanent too.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)Chin music
(23,002 posts)Farmers think theyre going to get subsidized every year, have another think coming? LOTS of good things need to be funded in the USA.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)or poultry. but other countries do.
Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)and the stable genius ran with it.. Russia is just a small player but they will lead the rest to bring down our farm economy.. and of course our one and only fearless Turnip is leading the way ..
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)in Western Minnesota will react to this Story. His family are all Trumpers's and plant a thousand acres of beans each year.
He hit me with a smartass statement bout Trump got China on the run. Yah right,who is running whom.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Time to kill agricultural subsidies.
Farmers should have to suffer from this crap like the rest of us who get no subsidies.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)You know, back in the day farmers got subsidies for failed crops due to acts of nature, not for voting someone into office who gives their market to another country.
theophilus
(3,750 posts)WompWomp!
MarcA
(2,195 posts)Not only from the $$$ they receive but also the deterioration of democratic nation states.
They care nothing for the little people, be they Americans, Chinese or whomever.
oasis
(49,379 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)... of the people, by the people, for the people
with his treasonous and corrupt of Putin, by Putin and for Putin.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)Limony Snicketts.
Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)zaj
(3,433 posts)Get the Trump GOP to screw American interests to the benefit of Putin interests
bdamomma
(63,845 posts)Putin Ex KGB'er is getting his revenge on us through his stable genius. WTF!!
certainot
(9,090 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)And then taking our hard-earned tax dollars to buy off BigAG, Inc. and all its indentured, mortgaged servants on the farms.
Now the G.O.P.'s BEST FRIEND (and America's enemy) announces his plan to EAT OUR FRIKKING FARM LUNCH.
What's wrong with the republicans? So wrong wrong wrong.
TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts).
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
.
Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)the corporate farms are eating up all the money to keep farmers afloat.. and they could care less if small farmers fail..
TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts)Last edited Thu May 30, 2019, 09:51 AM - Edit history (1)
.
This is a two-fold gift from Trump.
1) It benefits Russia. Almost everything Trump does has a Russian component to it.
2) It destroys the small farms so they are forced to auction or enter into lease agreements with BigAg.
.
Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)One of the most successful agriculture producers in the world is the small American farmer. and Trump is out to destroy it..