• illi@lemm.eeEnglish
      91·
      2 months ago

      There are other people in his government who can take over. Easy to rally behind a martyr.

      Also he will greatly benefit if he lives, as per the OP edit he is stabilized. Edit: no idea what the source on that is, did notfind this info anywhere

      • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        Depends. Some figures like MLK Jr, sure. Others like Hitler or Trump can’t be replaced because the entire movement is a personality cult based on them. I’m not familiar with Slovakian politics, so I can’t say what would uave happened of he had been killed.

        • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          He is a promiment politician (this is his fourth term as Prime Minister) and very popular in the pro-Russian crowd (he is PM for a reason), but I’d not say he has such cult following.

          That might change now though.

      • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        i’ve seen report that he has internal bleeding in abdomen that couldn’t be stopped for 3h, so kinda, sorta this starts looking bleak. we’ll see, for now slovak media is embargoed on this issue

        • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Not looking good, no. Even from the little info we have it is quite clear this was not false flag operation (if it was this would be next level conspiracy shit, Occam’s razor needs to be applied). It was always a stretch.

          Why would anyone who is against Fico want to do this is beyond me. This act will makenthe situation much worse, some people in the governemnt and ruling parties are not exactly sane and some of them have bloody eyes. Whatever shit they did until now will be tame compared to what is ahead.