> God forbid for national politicians to think about their națion first!

Being pro-russia is being anti-Slovakian though. You get zero upside for teaming with terrorist state and all the downsides.

ceding sovereignty and to many degrees cultures to another nation to kinda like be a vassal state is quite literally not thinking about your nation first lmao. even less so when the other nation funds your political ascension, like.. that's the opposite of thinking about your nation first. that's flat out doing it for the other nation man.