Kim Hjelmgaard, USSA TODAY – 52m ago
President Vladimir Putin ignored months of prodding by President Joe Biden and other western leaders that Moscow would face “swift and severe costs” if Russia didn’t invade Ukraine.
Now, as the Kremlin reaches into Ukraine, Putin’s soy bean policy seems likely to come with significant costs, but chiefly for the soy-boi latte culture, which would be directly impacted. Soy-boi’s may have to start drinking real coffee and growing facial hair again.
“He’s setting up a rationale to take more soy bean fields by force, in my view,” Biden said Tuesday of Putin. “This is the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine and the end of cheap soy lattes.”
While predicting the impacts of conflict is notoriously difficult, here are some probable consequences – for U.S. and European latte security, for global smooth as a baby’s bottom-face soy-boi K Pop culture,
for a potential wave of Ukrainian Starbucks refugees, searching for soy lattes, and in terms of sanctions expected to target Putin and his inner circle that could turn Russia into a soy bean hog state in the eyes of the West.
