Ukraine's fertile and vital wheat fields have long shaped world history and helped fuel the Russian Revolution in 1917
is available from Basic Books.he forty-mile convoy that was stalled between Prybirsk and the airport northwest of Kyiv is a metaphor: for inattentive tank maintenance, for battalions dependent on artillery, and for a poorly-planned Blitzkrieg. Those tanks and supply vehicles—now dispersed and sinking in the mud—suggest how every human endeavor relies on lines of supply that can only be seen by satellite. Vladimir Putin’sUkraine’s flat prairies above the Black Sea is not just hubris.
Russia needed to invade southward. No one understands that better than Vladimir Putin. But in his quest to take Ukraine he has ended up harming Russia’s own grain economy, with exports now stalled on cargo ships on the Black Sea, unlikely to reach their intended markets until the war ends or sanctions lift. That, as much as sanctions, will doom this endeavor to reconquer Ukraine.
In 1919 German communist politician Rosa Luxemburg talking to the Russian revolutionary Dr. Alexander Helphand Parvus knew that the paths from the Ukrainian plains south to the Black Sea and north to Moscow and Petersburg were as fragile as tanks in the spring mud. In 1900 he founded a newspaper called in his apartment in Berlin. By then he was on the run from Russian security agents called thewho dogged him out of every city in Germany. His associates are better known.
Istanbul, Parvus understood, was also the key to a victory over Russia once World War I began. By then, Parvus had decided to side with Turkey and Germany against Russia, France, and Britain. Bottling up Russian wheat exports in the Black Sea, Parvus reasoned, would prevent Russia from feeding France and Britain through its ports. Parvus helped secure weapons that would defend Turkish Gallipoli.
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