• @Hubi
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      I wouldn’t put it past the Russians to do something like this just to have a fictional boogeyman to whine about.

      • @someguy3
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        237 months ago

        “Of course I know him, he’s me.”

      • @[email protected]
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        I mean I wouldn’t either, it was one of my first thoughts. But idk if it adds up

    • @takeda
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      287 months ago

      When you talk to Slovakians they say that his death would be one of the best things to happen to the pro putin movement, as this would make him a martyr.

      I personally wonder how it will be as it looks like he survived and these news paint an interesting picture.

      • @[email protected]
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        Most Some of hid lackeys are blaming oposition and media for this since the news broke. No idea if he had a change of heart, but I doubt it. I can only see hin doubling down.

        If he switched sides, his political career is over - there would be nobody left to vote for him. Pro-Russian naratives got him back to being PM

  • Flying SquidM
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    377 months ago

    I called it! I totally called it!

    https://lemmy.world/comment/10072148

    I said it would be Russians and a bunch of people told me “no, he’s pro-Russian.”

    Doesn’t fucking matter. It’s about creating chaos. Putin doesn’t care if you’re loyal unless your loyalty is useful.

    • @ChicoSuave
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      And how a person is useful to Putin is entirely out of their control. If a person would be useful as a symbol, expect chalk outlines.

  • @tortillaPeanuts
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    337 months ago

    So this is all based on an X post that references two social media posts from 8 years ago… I think I’ll wait for more information, the guy is still alive and can tell investigators why he did this. It also just doesn’t make much sense.

    • @Cosmonauticus
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      27 months ago

      To be fair I heard on npr yesterday he was a poet from the leftist opposition. New details emerge with time. Can’t be 100% correct on a story developing across the ocean

      • @[email protected]
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        27 months ago

        That’s true overall.

        Although the example is from a notorious agenda pusher, so the chaos is a classic advantage to spread whatever

      • @[email protected]
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        27 months ago

        One local news site wrote that it might be a mistranslation, and a poet from Leva got to be leftist poet. Can’t confirm personally, my Slovak vocabulary is 20 words at maximum

  • @mojofrododojo
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    117 months ago

    Why would russia attack Slovak’s PM? Isn’t that guy kinda russian leaning already? According to Wikipedia, During the 2023 parliamentary election, Fico vowed to end military support for Slovakia’s neighbor Ukraine, which was being invaded by Russia.

    best I can come up with:

    “Look, you obviously don’t know anything about intelligence work, lady. It’s an X-K-Red-27 technique”

    • RubberDuck
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      One possible explanation: He was not pro Russian enough, so the Kremlin martyred him giving the fire of his party extra fuel to grow and install an even more hardline putinist in his place.

      • @mojofrododojo
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        Certainly plausible! I also wonder if Putin’s actual control over the situation is starting to get fuzzy.

  • @cosmicrookie
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    So they killed tried to kill one of their own?

    • @Olhonestjim
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      17 months ago

      In Russia, they don’t decide anything. Putin decides for them, and Putin doesn’t care about his pawns.

  • @Olhonestjim
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    37 months ago

    Saw that coming a mile away.

    • @ZapBeebz_
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      367 months ago

      Shinzo Abe was assassinated over his ties to/support of a New religious movement in Japan. Put your tinfoil hat back on and go to your room

      • @Red0ctober
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        57 months ago

        The Moonies are not a new movement. They have a long and troubling history in Korea, Japan, and the US. I highly recommend Falling Out for anyone interested in learning more about the cult.

        • @ZapBeebz_
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          77 months ago

          I know they’re not new; that’s just what they’re classified as on Wikipedia. It is “new” compared to Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, etc. The distinction is that the Unification Church came about within the last 75 years, and so is not one of the “old” religious movements.

        • @Fondots
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          One of my favorite scary facts about the moonies that I don’t see talked about much is that a couple of the founders sons had a falling out with the church, and went and started their own, even crazier church. They made the news a few years back doing some rifle blessings and some kind of mass wedding ceremony (also with rifles)

          Not for nothing, they also own kahr firearms

          • @Red0ctober
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            17 months ago

            Elgin gets into that in the podcast, and it just gets worse and worse.

    • @mean_bean279
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      247 months ago

      Dumbest take. Japan isn’t even part of NATO, and Abe was killed only 5 months after the start of the war. Abe was also mired in controversy within his own borders for a multitude of reasons.

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        207 months ago

        And he wasn’t PM anymore.