Chapter 235 I stole wheat for my country! Dad: KDA record is at stake!
New canopy.

An old man with Middle Eastern appearance appeared on the sky. He was holding a stick and digging something with difficulty in the desert land.

After some work, he dug out some brown balls.

The old man carefully put the ball into his pocket and walked away happily.

After he left, the camera turned to a sign next to him.

The writing on it is in foreign languages, but the sky curtain is annotated in Chinese.

[Minefield! Keep away!!!]

……

The scene changes, and the old man has now arrived at the market, setting up a stall to sell truffles with many other vendors.

At the same time, the narration on the screen began.

[“Picking truffles in a minefield is very dangerous and may result in death.”]

[This text message was sent by the United Nations Mine Action Service to a group of Syrian mobile phone users.]

[In recent years, due to the difficult livelihood, many Syrians have ventured into minefields to harvest wild truffles, resulting in frequent casualties. ]

[This delicacy on Western tables has become a bloody truffle. ]

[Truffles are a high-end food ingredient in the West.]

[In the Syrian market, a kilogram of truffles costs only 60 to 150 RMB. ]

[It is far less than the price on a Western table. ]

[But for ordinary Syrians, it is already very expensive.]

[Since the beginning of this year, the price of truffles in Syria has soared due to currency depreciation and inflation. ]

[In addition to market factors, there is another factor that causes the price of truffles to soar. ]

[Truffles are rare and picking them is life-threatening.]

[Harvesters need to walk in the desert to search for truffles, and sometimes they can only find one kilogram of truffles a day. ]

[In these sparsely populated minefields and deserts, getting lost is a piece of cake. ]

[The key is that they would occasionally step on landmines and even be kidnapped by various armed elements! ]

【Life is difficult in Syria, which has been ravaged by war for a long time. 】

[In order to earn income from truffles, many people would rather risk their lives and seize the time to collect wild truffles. ]

[In addition to the war, the long-term sanctions imposed by the United States have also dealt a heavy blow to Syria’s economy. ]

[Many people have no choice but to become truffle hunters despite the great risks. 】

[In order to improve efficiency, many truffle hunters will bring their families to the desert to pick truffles. ]

[A truffle hunter said: "I was very scared while picking truffles. I was worried about getting lost in the desert, encountering landmines, and being kidnapped by militants."]

"But the kids and I need to eat."

[“If I had a job opportunity and other ways to make a living, I would not risk my life and the lives of my family to pick truffles, but now I have no choice.”]

[Many truffle hunters have paid a heavy price for this.]

On the canopy, a reporter found a former truffle picker.

[The young son of this truffle hunter named Adab was killed by a landmine while accompanying his parents to pick truffles.]

[“From then on, I never brought any truffles home again.”]

[“Because I can see that it is stained with my son’s blood.”]

……

At the end of the video, a piece of cold data was given.

[In Syria, more than 2024 civilians died in landmine accidents in the first five months of 96 alone. ]

[These included 21 women and 29 children.]

[Another 99 people were injured.]

[Most of these civilian landmine accidents are related to truffle harvesting.]

……

The sky video ends.

A large number of barrages also flew out.

"Why would you risk so much to get this little thing?"

"I think the taste is just average. The ones in my refrigerator are all frozen."

"This thing is packaged in a high-end way, but the purchase price is only 7 US dollars. The oil they squeeze is not as clean as it is!"

"It's not the truffles."

《Truffle collecting is not so dangerous.》

"In Yunnan Province, truffles are obtained mainly through the pigs' sense of smell, but there are no mines in our production areas."

"No, isn't America a beacon? Why are they still imposing sanctions on Syria when it's in such a bad situation?"

This last paragraph of the barrage is also what many people want to ask.

Qin Dynasty.

Ying Zheng was also puzzled and said: "It seems that Syria is a small, weak country torn apart by war."

“I can hardly survive.”

"Why is it that the United States, the world's most powerful country in the future, is rushing to impose sanctions on Syria?"

Although according to Ying Zheng's thoughts, he felt that powerful countries bully weak small countries.

It is a very normal thing in itself.

But seeing that the so-called advanced civilization of later generations was like this always made Ying Zheng feel a little puzzled.

In Ying Zheng's puzzled mood.

New skydome videos have also emerged.

A man appeared on the project. He was an adult man, but his profile picture was photoshopped into that of Black Cat Sheriff.

With the classic background music of “Ahhh…Ahhh Black Cat Sheriff” playing, the man began to tell the story.

