 The foreign policy of the United States is cited by the party as one of the reasons for why the party wants Slovakia to leave NATO.The other reason is the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.On February 2, 2017, Marian Kotleba and his party spoke against sending a contingent of 152 Slovak soldiers on a NATO training mission in Latvia near the Russian border, stating that it was a clear provocation of the Russian Federation by NATO.