Robert Fico is not a well known head of state (Slovakia only has five million people), but the truth has a power all its own. From Vasko Kohlmayer at lewrockwell.com:
“Slovakia’s Prime Minister, Robert Fico, conveyed to Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, on Oct. 26 that his government would not be providing military assistance to Ukraine,” announces a recent news report.
Shortly before Robert Fico – who had just been sworn in as Slovakia’s prime minister – traveled to Brussels to inform the EU leadership of the change in Slovakia’s position on the war (Slovakia had been previously a Ukraine supporter), Fico spoke to the Slovak parliamentary committee in his country’s capital. He told the assembled Slovak MPs that “an immediate halt to military operations is the best solution we have for Ukraine.” He also said that there could be no military solution to the war and that the European Union “should change from an arms supplier to a peacemaker.” For good measure he vowed not to support additional sanctions on Russia if they should be detrimental to his country’s interests.
Many people have never heard of Slovakia, a country of five million in central Europe. Nevertheless, the statements by its named minted prime minister are deeply significant because no leader in the Collective West has yet spoken with so much moral clarity about the disastrous war in Ukraine.
The only other Western leader who has voiced his reservations about the West’s enthusiasm for the war is Viktor Orban of Hungary. Orban even went so far as to meet recently with Vladimir Putin in China, seeking to position himself as a broker in an effort to bring some kind of negotiated political solution to the conflict.
