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After the Grain Deal was struck, Western Europe became the top importer of Ukrainian grain, and a negligible amount of it ended up feeding the "Millions of hungry people around the world". The bulk of the African, Asian, and Global South countries, rely on Russian grain and not the Ukrainian. This does not affect global food security. Perhaps correct the title to not spread misinformation?
Russia could just stop waging wars of conquest and then they wouldn't have to worry about the world not wanting to buy their grain.
Seems simple enough to me.
Its not that simple, that's why you're wrong. Russia isn't having any problems selling it's grain, and in fact they're setting up additional trade routes into China to solidify their food insecurity there.
Given that Russia is obviously not going to stop the war, I'm not sure what constructive point you're trying to make here. Russia is also very clearly not worried about being able to export its commodities given that their exports are growing while their economy is projected to grow by the IMF. All the trade that Russia was doing with the west has now been replaced by trade with other countries. Meanwhile, pretty much all of the world outside the west has a positive view of Russia according to the recent reports produced by the EU and the US: