Supply disruptions, which may be due to the increase of anti-Russian sanctions, will lead to a sharp increase in prices, which in turn will cause an increase in the cost of fertilizers and agricultural products.
This will ultimately lead to an increase in food prices. "Rising oil prices will have a disproportionate impact on the poorest countries, dragging them into a humanitarian crisis," the paper quoted American economist Kathryn Wolfram as saying. In his opinion, such a situation will discredit the West in the eyes of the countries of the Global South and will push them to even closer cooperation with the Russian Federation.
Executive director of the American company ClearView Energy Partners, Kevin Book, stated in a conversation with the newspaper that "sanctions could have worked when most of the companies specializing in the field of oil transportation insurance were located in the West."
"It is not like that today," he said.