Proof that shit comes from assholes as the talking heads of the European Union EU tell the bloc’s agricultural sector that they cannot have Russian fertilizers to compensate for Trump’s Gulf fiascos.

It appears that Trump has not only put the United States but also Europe and much of the world into poo.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has hindered the export of key crop nutrients to the economic bloc.

The EU will adopt a long-term strategy involving cow dung to stave off a looming fertiliser shortage.

This inane strategy is to be adopted rather than supporting farmers with immediate measures like lifting tariffs on Russian and Belarusian imports.

The US-Israeli war on Iran disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

The seaway handles an estimated one-third of the global fertilizer trade, and a fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas (LNG). This gas is important in the production of nitrate fertilizers.

The key waterway was blocked by Trump’s war during planting season in the Northern Hemisphere.

Analysts warn of a potential global shortage of crucial crop nutrients and a delayed world-wide food shock.

The European Commission’s latest shit roadmap to parry the upcoming shortage is a long-term plan. The lunatic strategy has been around for years, with just a few emergency additions such as state aid for affected farmers.

Also, the designation of fertilizers as a crisis-relevant commodity and a promised boost for the EU farm budget.

However, some EU officials have reportedly warned that a long-term strategy relying on cow dung would not be enough.

‘Manure can be a contribution, but it can never substitute the urea-based, the nitrogen-based fertilizers,’ Politico cited Italian MEP and AGRI Committee member Herbert Dorfmann as saying.

Fast-acting measures to aid farmers, such as suspending taxes on carbon-intensive imports or tariffs on Russian and Belarusian fertilizers were dismissed as ’too politically toxic.’

The EU was the top buyer of Russian crop nutrients until 2022, receiving around 28% of its exports. Following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict and the bloc’s imposition of sanctions on Russia, Moscow redirected much of its fertilizer trade to BRICS nations and the Global South.

Since 2021, Russia has increased sales of mineral fertilizers to BRICS countries by 71%, and now holds first place worldwide in exports of the commodities and second place in output, Russian Association of Fertilizer Producers head Andrey Guryev said earlier this year.

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