Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Saturday (20 January) alleged neighbouring Ukraine was not a sovereign nation but was under the absolute control of the United States, in embrace of a Russian conspiracy theory.

The populist politician, who is against military aid to the war-torn country and opposes sanctions against Russia, also reiterated his opposition to Ukraine’s bid to join NATO.

“Ukraine is not an independent and sovereign country,” Fico told public broadcaster RTVS. “Ukraine is under the total influence and control of the United States.”

Slovakia is a member of both NATO and the European Union.

Fico is due to meet his Ukrainian counterpart Denys Shmyhal on Wednesday in the city of Uzhhorod, western Ukraine, on the border with Slovakia.

“I will tell him that I am against the membership of Ukraine in NATO and that I will veto it,” Fico said.

  • TIMMAY@lemmy.world
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    Slovak PM is assisting the spread of Putin’s anti-Ukraine agenda ahead of elections. Slovak PM is firmly attached to putins nutsack by his mouth.

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    And that’s not even the worst thing he did/said. Can’t wait for Babiš to win Czech elections so 3 countries of the V4 will have a populist who’s stealing and murdering as a prime minister.

    So, which country wants a senior architect/developer? Seriously considering emigrating the last few months.

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      Plenty of work for you in The Netherlands… But then again the PVV with Geert Wilders was the biggest in our last elections so it’s not exactly progress.

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        Well, Germany has seen really big protests against our populist right-wing party, so that shows at least that still many people care enough.

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          My personal feeling (i think its called) is that protests only work when the thing your protesting cares that you are protesting… nazis dont care. But A for effort tho 👍

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    This is what a 20% election victory looks like when people can’t be arsed to vote.

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    How funny would it be if Ukraine just shrugged and applied for statehood instead in response?

    Like seriously, I’m pretty sure the main thing they’d have to give up control over is standards and measures and then the Interstate Commerce clause, pretty sure anything else they’d want to maintain control over they’d basically be able to.