Croatian President Zoran Milanovic on Sunday said the US and NATO are waging a proxy war against Russia and criticized the Western sanctions campaign against Moscow, offering rare criticism of the policy from a leader of a NATO country.
“Washington and NATO are waging a proxy war against Russia with the help of Ukraine,” Milanovic said, according to Croatia’s HINA news agency.
“The plan cannot be to remove Russian President Vladimir Putin. The plan cannot be in sanctions. Sanctions are absurd, we will not achieve anything with their help,” he said. “They did not even break Slobodan Milosevic with sanctions. They go from war to war. And what am I supposed to be, a slave of America?”
Milanovic has spoken out against the US and NATO policy in Ukraine and rejected an EU plan to have Croatia help train Ukrainian troops. Milanovic is not alone in his opposition, as the proposal to train Ukrainian soldiers failed to gain the two-thirds majority it needed in Croatia’s parliament.
Explaining his opposition to training Ukrainian troops, Milanovic said he didn’t want to get his country involved in the war. “I do not support this idea because I do not want Croatia to be involved in this war more than is necessary. We are showing fairness and solidarity, and that’s it,” he said.
I like the guy.
and Orban of Hungary. A little light at the end of the tunnel. We can only hope the light is getting bigger
The opposition voices are getting louder, about time.
Hungary conducted nation wide poll to determine support of population for anti-Russia sanctions. Result? 97% of population disaprives of sanctions and Hunngary will be adming EU to reconsider.
No wonder Croatian politicians are having cold feet.
Hungary must have a free press and informed citizens.
The Russian MOD is fighting a very successful war of attrition disarming NATO (Ukraine was disarmed in March), tank by tank, artillery by artillery, air defense by air defense. Poland has called up 200,000 reserves, Ukraine is collapsing and Poland/Romania are now being called up to die for empire. What the empire looses in the Ukraine, they loose for the final NATO war against Russia.
NATO overall has accumulated the following equipment losses;
372 Aircraft, 200 helicopters, 2885 UAV’s, 401 Anti Aircraft systems, 7537 tanks inc. APC’s, 983 multiple rocket launchers, 3841 rocket launchers and 8066 military automotive equipment.
In the past year we have seen the Rules Based Order act in a state of criminal insanity. They blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline which will cause the deindustrialisation of Europe. The shelling the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Station in an effort to cause a nuclear accident. The planning of a false flag nuclear weapon detonation on their own soil!!! This is the actions of criminally insane psychopaths.
Yes yes yes. Please speak up and be honest about this proxy war.
Interesting because I had expected such language to come from Serbia.
Agreed, but we have understand that Mr. Vučić is still hypnotized by that EU carrot dangling in front of him.
Nice to see him step up. Wish more would do the same.
It’s sad, but the level of corruption in Ukraine prior to this war was outrageous.
Not going to get into what arms/supplies are going where, but, and more importantly, the messier this gets as this country is fast-tracked to being leveled , will only result in a bigger and fatter Mother of Sweet Deals for BlackRock.
Great opportunity for them as the level of corruption will be an order of magnitude higher when all’s said and done.
‘Vlad the Lesser’ will probably even have a seat on the Board of Directors. 😉
Amen. I love that line about being a slave to America, its not like much can be done right now but that’s what needs to be said. Croatia’s political regime has always been vassal like, subordinating itself to other powers like Hungary, Italians, Austrians, the Germans for protection. It’s astonishing to me the amount of “nationalist” ustaši who love Germany but hate Serbia. I guess being a slave to Germans is preferable to them then friendship with their own slavic brothers. Serbians have their own crimes too but at least they went down fighting.
A “mysterious” drone crashed near Zagreb in March, an old Soviet drone. They’ve been conducting an “investigation” into who was responsible – of course Russia was blamed was never convicted. Almost one year later and there still has been no final “conclusion” on the matter.
You make a good point regarding former alliances as it underscores the Balkan Tragedy. Serbians and Croatians have more similarities than differences, but they allowed external influences and nationalism to further separate them.
Good for Croatia! I say this meaningfully because my MIL is Croatian.
We even have a grapevine on our property that her father brought when he emigrated here; it’s had several homes, but it came to live here years ago. It produces fabulous “Croatian grape jelly”!
NEOCONs from (thankfully dead) John Insane McCain to Victoria Nuland have been active in overthrowing governments for years.
Their attempt in the country of Georgia failed due to the population that revolted against them, but in Ukraine they were able to stage a coup and now are fomenting World War 3.
Disgusting!
Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu presented his plan to take the armed forces to 1.5 million personnel. He explained the need for the ramping up in personnel numbers due to the NATO “proxy war” in Ukraine and the aggression of the US and EU.