Anti-globalist Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, is unapologetic after receiving criticism from the EU establishment, with the usual cheering by the USAID-media.
Watch how Reuters approaches it:
“Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Friday his country wanted to develop relations with Russia, and he derided those in the European Union who he said created obstacles to his attendance at World War Two commemorations in Moscow.”
‘He said’? Fico traveled to Moscow despite the Baltic States’ ban on his plane – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania all denied authorization for Fico’s plane to cross their airspace to arrive in Russia.
According to radar data published online, the Slovak government’s special-purpose plane went to Russia taking a long detour via Hungary and Romania, over the Black Sea, Georgia, and then via Dagestan to the Russian Federation.
That’s what we can call ‘obstacles’.
Reuters reported:
“Fico broke ranks with the EU by visiting Moscow late last year, more than two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
He met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin late on Friday evening following the Red Square parade marking the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany.
[…] ‘As a head of government, I want to assure you that it is in my interest to have pragmatic relations with the Russian Federation’, Russian news agencies quoted Fico as telling Putin.”
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Fico reaffirmed that he opposed the creation of any new ‘iron curtain’ in Europe, and pledged to do everything so that East and West ‘can shake hands across a curtain’.
“‘Let us consider as a childish joke all the technical problems we confronted, created by our European Union colleagues’.
Putin said Russia appreciated Fico’s decision to attend despite the ‘logistical obstacles that were created. But you are nonetheless here’.”
Top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas was apparently furious over Fico’s presence in the Victory Day Parade. She said he should have been in Ukraine today rather than Moscow. ‘You are on the wrong side of history’, she said.
Poland’s PM Donald Tusk also tried to shame the Slovak PM for ‘daring’ to celebrate defeat of Nazism in Moscow: ‘A DISGRACE. Nothing more needs to be added here’ he stated.
But Fico is not a man to be cowered by words. He was shot 5 times by a deranged liberal activist, so ‘bad words’ won’t do the trick.
I reject the rise of a new Iron Curtain. The EU urgently needs to return to common sense, because the current proposal to completely cut off Russian energy supplies is not a plan for economic independence, but for suicide. pic.twitter.com/kjmi9bgbFJ
— Robert Fico (@RobertFicoSVK) May 8, 2025
Dear Mrs. High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas pic.twitter.com/zRnpt66cqR
— Robert Fico (@RobertFicoSVK) May 9, 2025
“DEAR MRS. HIGH REPRESENTATIVE OF THE EU FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, KAJA KALLAS
Dear Kaja, once again I have taken note of your statements directed at me in connection with today’s visit to Moscow and the announced meeting not only with the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. You claim that I am supposedly not on the right side of history, or make other similarly profound geopolitical remarks.
First, I am in Moscow to pay tribute to more than 60,000 soldiers of the Red Army who died while liberating Slovakia. I do not see what these brave individuals have to do with the current international situation.
Second, as a high-ranking official of the European Commission, you have absolutely no authority to criticize the sovereign Prime Minister of a sovereign country who approaches all European matters constructively.
Third, I disagree with the policy of a new Iron Curtain, which you are working on so intensively.
Fourth, I ask you: how can diplomacy and foreign policy be conducted if politicians are not supposed to meet and engage in normal dialogue on issues where they hold differing views?
Respectfully, Robert Fico”
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