SARAJEVO, May 26 (Reuters) – British foreign minister Liz Truss accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of holding the world to ransom over food, responding to a question about whether she supported lifting sanctions in exchange for grain exports from Ukraine. “It is completely appalling that Putin is trying to hold the world to ransom, and he is essentially weaponising hunger and lack of food amongst the poorest people around the world,” Truss said during a visit to Bosnia on Thursday. “We simply cannot allow this to happen. Putin needs to remove the blockade on Ukrainian grain.” On Wednesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko was cited by the Interfax news agency as saying that Moscow was ready to provide a humanitarian corridor for vessels carrying food to leave Ukraine, in return for the lifting of some sanctions. Western countries have coordinated in imposing sanctions on Russia, from its companies and media outlets to businessmen and politicians, to punish Moscow for the war in Ukrainian. “What we cannot have is any lifting of sanctions, any appeasement, which will simply make Putin stronger in the longer term,” Truss said. NN: Putin is not to blame. He is smart enough to take advantage of the Greeninnieewinnie fantasy. The reason why grain prices are so high is because the US mandates 40% of gasoline to be renewables. Since corn grows every year it is indeed a renewable crop and is used for producing alachol to mix with gasoline. At $3.00 a bushel corn was a cheap food feeding the world. Since the US chose to burn food as a fuel corn is at $9.00…. its a luxury item unafordable to the emerging world. Instead of sanctioning Putin which will not work anyway. Simply remove the gasoline mandate and grain prices will crash right down back to earth. Same with oil. Midwest refiners are old and obsolete and can only refine heavy crude. (US has not built a new refinery in 50 years). US light sweet will not work. So the oil is supplied by Canada, Russia or Venezuela. The US stopped construction of the oil pipeline from Canada (in fact Canada is building a pipeline to its west coast to export this oil the US desperately needs, to china) and prohibited existing pipelines from importing Canada heavy crude. Instead of letting the Canadian crude come to America which is as simple as opening a valve the US is turning to another dictatorship Venezuela to supply heave crude…. How do you think that will end up. As far as Europe is concerned it shut down its gas fields, prohibited exploration, Prohibited clean burning thermal coal and shut down clean Nukes and turned to Russia as a 45% supplier of all its energy needs. They did this before solar or wind was a viable option. So they are fucked and blaming Putin…….