Let’s get one thing straight: Robert Fico has called for an inquiry into the Covid jabs, he rejects the World Health Organisation’s “pandemic treaty” but, above all, he opposes escalating the war in Ukraine.
He calls it a “Russian-American conflict” and that is enough to make him enemies among the neo-liberal Atlanticists.
The press was quick to call the shooter a "lone wolf" — surely an unnecessary observation since the 71 year-old was filmed firing the shots (unlike Lee Oswald in 1963).
At least five state-corporate news outlets immediately declared him to have no political ties. On the other hand the venue in Handlova on May 15 was a closed government event. How he knew or gained entry is not explained.
Although Fico is a right-leaning politician, NATO voices like Anders Åslund are declaring the shooter was a pro-Russian right winger.
Olaf Palme’s killing has never been solved. Although he was a left-leaning politician, it was initially blamed on a 33 year-old leftist.
Palme was an opponent of South African Apartheid and financially supported the African National Congress. He opposed the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Others link his assassination to the Bofors arms company contract with India, and a scandal involving British middlemen. Yet others look to Operation Gladio and the death squads linked to Propaganda Due — a rabbit hole well known to researchers — or extremists among Swedish police, or Swedish businessmen (Skandia insurance company) or the Kurdish PKK, or the Yugoslavs.
The alleged leanings of Sweden’s business elite were the subject of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy — “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and its sequels.
The immediate point, as with Palme: don’t expect a straight answer.
You can find any number of speculations as to the motives of Fico’s would-be assassin. All of this distracts from the fact that Robert Fico, like Olaf Palme, is a politician who took a stand against the political in-group of the day.
Painting the narrative
I had just finished an article on the NATO-linked Alliance Of Democracy (AOD) and narrative control when Slovakia’s premier Fico was shot.
Within minutes the BBC proved my point, a reporter crowing: "Brussels is very worried about the direction Robert Fico is taking his country." [1]
It portrayed the victim as somehow guilty of his own attempted murder, which is a way of dictating who is “one of us” and who can be justly eliminated — in the service of uniformity, group think and the greater good.
Just imagine if the victim had been British prime minister Rishi Sunak (substitute the face of any globalist).
To The Washington Post the most salient point was that Fico is "pro Russia." Britain’s Telegraph: “How Robert Fico turned Slovakia into one of Russia’s only allies.
The BBC’s Prague correspondent Rob Cameron used the same talking point in his article. “The attempt on Robert Fico’s life comes as Slovakia experiences yet another period of political turmoil — turmoil that he himself has largely created.” [2]
Another commented: "In the past he's expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin" and he is "extremely close to Viktor Orbán of Hungary — he's that illiberal prime minister known for his close ties to the Kremlin."
Watch Orbán’s interview with Tucker Carlson and you'll see that this propaganda has no basis in reality. [3]
Moreover, Orbán is a Zionist; Fico is not, which means they disagree strongly on Israel.
It is the neo-liberal “centre” that has revived the Cold War over two decades since the response to Nine-Eleven, described by Gen Wesley Clark as a plan to invade “seven countries in five years.”
Hungary’s foreign minister points out the hypocrisy of criticising East European countries for opposing sanctions, while EU countries secretly import Russian oil via third countries.
What stands out, apart from the uniformity of the media, is its mind-numbing lack of nuance.
As Lily Lynch points out in New Left Review, “Unlike uber-Zionist Viktor Orbán, with whom he is often compared, Fico has also criticized the hypocrisy of European leaders in refusing to acknowledge Israeli atrocities in Gaza.” [4]
War in Ukraine was provoked, former German chancellor Angela Merkel admitted in interviews with Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, in Dec 2022.
The timetable for negotiations, from the German, French and Ukrainian side was a sham, she said. The Minsk talks were just “an attempt to give Ukraine time… to become stronger” — in other words, not to reduce the bloodshed in the east of Ukraine but to increase it.
Hungary’s foreign minister Péter Szijjártó says Western Europe’s leading NATO members are still importing Russian oil via India, while criticising nations who honestly admit they are reliant on Russian gas or nuclear technology. [5]
Fico’s offence
He not only exposed Western hypocrisy and sanctions on Russia.
Fico opposes Ukraine joining NATO, which given the alignment of NATO and the European Commission makes him an enemy in Brussels.
What the BBC did not tell you is that he pledged to investigate his government’s Covid 19 response and the corrupt policies that killed his countrymen.
In December 2023 calling the WHO Pandemic Treaty "For social consequences, look to Lenin and the Reich, invented by greedy pharma companies." Just days ago he rejected the treaty.
Dr Meryl Nass MD Tweeted: “Globalism 2.0. Now not only African PMs are killed who stand in their way?”
What Dr Nass is referring to is the number of African leaders died during the Covid response, which most of them opposed.
“The mortality rate of national government ministers and heads of state has been substantially higher than that of people with a similar sex and age profile in the general population, a trend that is driven by African cases (17 out of 24 reported deaths worldwide, as of 6 February 2021)." [6]
Blinken’s diktat
Slovakia is not the only country in the cross hairs. Politicians who oppose war in Ukraine are gaining in polls. In neighbouring Czech Republic Andrej Babis’ ANO party is leading in the race for next year's parliamentary election. Together with Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia and Serbia opposition US and European Commission support for Ukraine.
