Slovakia's new prime minister Robert Fico says that Slovakia is not satisfied with some of the terms of the defense agreement with the United States. That's why Slovakia wants to reopen negotiations on the agreement that the country's previous government approved in 2022 with the United States.
Interviewed on Slovakia's RTVS television channel, Fico said that Slovakia had made an assessment of the defense agreement and had also compared its own agreement with the corresponding agreement of the Czech Republic. According to the prime minister, there is "not even an iota of sovereignty" left in the Slovak agreement, and therefore the government intends to open discussions on the agreement.
The Prime Minister stated that the agreement gives the United States, e.g. the right to use Slovak airports without any kind of permits, except for technical verification that no other planes are on the runway at the same time.
According to the prime minister, Slovakia also does not know what the United States brings to Slovakia with its planes or what is exported from there.
The same applies to US military convoys. No one can stop their passage, no one knows what is included in the transports and no one can ask what is in the transports, mentioned the prime minister.
Fico said that Slovakia has already informed the US ambassador that Slovakia wants to open negotiations on a defense treaty.
Prime Minister Fico announced that Slovakia also opposes Ukraine's NATO membership and will also tell the Prime Minister of Ukraine For Deniz Shmygal. "I am going to say that I am against Ukraine's NATO membership and I will also use the veto to prevent membership," said Fico in his interview.
Slovakia's prime minister warned that Ukraine's NATO membership could cause a third world war. Fico also reaffirmed that Slovakia is no longer going to provide Ukraine with armaments for its own army, nor weapons from the state's stockpiles.
The Prime Ministers of Slovakia and Ukraine are scheduled to meet soon. According to Fico, Ukraine does not want a joint press conference to be held in connection with the meeting of the prime ministers.
Slovakia is a NATO member country and decisions on NATO membership require the approval of all NATO countries.
Fico announced that Slovakia respects Ukraine's possible EU membership, "but they must fulfill the conditions of membership".
The country's defense minister Robert Kaliniak said earlier that Slovakia has not received the promised compensation for the MiG fighter jets handed over to the Ukrainian armed forces.
The decision to hand over the planes was made by Slovakia's previous government, which promised the United States and the European Union to give Slovakia 700 million euros in compensation for the fighter planes handed over to Ukraine.
Kaliniak also said that the country's previous government had left Slovakia without missile defense because the anti-aircraft missiles had been handed over to the Ukrainian armed forces, like fighter jets.
The Minister of Defense announced that he would act to rectify the situation.
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Are these problems in Slovakia also indicative of Finland? Jahka, people who have 100% common sense and reality will wake up from a rosy nato dream! It is pointless to believe that the future president will have any hope of trust or a champion of the interests of the citizens of Finland.
I guess it's a vain hope. The current disaster government will remain in power like a louse in tar, so there will be no change for more than three years and hardly even then. People are soft-headed and brainwashed.
Very interesting..!
Same words, this was very interesting, thanks! Now it will be interesting to see if Slovakia succeeds in returning its independent decision-making power to the Slovaks through negotiations, or if some "surprising" political scandal will hit Fico and start the color revolution in Slovakia?
Finland would still have an opportunity not to accept the DCA agreement or even to negotiate its terms, but hello, Finnish "MPs" - is anyone there awake?
Whenever social democratic alternatives have been available in Europe, Finnish social democrats have almost without exception and with unfailing instinct found the worst ones and narrowed down the best ones. Here they have a long tradition that started when Väinö Tanner was the only social democrat in Europe whom Hitler appreciated and agreed to shake hands with. With the stubbornness of a donkey, Tanner was forced into the leadership of the party even in the late 50s, even though the party knew that the gentleman was a red garment in the eyes of Moscow.
I can't remember a single upstanding European that they would have supported, but the worst ones like Tony Blair and his partners have passed and they have been immensely admired. Ahtisaari and Lipponen grumbled and talked when Finland couldn't really be coaxed into joining Blair in the Iraq war, but Lipponen assured that as soon as reconstruction begins, Finland will stand alongside the United States and Britain. While waiting for that... And at least Robert Fico is not suitable for them as a partner, god forbid, the man thinks of the best of his people.
"War can be a person's best time" - this was the title of Hesar's article some half a year ago, which told about mercenaries who had left as an extension of the forces in Kiev. Last week, a missile hit a mercenary camp, killing sixty, almost all French. How can the French be so focused, we wondered. Unless? Unless the French state was directly involved in the game. It was either a section of the Foreign Legion or a training group whose purpose was to instruct how to use weapons. That is, as the American philosopher Mike Tyson, also known as a boxer, would say: "Everyone has a plan - until they get really screwed".
Macron is angry with the Russians, because with its military operation in Syria and Ukraine, Russia has shown such an example that it has not surrendered to Western politics without a fight. Through the example, it has brought hope and enraged the former French colonies in Africa, which France has had a tight grip on until now, but now France has had to back down, e.g. Niger ista.
I suppose this is the main reason why Macron would be so happy to see Russia lose in Ukraine.
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Do you think the so-called Finnish media will show a picture of Moscow where these weapons sent by the West are lined up? That is, the ones that haven't been destroyed. There was already quite a row of them there last summer and they have hardly decreased. When this ends, you should go to Ukraine as a scrap dealer. You'll be a billionaire in no time. Forge them into forks for Africa. Kadyrov already has many pick-up trucks waiting as spoils of war. He is a car guy.