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I cannot fathom how Slovakians arrive at the conclusion that sucking up to Russia is in any way in their best interest?
I bet there's a lot of Russian propaganda behind it, but how does reality not beat propaganda? It's like a nation of 25+% anti-vaxxers!
I'd imagine corruption in government plays a huge role. Seems to be a lot of it these days.
Which is why they just voted for a corrupt oligarch who may have ties to the maffia and who may be complicit in the murder of a journalist.
As the Americans say, 'Drain the Swamp'.
Unfortunately the more corrupt side said it 😂
I think it's important to point out, that "winning elections" does not mean that the majority of Slovaks support them. They just won as a party with most votes. (23% so not even a quarter)
They just won the mandate to form a government for which they'll need at least two other parties to form a majority. The anti EU/NATO stance might be a problem here as it's not universally shared among possible coalition partners.
It is misleading to draw such a strong "Slovakia is pro-russian country" conclusion based on a single party getting the most votes, because many of the other parties that are at the very least silent if not outright pro-nato/eu with significant amount of the votes.
Even comparison to Hungary is a huge stretch as Orbán's party alone got more than 50% of the votes. As it is now, Smer has to form a coalition with other (in many ways more moderate) parties which is already not 100% given - it would not be the first time when the winning party ends up in opposition. And going forward they either avoid these friction points (so they end up acting more moderate) or they risk coalition breaking apart with early election or opposition forming government.
Well... yes, actually.
I don’t think they’re mainly pro Russian.
Maybe against NATO and US foreign policy.
Nowadays non G7 countries need to pick a side. And most have seen what American interference did to other countries.
For more information please visit: Iraq, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, and Afghanistan.
The absurd thing about Iraq (and Syria) is that the countries complaining most about immigration from the middle-east - Poland, Hungary, the UK, Italy, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, ... - happily joined Bush's war and arguably helped cause much of the last two decades of migration.
It would have been far fairer that only countries that were part of the 'coalition of the willing' were forced to accept refugees from Iraq or Syria.
Meanwhile countries like Germany, which warned against invading, got much of the blame of the inevitable wave of migration caused by an invasion they tried to prevent.
Same thing with climate change. The bastards who prevented doing anything about it, are now complaining about all the migration it's causing.
Voters in some countries, seem to think only the guy who's pissing on their leg, has the solution to ensuring their feet stay dry.
Well Smer is very much pro-Russian.