On the 30th of this month Slovakia votes in a new government. Leading the polls currently is a government in waiting led by Robert Fico, a seasoned political campaigner and one of the leading European politicians calling for a halt to the prolonging of the war in Ukraine. If elected there would most certainly be a major shift in the Slovakian approach to both Ukraine and to Russia. Robert Fico is well known in Slovakia for a trip to Moscow after which he stated that it was not clear to him that the US-EU narrative on the origins of the war was correct.
Robert Fico as premier minister along with his party, SMER (‘Direction’) would at the very least be Russia-neutral in stance while advocating that everything possible should be done to promote a peaceful end to the conflict. Mr Fico’s stated policy is that Slovakia should no longer supply funds or weaponry to the Ukrainian regime with which to continue a war that it clearly has no chance of winning. His stance will without doubt virtually mirror that of Hungary’s viktor Orban, that hostilities should cease, a ceasefire called and negotiations between the two sides be started.
Slovakia’s addition to the present Hungarian stance on Ukraine cannot help but create a shockwave across the European Union. This in addition to the pro-Russian surge that is already well underway in Latin America (in Lula’s Brazil and with Argentina joining the BRICS) and the Global South where six new members including Saudi Arabia have joined Russia in the BRICS. At least thirty four additional nations are in line to also join at some point. Russia’s call for nations to trade using local currencies (i.e no longer the U.S. dollar) is being widely heeded. Russian delegations, including that of Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, are welcomed all across the world other than the increasingly isolated EU and USA.
All in all, with an expanding Russian economy, safeguarded from however many sanctions packages the EU and USA cobble together, Russia could with some merit be described as whole as ‘The Teflon Territory’, nothing the western powers wish to hurt Russia with sticks for any length of time. On the contrary, what is rapidly sticking is inflation, possible stagflation and likely recession across the collective west. While Russia is accepted in the figure of Vladimir Putin across most of the world, despite the West-promoted idiotic, counterproductive sham regarding him at the International Criminal Court, Russia (unlike its detractors) has little to concern it.
The war in Ukraine has clearly been won by Russia. All the wishful thinking misinformation western politicians and media notwithstanding, there is no win for the Ukrainian regime remotely in prospect. If the truth be told there never was unless the western powers via NATO decided to start a third world war by direct involvement. This is far, far too important to Russia in respect to its border and internal security for all time to give up on its goals or to be inclined in the slightest not to see them all through to 100% completion. All the cards are in Russian favour now, no matter how many other cards in the name of more money or weapons emerge from the western sleeve. Russia has this. And now this will be recognised to even greater extent with each passing day.
The transformation of Slovakia’s stance of both Ukraine and Russia will be just the latest of many clear indicators that views on what has happened in Ukraine and what is happening now will create a sea change in attitudes. Russia is going nowhere, she is here to stay. The foolish European and American political and media elites who underestimated her will have to eat crow pie and before long retreat from the idiotically irresponsible and wrong-headed approach they have taken until now. They will have to eat their vicious words against Russia that they have spouted for so long now (since 2007 and Putin’s Munich speech at least). That is if they are not overthrown by their recently vastly impoverished populations first.
In Slovakia, if the polls are correct we should see some of the first political dominoes fall. The European liberal elites will be aghast if so. Their fantasyland of delusions regarding Ukraine and Russia will evaporate and hopefully they will begin to attain a greater grasp of reality, take the road to pragmatic reason rather than vituperative ranting and slowly, but surely begin to join the pro-Russian surge now underway.
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