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Jorge Tatay
@jortamar
The president of Slovakia is about to die due to an assassination attempt. The European president who was most committed to peace in Russia, who most criticized NATO. Coincidence? I don't believe it. We, the west, are lead by criminals
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
That’s a pretty tall accusation that Western leaders are behind a sitting European president’s assassination attempt. I understand it’s just “an opinion”, but in the absence of evidence, I’m not sure what the point is (everybody has an opinion, doesn’t mean it’s a productive discussion starter).
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Orban is also against helping Ukraine and he’s safe and sound, as a counter-example, despite being arguably more vocal and influential than Fico (who, by the way, is prime minister, not president).
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Chainleft
@chainleft
Being more in the spotlight is more protective tbh.
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
I think it’s the other way around. There are far more people who are aware of Orban and his political stance (and thus, a far larger subset of people who would be willing to harm him, given the opportunity) than of Fico, especially as Orban is seen as more influential and thus a greater threat to those who oppose him
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Chainleft
@chainleft
That assumes regular people harmed Fico out of anger, and not an organization. If it's an agency that plans things, they'd rather go for someone less notorious - keep plausible deniability, while signalling what happens to detractors
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Chainleft
@chainleft
Counter-argument to my point: CIA never acted that subliminally, they can always go for the biggest target and get away with it anyway. Even then, other political differences might've played a role. Both are Islamophobic, capitalist & populist but Fico criticized Israel & is economically slightly more nationalist.
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Perhaps. I'm reluctant to follow the conspo theory, though. For now the Interior Minister (from the same social-democrat nationalist party as Fico) has called the shooter, Juraj Chintula, a "lone wolf". By all appearances, this was the opportunistic act of one extremist
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