on May 18, 2024, 12:27 am
OK, this is just an opinion of one Slovakian commentator. Slovakia has been a deeply divided society apparently for some some time - she explains this very well. The Duran covers this event
But what I detect here in the West is the insistence of the blackness vs the whiteness of everything. Bush's your either with us or agin us. The EU vote - your in or your out.
Here's a country, like Hungary and other eastern Euopean nations, Bratislava to Moscow 1,000 miles and you can drive there, to Washington 4,500 miles and an ocean to cross. Even the name gives it away, Slovakia, Bratislava - a slavic country. Russia's a slavic country. There is absolutely no need to cajole or threaten Slovakia with consequences if they wish to continue some sort of healthy relationship with Russia.
So the idea that Slovakia has to make this false binary choice between one and the other is absurd. The idea, in the west, that any cooperation or acknowledgement of Russia and its leader, Mr Putin, is beyond the pale (an apt simile) is not just stupid, but dangerous. As the serious injured PM said just a few months ago, his job is to look after the interests of his countrymen, not those of external agencies. Now, Fico may indeed be something of an autocrat aks "populist" but the fact is that the Slovakians, in free elections, do keep voting him in. He's doing something right presumably.
And of course, in the UK any suggestion at all that we should be looking askance at NATO or thinking of negotiating with the monster Putin, you'll be shot down in flames, slurred, and subject to a very effective being sent to a distant political Coventry
It's just to be hoped that among the parallels to the times leading up to or around the First World War, that the attempted assassin's name isn't something like Princip, because the other parallels are fritghtening enough already.