July 4, 2022· 35 min

Admiral Stavridis on a Plan to Get Ukrainian Wheat Out of a Warzone

James Stavridis

Orality

Model

61%

Mixed oral/literate (blogs, casual essays)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,079 words)

M:28%

HostJoe Weisenthal(671 words)

M:29%

GuestJames Stavridis(0 words)

M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic42%

literally, completely, clearly

Engagement60%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, now, so

Repetition100%

it's (40x), about (27x), military (27x)

Parallelism83%

And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So this is something we've spo..., But Ukraine, of course, someti...

Sound Patterns63%

38 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases10%

i mean, if you will, so to speak

Literate Indicators

Hedging8%

may, relatively, could

Passive Voice8%

being faced, be sustained, be applied

Abstract Nouns22%

investment, recommendation, business

Subordination8%

because, therefore, provided

Sentence Length39%

Avg: 14.7 words/sentence

Word Complexity49%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style40%

362 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style100%

literally, completely, apply

Description

Inflation was running hot even before Russia invaded Ukraine, but disruption in Europe's bread basket certainly hasn't helped matters and there are now plenty of warnings that a global food shortage could be looming. Even if the normal cycle of sowing crops and harvesting them can keep going uninterrupted in Ukraine, wheat exports would still need to get out of the country. With Russia currently blockading the Black Sea, this seems like a major challenge. In this episode of Odd Lots, former Nato Supreme Allied Commander Admiral James Stavridis presents one idea to get Ukrainian grains out and to the rest of the world. He suggests reaching back to a military playbook last used in the Tanker War between Iraq and Iran. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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