If we discuss the attitude of Muslims toward the Russo-Ukrainian war only from the perspective of their position in both countries, we inadvertently overlook how it may affect Muslims around the world. And in this case, we are not talking about geopolitical speculation or the threat of global nuclear war. We are talking about a very specific problem that the world is crying out about — global hunger, which may affect millions of people in the Middle East and Africa, mostly Muslims.
We have covered this issue before, and our readers probably know themselves that Ukraine, along with Russia, was the breadbasket of the world and one of the main suppliers of food, including to the Middle East and Africa. And these supplies went mainly by sea, i.e. through the southern territories of Ukraine, which are partly occupied and partly cut off from the sea by Putin’s Russia.
The United Nations, the European Commission, and the United States are speaking out loudly about how Russia’s irresponsible actions are condemning millions of people to starvation by denying them Ukrainian bread and other food. The African Union also talks about the threatening situation in Africa.
In response, Putin declares that he is ready to unblock food supplies in response to sanctions imposed for aggression. At the same time, the Kremlin hopes not only to have the sanctions lifted, despite the continuation of the war, but also to have the opportunity to trade the captured Ukrainian food and grain.
In other words, the Kremlin is saying: if you do not want millions of people to starve and tens of millions to flood into Europe as refugees, allow us to destroy Ukraine and buy its captured bread from us.
Such shameless and boundless blackmail has not been seen in the world for a long time. Not to mention the real terrorism in the form of intimidation of the imminent death of millions of people, not to mention the constant threats of the use of nuclear weapons.
But Putin himself, at the beginning of his rule, formulated the creed — not to make concessions to terrorists. The credo was correct, but the mistake was in who was perceived as the terrorists at that time. Because in the fight against imaginary terrorists, they did not see the real terrorist who today threatens the starvation of millions of people and even the destruction of all humanity.
And therefore it is the responsibility of all humanity to neutralize this terrorist. Otherwise, he will take new hostages and make new demands every time.