Senator Alexey Pushkov. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 20. The cause of the global food and energy crisis was the position of the West on the security guarantees offered by Russia, Senator Alexei Pushkov wrote on Telegram. In his opinion, Western sanctions against Moscow due to a special operation in Ukraine also led to catastrophic consequences for the global economy. «It was necessary to give guarantees to Russia's security, and not try to strangle it with sanctions. And there would be no crisis — neither energy nor wheat,» Pushkov said. The senator believes that the West's desire for unipolarity led to erroneous assessments of the situation.
"Instead, addicted to the game of subjugating the world, (politicians. — Approx. ed.) in the West by and large "overlooked" that globalization is interdependence, and not just the dependence of the rest of the world on the West . And now they are surprised to discover it", he concluded.
Western countries have stepped up sanctions pressure on Moscow after the start of a military special operation in Ukraine. Restrictive measures mainly affected the banking sector and the sphere of high-tech products. At the same time, due to the disruption of supply chains, Europe and the United States faced a sharp increase in grain prices. So, in March, the price of wheat on the Chicago exchange rose to a maximum in almost 14 years, and corn — in nine years. Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, speaking about the consequences of sanctions against Moscow, said that they would lead to a full-fledged international food crisis with the prospect of famine in some countries.