Sky News has been called out for saying the attempted assassination of Slovakia’s “pro-Russian” PM was “not surprising”.
British broadcaster Sky News has drawn criticism for suggesting that Wednesday’s attempted assassination of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was to be expected, given the politician’s controversial views and “pro-Russian” stance.
“It’s worth thinking about who this individual is,” a Sky News anchor said of Fico shortly after he was critically wounded while greeting supporters in the small town of Handlova. Sky News military analyst Michael Clarke replied, “That would make sense. Slovakia is a very conflicted place at the moment.”
Clarke, who also works as a security adviser to UK lawmakers, went on to note that Fico had pushed for ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict, rather than continuing to send weapons to Kiev. “He’s become very pro-Russian over the years,” the analyst said. “One wonders why and how, but maybe that’s his conviction.”
In fact, Clarke claimed, Fico and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban “dig their toes in against aid to Ukraine or against any sort of sympathy with Kiev.” He added, “That’s very divisive in Slovakia. It’s divisive within the EU, so it’s not surprising that this sort of event might take place because it’s a very unhappy country at the moment, Slovakia.”
An EU country’s leader has been shot, and of course it has to be about Putin
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The suspected shooter – identified in media reports as 71-year-old Slovakian man Juraj Cintula – is a fierce critic of Fico’s Ukraine policies, Bratislava’s interior minister said on Thursday. Fico won a third term as PM last year, after campaigning on a promise to push for forging a peace deal in Ukraine and halting arms shipments.
Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald blasted Sky News for its reporting on the attempted assassination. “Not only do they come close to justifying it because he opposes aid to Ukraine, but they also casually imply that he’s being paid by the Kremlin,” he said. “This casual accusation is so prevalent in the West, and toxic.”
Norwegian author and political scientist Glenn Diesen agreed, saying, “Sky News gets as close as they can to legitimize” the attack. “The media becomes more vile every day in their mission to fuel the war enthusiasm and smear anyone calling for a return to diplomacy and negotiations.”
Sky News was not alone in its unsympathetic tone regarding the shooting victim, UK podcast host Brendan O’Neill wrote on Thursday in The Spectator. “Across the broadcast media, there was a palpable coldness in the coverage of the Fico shooting,” he said. “The BBC has been at pains to remind us that Fico is ‘divisive.’ Aren’t all politicians, by their nature, divisive, in that they divide public opinion? Even the ‘nice,’ anti-populist politicos no doubt preferred by BBC and Sky types get some people’s backs up.”
Unsurprisingly, Sky News has literally justified the assassination attempt on Slovakian PM Robert Fico. Despicable ghouls.
Reposting it, because the previous one has “mysteriously disappeared”. pic.twitter.com/JXPGJzgnTF
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Is there any link between Juraj Cintula and Zionist Jews?
Guardian , BBC or any UK media are all spewing their filthy hatred of putine, russia and all countries/individuals friendly to them.
They prefer to promote the abhorent ” woke” culture….
Michael Clarke sounds like an effing English twat. Spewing his globalist propaganda like a big douche bag. Big prat. What a pillock.
Country’s full of them and they import them here too. Shame because there’s some nice people there.
I was reading some sh*t by Josie Pagani, man she talks a load of crap, holds the same view, doesn’t want the war to end until they break Russia into tiny bits. Full of hatred towards Russia. Greedy globalist empire.
It is going to be a difficult wake up for ” Great ” Britain.”
No colonies any more to ransom while the Bank of England is bankrupt.Not to mention the Scotts who wants their independance or Northern Ireland reunification.
They are going to have to learn humility
Another inside job. The MIC needs to be sustained and feed all any cost.