mozz OP , 3 months ago

WTF, you are 100% right

I posted the story viewing it in my mind as "the bad guy won" just as communicating the news, but looking at it now again, the whole story is full of weird propaganda framing which I didn't even notice the first time.

Ukraine-sceptic

Close ally

pro-Western opposition

ahead of liberal, pro-western opposition candidate

vowed “to ensure that Slovakia remains on the side of peace and not on the side of war”

Korčok conceded the defeat and congratulated the winner

You have to read quite a ways into the article to start to see factual elements which are totally at odds with that presentation early on.

announced she would not run for re-election last June after receiving death threats

The new government immediately halted any arms deliveries to Ukraine

plans to amend the penal code and take control of the public media

Kinda seems like that stuff should be in the lede instead of the "The close ally won against the pro-Western opposition" framing