Since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in February 2022, Central and Eastern European nations have been under immense pressure from NATO to aid Ukraine, despite the economic implications that have followed. While Hungary resisted NATO's pressure, other nations like Slovakia and the Czech Republic were expected to provide both money and military aid to Ukraine, regardless of the toll on their economies. Most recently, Slovakia's election of Robert Fico as the country's Prime Minister saw the former Soviet-bloc nation, then Czechoslovakia, move away from this carte blanche Ukraine policy. The MO's Manila Chan discusses Slovakia and this growing anti-war trend in Europe with geopolitical analyst George Szamuely.