Slovakia’s new government under Prime Minister Robert Fico has rejected a plan to provide Ukraine with a military aid package that was approved by the previous government.
Fico, whose Smer-SD party won elections in October, campaigned to end military aid to Ukraine and has followed through on the promise. His government nixed the weapons package for Ukraine at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
According to Reuters, the military aid package included 140 KUB air defense system rockets, over 5,000 pieces of 125 mm cannon ammunition, and 4 million rounds of small arms ammunition.
Slovakia had provided significant support for Ukraine in the past, including Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets. The shipment made Slovakia only the second NATO country after Poland to give warplanes to Ukraine.
Fico has also criticized sanctions on Russia, and his government could make it more difficult to impose more. Up until this point, Hungary was the only EU nation that would work to stall or water down the bloc’s sanctions targeting Russia.
Fico’s election is one of many signs that support for the proxy war in Ukraine is waning in the West. As it’s become clear Ukraine’s counteroffensive has failed, and Ukraine’s top commander has acknowledged the war is a “stalemate,” Western officials have finally broached the idea of peace talks with Ukraine.
It took 20 years to “fail” in Afghanistan, we did it in Ukraine in under 2. A testimony to our efficiency. A new record may be in the making; one could argue we’re already failing in Israel.
Yes, but they are all victories for the MIC.
And shareholders.
Gruesome traitors to humanity.
How will Zelensky every buy more houses without military aid to sell on the black market?
How will Zelensky’s wife ever be able to go on another $1.2 million USD shopping spree for jewelry in Manhattan if he is not making more money?
He can sell his place in Florida, or his place in Italy.
Yes but the want to buy more houses not have fewer.
It looks like another independent country might fit in east of Hungary and Slovakia. It could very well be the size of democratically aligned Moldova and Odesa.
Democratic Moldova? It became democratic once it eliminated opposition, and suceeded like anywhere in the West to form governments executing policies contrary to public opinion.
Germany, France, UK — perfect examamples of wealth-controlled technocratic governance with the thin veneer of shell institutions. Represented by robotic politicians reciting stale phrases.
Yes but human intelligence is like a river traveling to the sea. Build a dam — it will fill with silt and the river will the erode the dam or go around it. Moldovan resistance and opposition seem awake yet I read little news from there.
reporter Max Blumenthal = “President Biden has accused the Russian government of genocide for its actions in Ukraine, where in two years it has killed as many civilians as Israel has killed in one month in the Gaza Strip. So how do you account for that disparity in assisting one country and accusing the other of genocide, when the country you are assisting has systematically killed so many more people in one month?”
State Department mouthpiece = “Those circumstances are totally and completely not the same. To make a comparison like that, candidly, is incredibly inappropriate.”
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/reporter-asks-state-dept-why-they-call-it-genocide-when-russia-kills-civilians-but-not-when-its-israel/
Great, now you have more reasons to fluff Putin.
there is something wrong with you.
starting right now i am ignoring you.
not a bad idea – he’s an ankle biter – never contributes a thought, never develops an idea. ‘daaah….putin-luvr!…daaaaah…’
so never a lick of work – ie, he’s a laze bag to boot. and to think his type call welfare cheats lazy.
‘block user’…’are you sure you want to block user?’…’yes’ That was easy…
i didn’t block him but if i hold my finger in front of my eye then i can’t see him and i can say “you’re not even there…”
Must be Don. He did me a favor and blocked me. Took away some of my entertainment but better to not have to read his nonsense anymore.
The Europeans have learned the truth. Putin is no threat, NATO is.
That’s right. Putin invading neighboring countries is truly not a threat. He should continue doing so.
I read that Biden has begun to focus his patented squinty-eyed gaze on Mongolia, of all places (saw it in RT). What, the US cavalry is now running short on ponies?
You saw it in RT? Then it must be true because RT news is definitely not considered MSM.
Lol
You won’t find out how your brainwashing is going if you limit yourself to national news monopolies.
Oh, so you do read MSM?
Rarely… Sometimes people send me articles.
They are wasting money. It is the NGO complex in sesrch of new funding. Mongolia is such a place. Get NGOs in to spend money on purchasing media assets, academics, judges, lawyers, social wokeness, and business not worried about the origin of money, All well oiled processes. The problem is — this business opportunity is well known to locals. Everybody makes money, but not buying stale dream.
Ukrainian troops (using white phosphorous weapons) deliberately destroyed what once was a nature reserve in the Kinburn Spit region.
a nature reserve. way to go guys. so it’s not a “war on terror”, it is a “war on mother nature” ?
hey what was that stuff that uncle sam dumped all over Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos ?
https://sputnikglobe.com/20231110/ukrainian-troops-use-white-phosphorus-to-wipe-out-nature-reserve-1114874705.html
No, white phosphorous is what Russia has been dropping on Ukrainian troops since the beginning of the war.
Have you not seen those videos of slow rains of fire at night against Ukrainian positions.
Not war on mother nature, It’s a war on Motherf*cker Putin.
Dude, you are ridiculous.
So nice of the Slovaks to “donate” 13 30+ year old fighters to Ukraine, “several of which cannot fly and will be cannibalized for spare parts”. Except….wait….Slovakia DIDN”T “donate” anything. As detailed in the link provided in the story above, they “exchanged” their old hanger queens, sending them to Ukraine where “according to Slovakia’s Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad, the country will be receiving compensation from its allies Slovakia will be granted $213 million from the EU and unspecified arms from the US worth $745 million.”
13 pieces of junk for $958 million; $75 million per hulk. Hell of a deal!
Almost as good as the one Slovenia got for their obsolete, unwanted, “modernized” T-55 tanks.
I’m glad Slovakia is dropping the pretense though; we in the USA really can’t afford to keep funding their “generosity”.