https://www.thedefensepost.com/2024/01/23/croatia-military-conscription/
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/48472-john-humphrys-time-for-conscription-to-make-a-comeback
In both Croatia and the UK there is a renewed call for conscription. The statements made by General Sanders of the UK are very troubling as he speaks in terms of mass mobilisation, citizen armies, and preparation for war.
Croatia was quick to sign up to America's suggestion of
creating an LNG infrastructure, and now in this new deal with Austria and
Bavaria, that capacity is set to double. Croatia is set to become an energy hub
for southern and central Europe as LNG can be brought in via the Adriatic.
https://news.yahoo.com/cruz-offers-swap-nord-stream-181728222.html
No one can seriously accuse the Democrats of being soft on
Russia. If anything they've led the militaristic charge against Moscow since
the late Obama administration. In 2014, the US backed a coup in Ukraine leading
to the Russian annexation of the Crimea and Putin's open support for
separatists in the Donbass – the already rocky relationship quickly soured. And
when Russia intervened in the US proxy war in Syria, and thwarted plans to oust
Assad, relations grew hostile.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/croatia-kicks-off-lng-terminal-in-north-adriatic/
Rising from the fragmented war-torn disaster that was
Yugoslavia, Croatia has been attempting to break with any 'Eastern' association
and root itself firmly in the Catholic-Enlightenment West. This is essential to
the Croat identity. Though of the same genetic stock as the Orthodox Serbs and Muslim
Bosniaks, their history has been defined by alliance to the Habsburgs – in
other words to the Latin West.
