{"id":20828,"date":"2024-06-07T08:52:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20828"},"modified":"2024-06-07T08:52:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:52:57","slug":"firing-line-friday-russia-and-the-food-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/06\/07\/firing-line-friday-russia-and-the-food-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: Russia and the Food Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fifty years ago the United States was suffering inflation, with food prices exceeding general inflation numbers. Fifty years ago, the question of Russia and the need for a supply of wheat and grains was of geopolitical importance. Today, we have inflation, with food prices ecceeding general inflation numbers, and the geopolitical issue of Russia and the one of the major breadbaskets of the world, Ukraine. Let us look back half-a-century ago when William F. Buckley, Jr. and Morton I. Sosland discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.hoover.org\/objects\/6335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia and the food crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Ebm0OG3RMQ?si=3tREc1zokzAoc60L\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg 591w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: Russia and the Food Crisis  \"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Fifty years ago the United States was suffering inflation, with food prices exceeding general inflation numbers.  Fifty years ago, the question of Russia and the need for a supply of wheat and grains was of geopolitical importance.  Today, we have inflation, with food prices ecceeding general inflation numbers, and the geopolitical issue of Russia and the one of the major breadbaskets of the world, Ukraine.  Let us look back half-a-century ago when William F. Buckley, Jr. and Morton I. Sosland discussed Russia and the food crises.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fifty years ago the United States was suffering inflation, with food prices exceeding general inflation numbers. Fifty years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/06\/07\/firing-line-friday-russia-and-the-food-crisis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[19,95],"class_list":["post-20828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-communism","tag-firing-line-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20829,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20828\/revisions\/20829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}