Specifically as a propaganda weapon.
Western
propagandists and politicians and imperialist apparatchiks want us to
believe that Russia wants to starve Africans. They expect us to believe
that Putin wants to use food as a "weapon" against the very African
nations Russia is keen to keep neutral in the proxy war the U.S. is
waging against Russia in Ukraine. Why in hell would Putin want to
alienate those nations that have remained neutral in the NATO war to
wreck Russia? It's as absurd and dishonest as Nazi anti-Semitic
propaganda, completely ludicrous.
U.S. and Eurostooge media
propagandists keep falsely "reporting" that "Russia pulled out of the
[grain] deal." No, the "deal" expired, and Russia declined to renew it,
for the very good reason that the deal WASN'T HONORED. Russia was
double-crossed. (As the U.S. and its Eurolackeys have repeatedly
double-crossed Russia again and again since defeating the Soviet Union
in the Cold War.) The deal was that both Ukraine AND Russia would be
allowed to export grains. Russia honored its side of the bargain, even
though it was blocked from exporting.
Western imperialists
claim Russian grain exports weren't banned, but this is deceptive.
Russian grain exports weren't specifically banned, but they were
effectively banned because Russia was and is barred from international
payment systems by "Western sanctions." That is to say, by U.S. diktat.
The U.S. controls the international financial system and payments
mechanisms. So international trade is extremely difficult without U.S.
permission. The world is under the yoke of a U.S.-controlled system of
trade and finance. This is part of what is euphemised as "the
international order." What it is is a system of U.S. global domination.
Russia
has made clear they will join a new agreement if this time they are not
double-crossed. That is blocked from public consciousness by Western
propagandists (aka "journalists" or "reporters") state apparatchiks like
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (who repeatedly attacks Russia
for "using food as a weapon" and allegedly starving people) and
politicians.
The ones using food as a weapon are the U.S. and
its satrapys. They are using it as a propaganda weapon to claim evil
Russia wants to starve Africans.
Russia has responded to the
U.S. refusal to permit a fair deal by shelling Ukraine regime food
warehouses. At least that's what Western propaganda agencies claim.
Given how mendacious so much of their "news" has been- they wanted us to
believe Russia sabotaged its own undersea gas pipeline, that for months
it shelled its own troops at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine,
and other absurdities- unfortunately we can't take for granted the
accuracy of any "reportage" by Western propaganda outfits. These
propagandists' jobs are to make Russia look as evil as possible, the the
Kyiv regime noble freedom fighters. We the people are the targets and
victims of their propaganda barrages.
Postscript: I
actually wrote this several weeks ago. Today the propagandists are still
gaslighting the public about this issue. For example, on NPR, loathsome
propagandist Greg Myrie yammered on and on about mean Russia causing
hunger, while carefully omitting Russia's completely valid complaint,
and the REAL party responsible for the impasse- the U.S., which refuses
to allow Russia to sell its grain.