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Old 03-16-2023, 04:10 AM   #10527
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction View Post
Yeah, the Czech leaders may want to keep supporting Ukraine, but there is increasing dissent at the street level. Five months of steady anti-NATO protests increasing in size and intensity. One of them even drew 70,000 people which is pretty significant for a small country.

The protests tend to be organized as anti-poverty and anti-inflation demonstrations, but have been devolving into anti-NATO themes.
Living decades under Russian rule will leave some people thinking Russia is their friend.

I don't see this stuff very significant in the big picture of where Czech is with NATO. Again, there was JUST an election where this was a major topic, and unless I'm mistaken, the biggest eurosceptic candidate got less than 5% of the vote.

Most of that kind of demonstration stuff is about internal politics anyway, and there's also been pro-Ukraine demonstrations with tens of thousands of participanrs.

Sure, there's a significant portion of the population that doesn't want to be involved in the war, but it's worth remembering that that gets conflated with the question of Ukrainian refugees, which genuinely are a drain on Czech economy currently.

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