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Update: He has been stabilized at the hospital and is expected to recover.
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Update: He has been stabilized at the hospital and is expected to recover.
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What’s the over/under on the attempted assassin being Russian?
Actually Fico ran on the pledge to stop Slovakian military aid to Ukraine.
“Populist” means far right Russian stooge these days.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66972984
Most of Eastern European politics can be boiled down to “Pro-western elitists vs. pro-russian populists”
So anyone can be behind that assassination attempt, even pro-Russians as a false flag. Poor fucker shouldn’t have taken the money
Zero…his electoral platform was basically “stop helping Ukraine”.
There’s no upside for an independent Russian resident of Slovakia to be a provocateur and potentially kill their ally, and nothing would reinvigorate weakening Western support for Ukraine than the Russian state attempting to assassinate a European head of state.
That is a possibility as a Russian would not care much for Slovakia and try to break unity in the west.
My first thought too. Putin is cleaning house internally. And this can just be a good move with fico not being loyal enough so you martyr him and get an even more usefull idiot in his place.