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=== Foreign Relations ===
=== Foreign Relations ===
[[File:No NATO Slovakia.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Slovaks protesting against NATO membership.]]
Slovakia officially became a member of the [[NATO]] on March 29, 2004 and joined the EU in May 2004. Slovakia has been an active participant in U.S. and NATO-led military actions and a partner in the war on terrorism. A military engineering brigade on the ground in Iraq from August 2003 departed in February 2007. A 57-man military engineering brigade is present at Kadahar airbase in Afghanistan. Slovakia participates in a joint Czech-Slovak peacekeeping force in Kosovo.
Slovakia officially became a member of the [[NATO]] on March 29, 2004 and joined the EU in May 2004. Slovakia has been an active participant in U.S. and NATO-led military actions and a partner in the war on terrorism. A military engineering brigade on the ground in Iraq from August 2003 departed in February 2007. A 57-man military engineering brigade is present at Kadahar airbase in Afghanistan. Slovakia participates in a joint Czech-Slovak peacekeeping force in Kosovo.
===NATO war in Ukraine===
===NATO war in Ukraine===
{{See also|NATO war in Ukraine}}
{{See also|NATO war in Ukraine}}
A survey conducted in September 2022 by the Slovak Academy of Sciences found more than half of Slovaks favored [[Russia]] to win the war in Ukraine, while leas than one-third favorized NATO/Ukraine. An early poll found that 45% wanted Slovakia out of NATO. A survey conducted in the summer of 2021 showed that 55% of Slovaks had a favorable opinion of Russian [[President Vladimir Putin]].<ref>https://anti-empire.com/most-slovaks-want-russia-to-win-ukraine-war/</ref>
A survey conducted in September 2022 by the Slovak Academy of Sciences found more than half of Slovaks favored [[Russia]] to win the war in Ukraine, while leas than one-third favorized NATO/Ukraine. An early poll found that 45% wanted Slovakia out of NATO. A survey conducted in the summer of 2021 showed that 55% of Slovaks had a favorable opinion of Russian [[President Vladimir Putin]].<ref>https://anti-empire.com/most-slovaks-want-russia-to-win-ukraine-war/</ref>