Two days after the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture announced that they would be doubling their dairy exports by 2035, and that the Dutch would contribute €40 million via the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation for seeds and other materials as well as other financial and technical support, the Dutch government announced their country’s farming would have to be cut in half because of the “nitrogen problem.”
Reducing the so-called problem of ammonia and other nitrogen compounds deposited or emitted by agriculture is not about protecting people; its ostensible purpose is to prevent “protected areas” (Natura 2000 sites), from being affected by the groundwater or air currents from modern agriculture, in order to allow prehistoric plants to flourish (sic)!
With this transparent excuse, half of the most productive farmers in the world will be dumped?! It doesn’t make sense, or does it? This may be the only way out for the Dutch government, killing two birds with one stone: (1) cripple the Dutch farm movement, which is opposed to war and has resumed arousing the public by flying the Dutch flag upside down; they are a force to be reckoned with; in part because of the nitrogen issue, they brought down the Rutte government in July of 2023; and (2) to help strengthen Ukraine for the eventual European war against Russia.
