But the common European only loses
Great, so I'm not the only one who sees this. Man, we can't win in this war of vaccines for the global market, and while the whole world is part of it, the EU leadership (the collective Brussels) seems to be too weak and indecisive to be able to protect us. This epidemic was a serious blow for my Euro-optimism. I still like EU, but am angry as f**k at those useless bureaucrats in Brussels and IMO we need a completely new Commission. Ursula and her gang are useless.
I heard about this on Ukrainian news a while back because your PM said in an interview that he traded Transcarpathian Ukraine for the vaccine (LULZ).
Yeah, that guy really knows how to stomp on a mine. He had to apologize for that one. A journalist asked him literally "what did you have to promise to the Russians (so they would sell you such a large amount of vaccines) ?" It was pretty provocative, basically accusing him of treason, so our PM lashed out with the T.U. remark. It's a low point for a guy who made his political career by standing in front of cameras and accusing the other guys of all the bad stuff back to the first apple.
Now I hear he's being called to resign because the purchase supposedly undermines Slovakia's commitment to the West, among other reasons.
If it were this, I could understand it. They're morons, but at least they're loyal morons. But IMO the origin of the vaccine is largely an excuse. They have to know they can't sell this reason to the people, most common Slovaks like Russia more than they like the US, or NATO for that matter. I think it's because we are very suspicious and react badly to propaganda and hypocrisy. Back in the commie regime we didn't like the USSR and loved America, now we don't like America and while we don't love Russia, it's the lesser evil to many here. So, the politicians opposing the use of Sputnik know they go against the popular opinion here, but they also know that after months criticizing the PM for being a useless and sometimes outright harmful (with his Twitter-fueled egomania), if they now let him start Sputnik vaccination his ratings will shoot up - and since they all fight for the same voter, they're toast. Some of them are even now within the margin of statistical error regarding the 5% threshold for the parliament. So they went as far as paralyzing the government, just so there's nobody who could give a go for using Sputnik. Right in the middle of the 3rd wave...
There are other funny moments, like two coalition parties uniting against our PM, and when one of them actually committed to getting out of the coalition, the other (the ones with 5.2% rating) reversed and started to look for reasons to stay... the circus is epic, and beyond sad by now.