Zuzana Kepplová (source: SME - Jozef Jakubčo)
The topic of the war in Ukraine remains where it was before the election campaign. The front lines between different camps of opinion were frozen. Arguments devolved into slogans. This will soon change, as we return to the debates we left halfway through.
Polls yielding findings about who supports whom and who does not want to help an attacked neighbour do not replace an honest discussion. That discussion is much more demanding and arduous.
It includes the need to re-evaluate our attitudes – especially those that are traditional or inherited – towards Russia, and to include Ukraine itself in the equation, a habit that was not previously our custom. This exclusion of Ukraine is a paradox, since we are neighbours, but it is so and it has its reasons.
It also includes the admission that our relationship with Russia (and Ukraine) is not just a result of Kremlin propaganda, and cannot be solved by shouting about traitors.
