Russia Ukraine war, page-174

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thanks to Croatia's President. "Croatia will not send any troops in case of an escalation," said Zoran Milanović. "On the contrary, it will recall all troops [from NATO], to the last Croatian soldier!"

This is notable, because it isn't coming from a Euroskeptic with a history of picking on NATO. Milanović is a member of Croatia's center-left Social Democrat party, which is strongly pro-European. But even many sympathetic to Europe want no part of conflict with Russia.

Mr. Milanović went further, and made two points that are almost universally banned in the West.

1. He pointed out that the Ukraine conflict is happening on Russia's door step

2. He said that NATO "must reach a deal that will take account of the security interests of Russia."