Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has formally declared that his nation will not be a money cow or arms seller for Ukraine’s limitless warfare.
Taking to X on Saturday, Fico laid out a scathing rebuke of the West’s obsession with funneling cash and weapons right into a battle he says goes nowhere quick.
“Slovakia is not going to assist Ukraine both financially or militarily to allow it to proceed the warfare,” he mentioned in a press release, including that whereas different nations can waste their sources in the event that they please, Slovakia’s completed taking part in alongside.
This announcement makes Slovakia one of many first European nations to publicly break from the EU’s dogmatic pro-Ukraine stance.
Whereas globalist leaders proceed to pump billions into the warfare, Fico’s authorities is asking for an instantaneous ceasefire—one thing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and plenty of EU leaders stubbornly reject.
Fico additionally slammed the West’s so-called “peace via power” technique, calling it an phantasm designed to perpetuate the battle quite than resolve it.
“Slovakia has reservations concerning the unrealistic technique of “peace via power,” which is barely meant to function a justification for persevering with the warfare in Ukraine. Ukraine won’t ever be sturdy sufficient to barter from a place of army energy,” he added.
Slightly than blindly following the EU’s war-first method, Slovakia is advocating for rapid peace talks and a halt to the move of European taxpayers’ cash into what Fico sees as an unwinnable warfare.
Maybe some of the putting facets of Fico’s assertion is his demand for the EU to revive the transit of Russian gasoline via Ukraine to Slovakia and the remainder of Western Europe.
In an ironic twist, Ukraine—whereas begging for Western support—continues to purchase Russian gasoline, successfully funding Moscow’s warfare machine whereas concurrently worsening the power disaster in Europe.
Extra from Fico’s assertion:
“For the conclusions of the EU summit (Thursday, March 6, 2025), Slovakia proposes, amongst different issues, the need of an instantaneous ceasefire (whatever the second a closing peace settlement is reached), which President Zelensky and numerous EU member states reject.
Slovakia calls for that the conclusions explicitly embrace a requirement to reopen the transit of gasoline via Ukraine to Slovakia and Western Europe. The scenario is absurd: gasoline from the east to the west shouldn’t be flowing, but Ukraine is worsening the scenario in Europe by taking European gasoline. That is Russian gasoline, for which it pays, thereby funding Russia’s army wants. It’s not possible to make sure Europe’s competitiveness if the provision of Russian gasoline via Ukraine shouldn’t be restored.
The help that the EU and Slovakia present to Ukraine in numerous varieties can’t be a one-way ticket.
If the summit doesn’t respect that there are different opinions apart from merely persevering with the warfare, the European Council could not be capable of agree on conclusions relating to Ukraine on Thursday.
Slovakia respects the necessity to enhance Europe’s protection capabilities.”
REGARDING YESTERDAY’S TRUMP – ZELENSKY MEETING pic.twitter.com/T9C4aHdXDh
— Robert Fico (@RobertFicoSVK) March 1, 2025
