OPINION: TuckerCarlson: While China buys up American farmland, we may run out of food
Fox News host reacts to the president saying food shortages will be real on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'In retrospect, Joe Biden's first-term policy agenda seems very optimistic, almost comically optimistic. Shortly before his inauguration, Biden announced something he called the Build Back Better agenda. Of course, we mocked it at the time, but looking back, it was in some ways a hopeful document.
Biden called for free solar panels for everybody and taxpayer funded pre-K for all American parents and so on and on. Build Back Better was the neoliberal version of flying cars. It was a dreamy Christmas list of luxuries that, for a moment in time, seemed almost within reach. A lot has changed. Nobody's talking about flying cars anymore. Here's Joe Biden from yesterday:
We know that because the president of the United States just told us that on camera. So, what it this going to mean? How do food shortages affect the country? Well, if you're interested, go online and read about it. All of recorded history will answer your question. A food shortage is not like deciding to skip dessert. It's not a diet. It's not voluntary. A food shortage is different. It's scary. Food shortages topple governments. They turn moderates and revolutionaries.
The answer is,"Yes, America. There's a point to sanctions. Sanctions are designed to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine." We know that because not so long ago, Tony Blinken, the secretary of state, told CNN that,"the purpose of the sanctions in the first instance is to try to deter Russia from going to war," and then Jen Psaki, the president's publicist, backed him up."Our intention is to have a deterrent effect with sanctions," she said.
President Joe Biden speaks at Business Roundtable's CEO quarterly meeting, Monday, March 21, 2022, in Washington.Even Joe Biden didn't claim that was going to happen. So, what is the point? We're not sure. That's a topic for another show, but in the meantime, this country, we know this for sure, is being badly hurt by those sanctions.
FOX MULTIMEDIA REPORTER MILLS HAYES: Russia's ban on fertilizer is scheduled to last until the end of the year, and while supply is already tight this year, it's the future many are worried about. So, sanctions have thrown American agriculture into profound turmoil and will cause again, as the president has told us out loud, food shortages, which are maybe the most destabilizing trend you could ever have in a country—not just to the politics but to the social fabric. It's scary.