"[in Poland & Hungary] populist parties have always relied on farmers, and they haven’t done much for farmers at all in the last couple of years,” said Scott Reynolds Nelson, a historian at the University of Georgia...'Suddenly they’re trying to do something quick to get farmers on their side, and a very simple thing to do is to threaten to cut off' Ukrainian grain." https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/20/ukraine-grain-europe-eu-import-ban-poland-hungary/