Good West Coast afternoon, everybody.
Seems that Robert Fico's stooging for Putin wasn't enough to keep him safe from assassination by, well, Putin. Probably an effort to cause chaos in a NATO state close to the Ukrainian border.
@LiberalLibrarian ^^Oh, and a fondness for the Kremlin.
I don't know.
@janallmac If the assassin has ties to Russian intelligence, as I posted, this was most likely an attempt at destabilization of a NATO member. Ironic that Fico's fealty to Putin didn't spare him.
@LiberalLibrarian
Social media enables quasi-military action without military nonsense like chain of command, accountability, etc. Why train, equip, and dispatch an assassin when you can foster an FB group that will eventually inspire some bozo to do the job with his own tools for free while you disclaim all responsibility, deplore, etc.?
This is like corporations dodging labor law by contracting out. If the contractor abuses his workers, the corporation can plead ignorance, deplore, etc.
@LiberalLibrarian
Gosh, LL, you read my mind. I've been sitting here wondering what the geopolitical ramifications of Fico's attempted assassination might be.
Disclaimer: I only just heard about Fico today and then people started comparing him to Archduke Ferdinand. 😬 And I was like, oh great here we go.
But this sort of sounds like maybe it's just a single unstable person with violent impulses.🤔 🤷