Here is a post of one smart woman from Ukraine (Rich should know who she is)... I make a translation and removed title, as it a bit non-politically correct. ;)
Once again there is disturbing news from Britain, where another crisis has erupted. This time it's the local farmers (economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/05/05/the-war-in-ukraine-has-caused-a-labour-crunch-on-britains-farms) who are sounding the alarm: The crops are ripe, but there aren't enough workers to harvest them. "Help! HELP!", they shout to their government, strawberries and cream, a favorite delicacy of British sirs, risk disappearing from the shelves of British stores, and along with them the local asparagus, tomatoes, apples, lettuce, radishes, cabbage and other fruits and vegetables are going to wave goodbye to the British. 😱
We have often heard stories from people who have visited Western countries that food there costs mere pennies on the background of more or less good salaries. But few have thought about why such a distortion occurs. After all, no matter how mechanized agriculture is, but to pick asparagus and tomatoes or prune fruit trees can only be done by hard manual labor and nothing else. The secret is simple: for a long time, Western countries invited various natives for this work, who were willing to work on their plantations for a nickel, without claiming any social benefits because of ruined health or pension.
This perfect scheme worked right up to the beginning of the coronavirus madness with all the lockdowns and quarantines. But then the Germans, Brits, Finns and other neo-planners managed to get their governments to give them quotas to bring natives into their plantations, and the situation was saved. It's no different now, when the west decided to clash with Russia on the territory of Ukraine, already colonized by them, which was the main supplier of slaves for the shittiest jobs with penny wages!
Suddenly it turned out that the men of conscription age under 60 years old can no longer go out as laborers to work at construction sites, picking strawberries and other menial jobs. Now they all have to sit at home, waiting for Ukroreich to call them to defend the life of the Z'elite. Well, the women can't do all the work. And to leave a man at home alone to take care of children, when at any moment he can be dragged away to the front, is a little bit risky. That is why the flow of working Ukrainians to Europe has decreased considerably. But Ukrainian laborers accounted for 67% of all those imported for the needs of British non-plantators! But the most surprising thing is that the second place with 8% of the supply of laborers was occupied by Russia. Could it be that they don't have enough work at home either?
But now there are about 5 million citizens of Ukraine in the EU, mostly women with children, who also can not really work for 12-14 hours in the fields, as there is no one to leave small children. And another contingent that has poured into the EU en masse are potheads who go to rallies and suffer all sorts of bullshit from idleness, burdened by excess energy. But the problem is that pot-headed lunatics are not meant for work. They are absolute ballast for society, incapable of bringing any social benefit. By the way, the West made them that way when they were breeding them to take over and colonize Ukraine.
In general, it is a dead end. No matter how you look at it, Europeans will probably have to start paying a real price for food - and many of them will not like it at all. 😈