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Checking out the details of the #Russia attack on the #Czechia ammunition depot in Vrbětice in 2014, I read with some amusement the then Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s excuses of how “Russian agents were not attacking the Czech Republic, they were attacking the property of a Bulgarian company”, and then further excuses them that “the cargo was supposed to explode on the way, not in the Czech Republic”.

That was truly an awesome excuse! The Russians wanted the explosion to happen on the road in some town or on the highway, but it exploded on the spot - okay, time fuses are complicated, not their fault!

To put it bluntly, if then in 2014 there had been a determined EU and #NATO response to that attack of an absolutely belligerent and aggressive nature (people died) - such as in 2021-2022 i.e. sanctions and a determined expulsion of Russian personnel etc. - then probably the war in 2022 would not have broken out at all.

Instead, a few years later, NATO issued a lame statement about “expressing solidarity with the Czech people” - I wonder why, since according to Babiš it was not even the Czech Republic that was attacked? Or was it, after all?

And it only issued it because Bellingcat revealed the real perpetrators of the attack, which the Czech government had apparently been withholding all this time…. presumably so as “not to escalate the situation”!

#Russia #nato #czechia
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Schmaker
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It gets even better - minister #Hamáček had planned trip to #Russia that was canceled with not really good explanation.

Rumors say, that he was about to trade keeping their secret for #covid vaccine #Sputnik.

#covid #Russia #Sputnik #Hamáček @kravietz 🦇

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Jiří Eischmann
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@schmaker If I recall it correctly, they had to publish the case because it was about to be leaked by the press. And the leak most likely came from someone in the secret services who was horrified that the politicians were willing to use it to bargain.
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m0xEE
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@sesivany @schmaker
> about to trade keeping their secret for #covid vaccine #Sputnik.
OMG indeed! I'm not even trading not having lunch for that shit 🤭
Being Russian, I could have a shot of this for free, but I had chosen wearing an FFP3 3M mask instead — feels more reliable.
#covid #Sputnik @Schmaker @Jiří Eischmann
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Well, if I understood researches at that time correctly, then even smelly diaper was more effective than some batches of Sputnik 😀

Guess it's always a tough time being Russian...

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@schmaker
Well, sadly the efficacy of all COVID vaccines turned out to be a far shot from what they've been telling us — I'm not some anti-vax dude and I don' even think that Sputnik was much worse than the others (maybe only a tiny bit😅), but going such great lengths to get access to a vaccine that hadn't even proven to be effective at the time… I don't know — seems extremely fishy.
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@schmaker
In fact three vaccines have been developed in Russia: one was based on tried but old tech — this one was the most trustworthy, but it was produced in tiny quantities, it was nearly impossible to get vaccinated with it even in Moscow.
The second one had been raising questions since its inception — some experts expressed concerns that it couldn't work even in theory.
At some stage of trials it was proven to be ineffective — lack of antibodies, and was called off.

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@schmaker
So even in Russia they stropped using it.
And the third one, the most popular, produced in huge quantities, to be exported — was Sputnik. It probably wasn't even THAT bad — at least not as bad as its reputation was. As you can probably remember, Russia was carrying out antivax disinformation campaigns in the developed countries — but it backfired quite spectacularly!

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@schmaker
People started translating articles published by RT in English back to Russian and sharing them on Russian social media and over WhatsApp 🤣
The reputation of Sputnik was ruined entirely — even when vaccination was made mandatory, some people were bribing the medical personnel to get the certificate, but not the vaccine🤦

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m0xEE
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@schmaker
I don't know anyone like that personally — my circles don't have too many people who are into conspiracies and antivax, but this was reported in local news outlets that I consider trustworthy.

Again, downplaying such a blatant act of sabotage to get access to vaccines from the country that had… these three. That is completely fucked up IMO🤪

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Moravian Kaleidoscopy Ltd🇺🇦
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good chance he'll be PM again next year, planting us firmly into the Orban-Fico camp.

Also, you wouldn't believe what our then-president said about the annexation of Crimea in 2014. (spoiler, he just kept repeating the kremlin bullshit)

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"if then in 2014 there had been a determined EU and #NATO response" - the problem with this line of thinking is that the real cause was actually unknown until 2021 (thanks to Bellingcat). There was a chance to get a determined response then, but Babiš and Hamáček totally messed up while trying to pretend it's not a big deal. Thankfully and somewhat amusingly, the Russians still got very mad, which then lead to a surprisingly big expulsion of spies from their embassy.
#nato
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And if you would like to get some further amusement, look up some articles about the reaction of Czech president Zeman in 2021 when this went public. First, it took his staff about a week to (problably) wake him up. Then he finally went to on TV and babbled some nonsense about how there are some "alternative theories" and that it's not entirely sure that Russians were involved. It was a disgrace. He was acting as a full-blown Russian asset at that point.
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Propably because he is an Russian asset. He always was and always will be.

Congratz to our co-voters

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shakul
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@schmaker I would expect an actual Russian asset to be less transparent about being one! 🙂
But yeah, in all his behavior right up to 2022-02-24 he was indeed a Russian asset, and a Chinese asset as well. Thankfully, on 2022-02-24 he became totally irrelevant for the remainder of his term.
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@shakul

I don’t think the original cause was totally unknown - this kind of accident on this kind of object should have been followed by a thorough investigation, which should have highlighted the visit by two weird businessmen. Of course, thorough investigation might have been suppressed by then government but they must have been at least suspecting who was behind it.

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you can get more amusement from these clowns. Just look up the Huawei bans in critical infrastructure and their involvement in it.

pagenotfound.cz/clanek/kauza-h…

Kauza Huawei. Čína vydírala Českou republiku – Page Not Found

Kolaborantský prezident, ustrašený premiér a přítel Číny v čele ministerstva vnitra. Page Not Found zjistila zákulisní informace o dokumentu, který pomohl bezpečnostní reputaci České republiky, přesto však stál místo šéfa bezpečnostního úřadu.
pagenotfound.cz

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