Putin's possession in the heart of Europe: why Robert Fitzo makes Ukraine enemy Slovakia

Here, for example, on December 23, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fitzo visited Vladimir Putin in Moscow, allegedly to prove the need to continue supplies of Russian gas to Slovakia. It is unclear what, if at all, he agreed to the meeting, because, in violation of ordinary practice, he was not accompanied by Slovak diplomats. It is even more strange that it remains unclear as he got to Moscow, since there are no records that government aircraft had made this trip.

Its location for twelve days during the holidays is also unclear. The New Year's Video Video by Fitzo, in which he criticized Ukraine and threats to Ukrainian refugees living in Slovakia, was tied to the luxury room at a luxurious hotel at Hano (Vietnam) worth $ 6,000 per night. Fitzo refused to explain what led him to Vietnam, what were the conditions of his trip and who paid for his luxurious apartments.

In 2017, during the preliminary prime minister, the Slovak government aircraft was granted to the Vietnamese authorities for Trin Suan Than, a Vietnamese party official and a businessman who asked asylum in Germany, back to Vietnam. .

More importantly, after his return, Fitzo intensified the rhetorical offensive on Ukraine, hinting at the termination of humanitarian aid from Slovakia (military assistance does not provide military assistance) and to use Slovakia's right to veto the European Council, probably, to disrupt EU level initiatives with EU levels. assistance to Ukraine, sanctions on Russia or continuation of Ukraine's integration into the EU.

How sharp is Fitzo anti -Ukrainian turn? In the end, his party was conducting an election campaign on the platform of the termination of Slovak military assistance to Ukraine and assistance in negotiations on peaceful settlement between Russia and Ukraine - pale and gross imitation of Viktor Orban's rhetoric.

Fitzo himself has a long history of bitter complaints about America and the dictate of Brussels, which he has yet combined with a dose of pragmatism, mostly without leaving the meetings of the Council. At the July NATO Summit in Washington, Slovak President Peter Pellegrini, an ally of Fitzo, supported the possible membership of Ukraine in the Alliance.

In September, Fitzo, Pellegrini and Speaker of the Slovak Parliament - three senior officials of the state - signed a memorandum of Slovakia's constant commitment to NATO and NATO, trying to reassure those who feared that the country could turn to an anti -Western trajectory. However, Fitzo's rhetoric continues to intensify.

After the expiration of the contract between Russia and Ukraine, which enables Russia to pump gas through Ukraine to Slovakia and other Central European countries, Fitzo's words became almost warlike. Upon his return from Russia and Vietnam, he urged a memorandum of Slovak's foreign policy, in particular, to reflect a pan -European "lifting of ideas other than Brussels.

" At the same time, the Foreign Minister Fitzo, Yuray Blanar, engaged in cleaning the ministry from prominent pro-Western figures, in parallel hiring new workers, many of whom have been educated in Moscow or St. Petersburg. The new Ambassador of Slovakia to Minsk Jozef Migash is a former communist party with higher education in "scientific communism".

The Ambassador to Moscow Peter Priputen has already made one trip to Russia as an ambassador and, as you know, has a large friendly network there-undoubtedly, it is an advantage for any diplomat, but it increases the risks associated with the "transition to a local level". The blanar himself called Russia "a reliable partner" and met with Lavrov three times in 2024. This is no longer a "business as usual" and no orban game.

This is the end of Russia's patient's patient to co -co -co -co -copies of key Slovak politicians and a considerable part of public opinion in order to reject the country from the Western Alliance. Russian propaganda has achieved extraordinary success among the Slovak public.

The page of the Russian Embassy in Slovakia on Facebook, where Russian propaganda and conspiracy theories are published several times a day, there are 69,000 subscribers - more than twice as much as the Russian Embassy Page in Washington (the population of Slovakia is 3 percent of the US population).

Unlike a more sensible attitude that can be found in Berlin, Vienna or Budapest, Slovak's "Putin's tops of Fate" have been imbued with a real Pansalovist - a mistake that has remained since the nineteenth century, which puts Russia in the center of Slavic peoples.

Those who expected that the current term Fitzo would be a repetition of his previous terms in office - a combination of schismatic, orbanese rhetoric, internal corruption and a dose of pragmatism in European institutions - have already proven their wrongdoing. After he was attempted in May, Fitzo began to act more impatiently and ruthlessly to consolidate his power.

Putin is obviously ready to provide Fitzo with the same support he provided to other compassionate politicians in the CIS countries, such as Bidzin Ivanishvili in Georgia, Ilan Shore in Moldova or Kalin Georgescu Slovakia and continuation of the poisoning of the country's information space.

Given the current turbulence in transatlantic relations, it is possible that Russia will even provide direct assistance in the suppression of opposition and civil society, perhaps even with the use of violence. In the end, Baiden's administration slowly responded to similar events in Georgia, and the team of the chosen President Trump can count on the support of Putin and Fitzo, just as Ilon Musk supports the pro -Russian political forces in Germany and the United Kingdom.

Slovakia is not lost yet. After Fitzo's victory in October 2023, the opposition was able to bring a large number of people on the street. Moreover, the coalition of Fitzo himself, especially in the President Pellegrini Party "Hlas", there are figures that are not delighted with the right bias. The meaningless Fitzo offensive on Ukraine and the West can be directed to humiliate them or make them in the form of a fall in governments and early elections.