Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, in a video he released yesterday, blamed the West for creating a Frankenstein monster in Ukraine. The latest provocation was the threat of assassination made by Ukraine’s acting president Volodymyr Zelenskyy against Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Fico asserted that the “ruthless, crude violation” of international law by large and powerful states also “pushes others into a cowboy style of behavior.” Now, “What Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy showed when he threatened Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán crosses all red lines.”
Fico, who survived an assassination attempt (made by a man who confessed that Fico wasn’t getting weapons to Ukraine), explained further that Zelenskyy “constantly harms us and believes he can force us to abandon our peaceful stance for a war footing. He is completely wrong about that. He does not know me.” After recovering from several bullets fired into him, Fico returned to office in short order.
He continued in his determined fashion: “Oil supplies through Ukraine’s territory are vital for us. But it is clear the president of Ukraine has no intention of continuing them, which would mean huge losses for us.” And the European Commission has prioritized the interests of Ukraine, which is not an EU member, over “the vital national interests of Slovakia and Hungary as EU member states... I will continue to propose that the Commission compel the Ukrainian president, who has all the levers to do so, to allow a visit to the place where the pipeline was supposedly damaged. Our information and satellite images confirm [contrary to Zelenskyy’s excuses] nothing has happened to the pipeline. If we delay, I have no doubt that the Ukrainian president is capable of destroying the pipeline.”
Fico also vowed, according to RT, that his country “is ready to block a planned EU loan for Ukraine if Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is voted out of office in the upcoming election.” He explained on Facebook yesterday that it would be a justified means of compelling Kiev to resume Russian oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline.
