Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico called out the “elephant in the room,” the imminent and “mortal danger” of full-scale warfare. He declared in a Sept. 19 video address:

“We face a mortal danger.” The West is “pouring fuel to the fire” by supporting Ukraine to no avail. “The failure of the strategy to destroy Russia through the war in Ukraine has ​led some Western politicians to believe that if the goal cannot be achieved through the Ukrainian army and full support for it, then every effort must be made to trigger a conflict between NATO ​and Russia.”