May 23—Yesterday’s attacks upon the ongoing investigation by Slovakian officials into the May 15 attempted assassination of Prime Minister Robert Fico were supposed to accomplish what the assassination failed to do—freeze any sane, national impulses in Europe standing in opposition to a future of permanent geopolitical wars against Russia and China. It’s not that Slovakia and Hungary are that powerful, but the EU has not crushed them—and the longer they stand, the greater the danger of a long overdue “slave revolt” by Europe’s larger countries. In Slovakia’s case, last year’s election of Fico and the April 6 presidential election of his colleague Peter Pellegrini indicate that populations can choose a more independent path.