European liberal elites seem unable to come to terms with reality. The likely winner of Croatia’s Presidential election on Jan. 12 will be the incumbent President Zoran Milanovic, who has been critical of NATO, the EU, anti-Russian sanctions and military support for Ukraine. He has sometimes been known as the Croatian Donald Trump.
Predictably, the London-based Centre for Information Resilience has launched a dirty operation against him, alleging that “Pro-Russian, anti-EU, and anti-NATO bot networks were found to consistently praise President Zoran Milanovic and amplify pro-Milanović content while disseminating anti-EU and anti-NATO messaging,” ahead of the first round on Dec. 29, 2024. As described by Politico: “One seemingly inauthentic Facebook account identified by researchers was found to post over 100 times a day,” a “pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign” on social media