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NATO member will withdraw troops in case of war with Russia – president – ​​RT Russia and the former Soviet Union
GWN ^ | Jan. 25, 2022 | GWN

Posted on 01/25/2022 8:28:55 AM PST by bgill

Croatian President Zoran Milanovic has announced that Zagreb will withdraw its troops from NATO contingents stationed in the region if the situation escalates into a full-scale conflict.

Speaking in a televised address on Tuesday, the leader said he saw “reports that NATO – not a separate state, not the United States – is increasing its presence and sending reconnaissance ships.”

He insisted that the Zagreb authorities “have nothing to do with it and we won’t have anything to do with it, I guarantee that.”

“Not only will we not send the army, but if there is an escalation, we will call back to the last Croatian military,” he added. said Milanovic. “It has nothing to do with Ukraine or Russia, it has to do with the dynamics of American domestic politics, [US President] Joe Biden and his administration, which I supported.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: croatia; falseflag; hoax; propaganda; russia; trolls; usa; war
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To: srmanuel

It’s all fun and games until someone shoots an archduke.


41 posted on 01/25/2022 9:29:21 AM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: wiseprince

If Russia going up to the Ukraine border is an offensive act…then so is NATO going up to the Russian border.
Ukraine is Putin’s red line.
Has been for decades.


42 posted on 01/25/2022 9:30:36 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: PGR88

“Ukraine has told the Biden neocons to stop with the war-talk”

My remote co-worker who is in Ukraine, told me they are shot at how western media is talking this up.

They did not think Russia would invade a week ago, but now because of the war-talk they think this could trigger the war.


43 posted on 01/25/2022 9:31:57 AM PST by DEPcom (Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
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To: srmanuel

You’re aware that piss ant country has no obligations to join in a war over a non NATO country?


44 posted on 01/25/2022 9:31:58 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: Verginius Rufus
I wonder if Biden will retaliate against Croatia.

He just old-man yelled at Milanovic "You stupid son of a b*tch, we have f-15s, nukes! We can go to war with you, too."

45 posted on 01/25/2022 9:33:19 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: JesusIsLord

The Coatian MP to the European Parliament has been quite outspoken in his rejection of the lockdown politics of COVID, the dangerous injections and the push to digitalize people’s IDs and access to the internet. In fact, he spoke directly to Macron’s face in Parliament saying that if people die after receiving a COVID19 vaccination, it’s still murder!

I think Milanovic believes Ukraine is a convenient cover for the EU, UK and the USA for their disastrous mishandling and corruption regarding the pandemic.


46 posted on 01/25/2022 9:35:28 AM PST by Madam Theophilus
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To: teevolt
NATO should be wound down. I think there are 33 member countries, whom basically rely on America for defense. Too much, especially considering main threat is now in the east, China. Europe can have their own military agreements at this point. Just not a fan of America picking up the defense costs of Europe so they can be socialists and look down on us.

NATO should be downgraded to a "friendship" agreement, if there's a such thing at all.

Then E.U. can develop a rapid reaction army to defends its border and stand up to increasingly assertive Russia because Americans are going to stay in its backyard this time.

47 posted on 01/25/2022 9:35:36 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: teevolt
NATO should be wound down. I think there are 33 member countries, whom basically rely on America for defense. Too much, especially considering main threat is now in the east, China.

NATO is a JOKE. Its a huge bureaucracy, about as nimble, united and effective as the United Nations. AND they now have 33 "trip wires" set throughout Europe. All the risk and no real security. Sheer stupidity.

In 1991, NATO, if it survived, should have been pared down to Germany, USA, & UK (and maybe France). That's all. Instead, they have created the Detroit department of motor vehicles in Brussels. But maybe that was the globalist intent. IDK.

And yes, we ARE driving a European Russia into the arms of China. More stupidity.

48 posted on 01/25/2022 9:38:20 AM PST by PGR88
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To: bgill

I guess it’s possible that Croatia joined NATO for mutual defense, rather than to be pawns in some Wag The Dog crap.


49 posted on 01/25/2022 9:53:36 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: silverleaf

I understand that, but saying basically you are going to cut and run at the first sigh of conflict is not acting in good faith.

BTW, last time I checked Croatia spends less than 2% of their GDP on defense, which is a NATO Treaty Requirement, if you are going to spend less than you should, then at least offer some degree of support and not announce beforehand at the first sign of conflict I’m leaving.

I don’t want war in any manner whatsoever, but we can’t have supposed allies cutting and running before any conflict begins and hope to offer any credible defense.


50 posted on 01/25/2022 10:01:05 AM PST by srmanuel (`)
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To: JesusIsLord
Could someone please translate whatever it is that Milanovic is saying?

He's saying, the US is trying to start a war to save it's economy.

51 posted on 01/25/2022 10:08:36 AM PST by viewfromthefrontier
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To: MercyFlush

I think the story is true, but the context is that the Croatian PM is pro-west, pro-nato, and friendly to Ukraine, and the Croatian President is pro-Russia. They have been in conflict with each other over this situation for a while now.


52 posted on 01/25/2022 11:48:20 AM PST by Wayne07
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To: srmanuel

Ukraine is NOT in NATO
Croatia has no treaty obligation to defend them.
Maybe they could be like France and send 50 soldiers to Romania


53 posted on 01/25/2022 1:50:16 PM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: silverleaf

I understand that perfectly well, no one expects them to put their entire military on the front lines if a war were to break out, but open say if fighting starts they are going home is not being a good partner in NATO.

Whatever capabilities they have they could be put to good use.

I don’t want war under any circumstance, but I’m not naive enough to believe a war couldn’t break out, given how Biden has been wrong on just about every foreign policy issue in the USA for the last 40 years, I have no confidence Biden is going to get this situation handled correctly, but a war is much more likely if NATO members start running home before anything really happens.


54 posted on 01/25/2022 2:13:02 PM PST by srmanuel (`)
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To: wiseprince

“Or...NATO isn’t supposed to be offensive in nature. I’d say going right up to the Russian border is fairly seen as an offensive move.”

Russia will argue that, but as long as NATO troops stay within NATO countries, it is defensive. Once they cross into non-NATO countries, such as Belarus, or into Russia itself, then it is offensive. Hell, going into non-NATO Ukraine is arguably an offensive move, unless the legitimate government of Ukraine requested it. Even at that, it is a legal question, subject to “interpretation.”

Russia vs Ukraine is not our fight. I have no problem with sending Ukraine weapons and hardware, but I am very much opposed to sending US troops to Ukraine.


55 posted on 01/25/2022 2:56:09 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six

The Balkans wasn’t our fight neither, but NATO went there, even though no NATO states were involved. That’s when the Russians got real jittery.


56 posted on 01/25/2022 2:57:02 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

“I guarantee if Croats go into Russia, Serbia will attack Croatia.”

Could be.


57 posted on 01/25/2022 2:58:14 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: viewfromthefrontier

Alternatively, Mialnovic may be saying that some Ukrainians with dirt on Bidet & Son have been blackmailing the US: Keep arming and bribing us, or we squeal.


58 posted on 01/25/2022 3:00:31 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: srmanuel
It’s sort of like 1914 all over again

Except nukes have replaced the Maxim gun.

59 posted on 01/25/2022 3:02:52 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: dfwgator

“The Balkans wasn’t our fight neither, but NATO went there, even though no NATO states were involved.”

Yeah, and I was very much opposed to that, as well.


60 posted on 01/25/2022 3:04:13 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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