Who stole Syria's wheat?

【Name?】

【Surname: Ying. 】【Gender? 】

[Oh, you have dozens of genders, right? Is it tentatively set as an armed helicopter? ]

After a brief whole life.

The man turned into a normal anchor and began to tell the news in a serious tone.

【Based on the information currently available. 】

[Fifty-five percent of Syria's population, or 13 million people, face food insecurity.]

[In short, half of the people in Syria are hungry.]

【You know, that’s Syria! 】

[It is the earliest place in human history where wheat was domesticated and cultivated. ]

[The area of ​​land in Syria is called the Fertile Crescent.]

[Before the war, six million tons of wheat were produced each year.]

[Not only can it feed its own people, but more than half of its agricultural products, such as wheat, can be exported to earn foreign exchange.]

[And now Syria's annual wheat production is less than 500,000 tons. ]

【It is not even one-tenth of what it was before the war. 】

So where did the more than 5 million tons of wheat production that Syria lost go?

A map of Syria appeared on the sky curtain.

The northeastern region of Syria is marked with a red circle.

[More than 70 percent of Syria’s wheat is produced in the peninsula in northeastern Syria.]

[Mainly from provinces such as Raqqa, Hasakah, and Deir ez-Zor. ]

[This is because the southeastern part of Syria is a large desert.]

[Although the western coastal areas have more water resources, they are mostly mountainous, which is not conducive to agricultural cultivation.]

[So Syria's main grain-producing area is the northeastern region of Syria where the Euphrates and Tigris rivers are located. ]

【The main grain-producing area in Syria is in the northeast.】

[What does this have to do with the criminal suspect Ying? ]

[It turns out that the US military and its allies, the Kurdish armed forces, are illegally stationed in Syria. ]

[The main area they occupy is northeastern Syria.]

[The main grain-producing areas have been occupied by the United States and its allies, the Kurdish armed forces.]

【So there is a food shortage in Syria.】

[But the Syrian government has an enclave in Hasakah province in northeastern Syria.]

[In theory, the farmers' grain could be purchased there and then transported to the areas controlled by the Syrian government forces.]

[However, the Syrian government in the enclave is fighting with Kurdish forces supported by the US military for food for farmers in Hasakah province.]

[The price offered by the Syrian enclave for food purchases is higher than that offered by the Kurdish armed forces.]

[Although the price offered is higher.]

[But Syria can’t actually harvest much food in Hasakah province.]

【why? 】

[Our reporter interviewed the representative of the Syrian Food Program in Hasakah Province.]

【And found out the reason.】

【The food representative said that before the US military occupied this place.】

[The government can purchase 1.5 million tons of wheat from Hasakah province every year.]

[This year, the government can only purchase 100,000 tons of grain.]

Why is there such a huge drop?

[Because local farmers are transporting food to the Syrian government's food purchasing point. ]

[They will be forcibly stopped by the US military and the Kurdish armed forces they support. ]

【Just rob them of their food. 】

[So... where did all the food that Eagle stole go? ]

[Sorry, I didn't rob, I stole the food. ]

[Local farmers have to pass through dozens of checkpoints controlled by the US military every time they go to the city.]

[Their phones will be checked repeatedly, and if they take photos of things they shouldn’t, such as photos of the U.S. military transporting food overseas, their phones will be confiscated.]

【Those who take photos will also be severely punished.】

【Throw him directly into jail! 】

[We are being so cautious, so we are not trying to steal food. ]

【Just stealing food. 】

【You can’t falsely accuse a good person of innocence. 】

[Fortunately, there are still brave people in the local area who risked their lives to shoot first-hand materials. ]

[You can see it from the video they provided. ]

[Since the beginning of the grain procurement season, there have been more than 15 to 20 large trucks escorted by American Hummers and even helicopters every day.]

[They forcibly purchased wheat from Syrian farmers.]

[It is then transported to Iraq through illegal border crossings.]

[In these risky photos, you can see trucks full of wheat and silos full of wheat.]

[The person who filmed the video also bluntly said: It was the U.S. military that deprived the Syrian people of their bread and food, leaving more than half of the Syrian people starving.]

【Speaking of which, Syria is also really miserable. 】

[The world's most powerful country has stolen our oil, and the world's most powerful country's wild father has stolen our water. ]

[This father and son really screwed Syria over. ]

[If this continues, I’m afraid that even the father of the world’s most powerful country will lose his global KDA record…]

(End of this chapter)