# Assassination Attempt in Slovakia: Is this Putin? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assassination-attempt-in-slovakia-is-this-putin/1001596 **Category:** The BBQ Pit **Created:** [May 15, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assassination-attempt-in-slovakia-is-this-putin/1001596 "2024-05-15T17:55:57Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train) #### Post date: [May 15, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assassination-attempt-in-slovakia-is-this-putin/1001596/5 "2024-05-15T19:45:20Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > Second, everything about this stinks of a Kremlin power grab. Nope: > [@Russia invades Ukraine -- The regional situation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-the-regional-situation/995349/319): > > Robert Fico is a pro-Putinist, proto-fascist, Viktor Orban ally, and is a major cause of political instability in Slovakia. [Fuck that guy.](https://youtu.be/1_Wzjl3i8Xs?si=hiOR_dRDTJFjThY7) Good riddance to that guy. > [@griffin1977](#): > > It could also be a false flag attack by russia. A “false flag attack” would presage and serve as justification for an invasion. Slovakia, a NATO member nation, is to the east of Ukraine…you know, the country that the Russian Army is currently bogged down in the far southwest region of. There is zero chance of Russia invading Slovakia any time in the foreseeable future. Putin is not the deep strategic planner and schemer that people are often crediting him as. He’s a pretty masterful troll who has managed to convince a large part of the Russian populace that he’ll bring the Greater Russia back into prominence on the global stage and he’s managed to goof with the American electorate, but he’s not laying the groundwork for a years long hidden plans within plans. If he were a teenager, he’d be edgelord who spits on your food when you are not looking. Stranger --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assassination-attempt-in-slovakia-is-this-putin/1001596)._