Should Robert Fico die after all, the fallout before the elections in the EU and on American side of the pond later that year could be somewhere between assassinations of Aldo Moro and JFK, regional specifics permitting, as he, being skeptical of further alienation between the EU, China and Russia, is a friend of Orban and hence stands one handshake away from Trump and Putin.

Moreover, automobile industry and some other hi-tech facilities tend to migrate from Germany and Scandinavia toward Slovakia recently, thus turning Slovakia into the main electric cars production powerhouse of the region, because Slovakia maintains access to significantly cheaper energy sources. Even hiking and trekking shoes could be found that hail from Slovakia, and for the footwear it’s as rare exception from manufacturing lines flocking to Asia as relic cosmic string or a unicorn.

It ofc doesn’t mean that Fico is a Kremlin or Chinese agent in the sense that Dem party-affiliated outlets employed concerning Cambridge Analytica affair, there’s a more subtle structural coloration, that hearkens back to the (unexpectedly and deceptively peaceful) dissolution of Czechoslovakia, as well as to its borders from the Interbellum epoch: exactly in Slovakian part those reached into what is now Ukraine, and today still Slovakian language, of all Central European ones, possesses the closest similarity to Ukrainian, Rusynic, and Russian.