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Nate is a common phonetic shorthand for NATO, which is explicitly linked to Slovakia through its membership and strategic policy discussions regarding European strategic autonomy as described in [1], [2], and [3].

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Independence play: Europe's pursuit of strategic autonomy ecfr.eu European Council on Foreign Relations 2 facts
perspectiveSlovakia supports the pursuit of European strategic autonomy (ESA) primarily because it recognizes the need to strengthen the European pillar of NATO.
perspectiveSlovakia views European strategic autonomy (ESA) efforts as compatible with NATO, provided that Europe avoids delinking, duplicating, or discriminating between the activities of the two.
The Geopolitics of the Russian-Ukrainian War: Implications for Africa ... eu-opensci.org European Journal of Development Studies 1 fact
claimThe Russian military is constrained from positioning forces along the entire 650-mile eastern border of Poland, as well as the eastern borders of Slovakia and Hungary and the northern border of Romania, due to the NATO membership applications of Sweden and Finland.