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[King Zultan]

I've seen very few threads on this forum that don't get derailed every now and then, it's part of the natural motion of things to get off track at times.

[Duuvian]

I've been reading a bit on the grain surplus in Eastern Europe, for example that there are support programs being built for local agriculture. In addition to this, I was wondering if building a grain stockpile somewhere in Europe to supply Sudan and in particular Darfur with would be a good idea for relieving some of that pressure. Within my memory Darfur was in the not very distant past a notorious example of famine, and I've read in Al-Jazeera's reporting that there are other armed organizations that may expand the conflict especially in Darfur. Overall my knowledge is very meagre on the subject, but here is a note I wrote to myself yesterday in order to remind myself to ask whether it would be a good idea or not; I've copied and pasted it because it was very easy if superfluous.

Sudan- Accumulate grain in Eastern Europe out of circulation to contribute to prevention (if this is allowed by law and custom) of growing support in rural Poland for a far right party who are from what little I've read on it (in passing in articles and I haven't read about it otherwise so my apologies if I am incorrect) sympathetic to Putin and who are pressuring Duda in upcoming elections, if that is a concern (I am not very knowledgable and going off news articles); and hold it in reserve for what may happen in Darfur in particular. This may help solve a potential problem now and one that seems it may be probable at a later time, as well as would be an act of benevolence that could be more than it's own reward in the diplomatic sense. This may also be important as there is another grain producing country making inroads in the continent...

EDIT: Grammar and some changes to the posted note

[Il Palazzo]

The only Putin-adjacent party around here has marginal support.

[Duuvian]

Ah, that is reassuring. That was my reason to poke my nose in, in regards to Poland. My apologies for the written intrusion.

[Il Palazzo]

The articles you've read might not have been wrong, per se. Just alarmist.
In that the farmers are indeed pissed off by the current grain situation and the opposition parties are trying to cash in - including the vaguely Putin-friendly one. Vaguely, because in the current climate any overt mention of dealing with Russia is a political suicide. And it might even gain more support riding on that internal crisis de jour. We're talking numbers around 10% support here as of today, up from ~7% in the previous elections. In our political system the 7% means they currently have something like 10 seats in the parliament, and may get to about 30 with 10%. Out of 460. This is marginal, and will remain so even if the popularity gains prove to be more than a blip.
And, again, the political climate is such, that there is absolutely no way the support for Ukraine goes away. Any party that'd try to pressure their coalition members in that direction would be regarded as utterly toxic.

Of all the EU states with similar pro-Russian parties (and which country doesn't have one), the Polish incarnation has probably been rendered the most toothless by the invasion.

[Starver]

As it is actual news-reporting, month-long-necro of this thread seems apt to highlight a report on the visible Russian defences. I can't but help think where my attack(s) would go, and which 'obvious' funnels I should do no more than pretend to fall into, but that's all way beyond my paygrade, and I won't spout it here.



(Also, BBC site seems to have removed its "top ten articles" footer. I can do without it, but annoying when I want to see a spread of what is 'popular' rather than dig into particular subjects that I watch. Ah well...) ((edit: It's back again. Or I just happened to read a dozen articles in a row that were all no-Top-Ten types, as some of them tend to be.))

[jipehog]

Everything is actual news plus our opinions about it.

Couple of weeks ago a detailed map exposing Crimea's Russian Military Facilities was released as well
https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/crimea-military-bases-map/32397787.html

[KittyTac]

Russian regional governor says Ukrainian 'sabotage group' crossed border

lol. lmao