My sense is that the conflict between Russia and the West around Ukraine is largely along two axes. There, a United Fruit Company controlled by US shareholders, including members of the then president’s inner circle, the Dulles brothers and others, was not keen on allowing land reform to take place. That was directly a resource war, a coup in 1954 against the pretty moderate government of Jacobo Arbenz, who wanted land reform. I don’t think this is a resource war directly, in the same way as, let's say, the overthrow of the government in Guatemala. I don’t think they're going there to capture the wheat.
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