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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Europe that it cannot withstand Russia without Ukraine’s military, calling Ukraine’s victory vital to stopping Kremlin expansion.

Speaking to Polish media, Zelenskyy stressed that Russia’s larger, more brutal army would target other European nations if Ukraine falls.

He criticized Western allies for underestimating Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions, urging them to strengthen Ukraine’s defenses.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I never claimed climate change couldn't cause increased prices. But EU has lots of spare farmland that farmers are paid to NOT use to REDUCE production to avoid huge stockpiles like we had in the 70's.
EU can increase production a lot if we want.

So as I wrote EU is not and is not likely to become dependent on Ukrainian grain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

That and at least here in Germany we also use tons of land to grow energy plants such as rapeseed (apparently that alone uses 10% of all farming land), which imo is just incredibly inefficient. In case of an emergency at this scale i'd imagine that would be turned back to producing something like weat.

We could also simply produce a bit less meat, which is similarly inefficient in howmuch you need to feed the animals per kg of product.