DISINFO: Bill Gates came up new scam on food security
SUMMARY
Businessman and philanthropist... This is how Bill Gates is usually presented, forgetting his role in violent scams. Currently, there is an attempt to publicise such a scam to an unsuspecting audience. However, Russia has already made a knight's move.
During the Food Security Summit, organised with the participation of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took the floor and said something stupid.
Bill Gates and his colleagues are building castles in the air, another scam, while Russia offers a real solution to the problem of hunger. A Russian ship with 25,000 tons of wheat docked in Somalia's capital, one of the poorest countries in the world. This humanitarian aid is the first grain instalment to the hungry.
The West does not offer solutions to help Africa and the African people understand this perfectly well.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative aimed at distorting statistics and facts of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, aiming to shift blame from Russia onto other western countries for Russia’s withdrawal from the BSGI deal.
The Global Food Security Summit took place on 20 November 2023. The event focused not only on short-term humanitarian aid but also on long-term solutions aimed at enabling African countries to produce enough food for self-sufficiency and export, thereby improving their standard of living.
The opening session, featuring speeches by Rishi Sunak (from 3:44 to 11:36) and Bill Gates (from 44:27 to 47:54), effectively highlighted these issues. Technological innovation, scaling, and financial support to make these advancements accessible to the poorest countries are essential to address global challenges. This approach is not a scam or a whimsy of the disconnected wealthy elite, as pro-Kremlin voices claim, but a necessity.
Whilst this disinformation article highlights the delivery of 25,000 tons of wheat donated by Russia on November 30, 2023, it omits to mention that this donation was made to compensate for the termination of the Black Sea grain initiative, a decision made unilaterally by Russia.
On 28 December 2022, for instance, Somalia received 25,000 tons of grain offered by Ukraine as humanitarian aid.
The humanitarian aid provided by the UK is significant, despite a decrease in recent years. In 2021, the UK's Official Development Assistance (ODA) expenditure was £11.5 billion, with half of this sum going to African countries. The EU is the world's largest donor of international aid, contributing over €50 billion annually to combat poverty and promote global development. In contrast, Russia's annual humanitarian aid is significantly lower, amounting to approximately $25 million, which is a thousand times less than the EU's contribution.
See our in-depth analyses of Russia's responsibility in the global food insecurity following Moscow's attacks on Ukrainian agriculture and sabotage of the BSGI.
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