Is "A state that is not able to feed itself...[is not]âĶa formidable foe" a quote by a historically known figure?
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This quote is being attributed to Winston Churchill, e.g. here: http://runmen.mmm-tasty.ru/entries/3465785. The Russian text on that page is literally the one you asked about (and the book you were reading is apparently this one). While it sounds like something that Churchill could have said given the British WW2 history, all the citations have a newer date (starting around 2010) and I couldn't find anything resembling the English original. It seems that the quotation from the book has been recently attributed to Churchill in the public debates on Russia's WTO membership to give it more weight.
What seems more likely to be the origin of your quote is this speech held by Stalin in 1920. There is no single quote that would be similar to yours but the overall meaning of the text is just this.
In general, I would definitely look for this quote somewhere between the world wars - that's the period where the economical ties between the countries got strong enough that they were an issue in a war. It's unlikely to be something said after WW2: while the economical ties got even stronger then, the political landscape changed and the same thought would have been justified with defense rather than aggression.
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