In fact, only days before the assassination attempt, the Slovak Government announced that it would not support the current version of the new pandemic treaty or the draft amendments to the International Health Regulations. It would not support any documents that weakened its position as a sovereign state, declared the Health Ministry.
There has been much online speculation that these are the reasons for the attempted assassination but the most likely cause is Fico’s opposition to the Ukrainian war.
The man who shot Fico, Juraj Cintula, was the founder of the ironically named “Against Violence” movement and was a prominent pro-Ukrainian activist. He often attended rallies where he has been recorded shouting “Long live Ukraine”.
Fico wasn’t pro-Russian but he didn’t follow the rest of the world in turning anti-Russian. He was more of a Russian pragmatist. So it comes as no surprise that the massively anti-Russian MSM almost justifies the assassination attempt due to his support for a Ukrainian peace deal.
Not only that but they suggest he is being paid by the Kremlin and connect him to Hungary’s Orban. This tenuous link suggests that because they don’t like Orban and Fico is a bit like Orban, the assassination attempt was inevitable.
The NY Times did a similar thing in print - Fico is an ally of Putin and Orban so what do you expect?
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