Buckwheat is so good if you fry onions, carrots and bacon, and then mix with boiled buckwheat.
Also if you don’t use multi-cooker - consider. It is a bit hard to get used to, but gives additional freedom in cooking everything from your list with meat.
It is just one point of view based on the limited information. If you check actions of core EU countries, you can see that they are cohesive + joint military exercise are happening quite often.