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[–] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

A lot of these farms are getting bought up and consolidated under an increasingly rarified group of oligarchs.

And a lot of the lay voters are in it for the culture war shit - hating migrants and bombing Iran and beating China (the industry's biggest buyer).

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    China is very quietly executing the "Never interrupt your enemy when they are a making a mistake" strategy.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    That's the tongue in cheek response. But I think they were very happy to buy up enormous amounts of Iowa pork at competitive rates. And I suspect more than a few CCP bureaucrats are incredibly annoyed at how US racism and fear mongering gets in the way of any economic cooperation

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