Nor is the war going well for NATO-EC.
While U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken played guitar — Neil Young's “Rockin' in the Free World” — in a Kyiv bar called Diktat… exhausted Ukrainians, lacking weaponry, are being pushed by Russian forces in the direction of Kharkov and perhaps thence the Dnieper river.
NATO countries are emptying their scarce stocks of weapons, said German chancellor Olaf Sholz, promising another Patriot missile battery.
The only way a de-industrialised Europe, that is lacking energy, having closed its nuclear plants (Germany) and having put itself on a strict Green diet, or an energy hunger strike, is to transform into a war economy, diverting resources from the people to the state.
That would entail strict social changes: think Lenin's war economy or the Third Reich. War is the answer to a financial cul de sac, and also the crisis that provokes change.
Narrative is all
Leaving aside the timing of the Alliance of Democracies conference, the last NATO summit was the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Feb 2024 when Alexei Navalny died. His widow was present as opening guest speaker.
A cynic might say that these deep state workshops are accompanied by real life illustrations of narrative control.
If you think that’s an exaggeration, Palantir’s Alex Karp told CNBC this month: “If we lose the intellectual debate you will not be able to deploy any army in the West, ever.”
For billionaires like Karp who profit from the forever wars, you’re talking about serious money.
If you want historial context, look up Peter Power and the rehearsal he was running in London when the bombings happened in July 2007, in the exact place he was running the rehearsal. [7]
For cover-ups, check out the attack on the USS Liberty in June 1967.
Looking around
Narrative creates alibis for land and oil grabs. Previously it was a war on foreigners (the War on Terror) but increasingly on their own citizens, under the pretext of keeping them safe (the Covid response) or finding fault in the population.
It contains the seeds of its own destruction. However robust the narrative, when people’s daily life conflicts with the what they hear from the telly box in the corner, they begin to question. And when they question they look about themselves, and then they begin to doubt.
No narrative can withstand the clash with people’s lived experience. We see complaints at the World Economic Forum ever since the Covid response that people are not trusting “elites.”
Navalny parallel
These aims — war abroad and suppressing the population at home — are linked.
A few weeks ago a small article came out about Alexei Navalny, which said Russian president Vladimir Putin had nothing to do with the death of NATO’s favourite Russian dissident.
The state corporate media had claimed Putin, seeking re-election as president, had wantonly murdered a Western poster child (Navalny was promoted in the West but did not register on the Russian electoral scene). The media did not apologise, nor admit its illogic.
This, sadly, is the level of debate you get from the MSC and AOD. So what are we to conclude about Fico?
The attack could be random — the shooter was “poet and peace activist” on the one hand and a far-right extremist associated with Russian nationalists on the other. The illogic and misdirection is par for the course.
The message is clear. Britain’s prime minister has inflamed fears of a threat to the personal safety of politicians. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and British security chiefs have warned that Russian intelligence and groups linked to the Chinese state were attempting to target British institutions and individuals, including lawmakers. This week he offered “cyber protection” to politicians.
Rep Mike Turner of Ohio has warned of a “serious national-security threat” to the U.S. and you can expect more such talk as we approach elections.
Real or not, such talk helps lawmakers seem warlike and important.
Slovak politicians, in a show of solidarity in Bratislava, accused the state corporate media of stoking hatred and appealed for calm. The BBC dropped the live broadcast the moment that Slovak officials criticised media lickspittles.
Journalists take a side, in a situation they admit is polarized. The narrative comes straight from the Munich Security Conference, the Alliance of Democracies and the organisations behind them, including NATO and its “think tank” the Atlantic Council.
Quelling dissent
The question is why. The reason is dissent in the ranks of NATO and the EU.
The quickest way to whip the citizenry in line, is to use fear. The current bogeyman is polarization and nationalism — the objective is borderless uniformity.
The spectre of the faceless terrorist was replaced by the "white Christian nationalist," a category that did not exist until created by America's FBI — but don't worry if you don't fit that description. You'll have your 15 minutes of fame.
Two months ago Slovakia's PM Robert Fico said: "I argue that the Western strategy in Ukraine is not working."
The upside is that most people had no idea of Slovakia’s stance until this assassination attempt. Now it rings loud and clear. The BBC and other state-corporate outlets will shriek ever more loud and shrill as they try to drown out rational voices.
I you are not familiar with Operation Gladio, the BBC actually produced a good documentary about it in 1992. The description for the video is as follows:
Originally aired on BBC2 in 1992, 'Operation Gladio' reveals 'Gladio', the secret state-sponsored terror network operating in Europe.
This BBC series is about a far-right secret army, operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO, which killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame the deaths on Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades and other left wing groups. Known as 'stay-behinds' these armies were given access to military equipment which was supposed to be used for sabotage after a Soviet invasion. Instead it was used in massacres across mainland Europe as part of a CIA Strategy of Tension. Gladio killing sprees in Belgium and Italy were carried out for the purpose of frightening the national political classes into adopting U.S. policies. Director Allan Frankovich
Sadly, these terror tactics used by the Western empire work. Who now is prepared to be as brave as this guy?
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