When Tanja Fajon said that foreign policy would now be “feminist” at the beginning of her term as Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, we could not help but wonder what that meant. Almost two years later, we know exactly what it means. It is Tito’s policy of non-alignment, where the real friends are those from the autocratic axis of evil, while we sometimes put on a “mask of normality” in front of the West so that naive Western liberals can still consider us part of the community. But not even Tito was as strongly inclined towards the axis of evil as Tanja Fajon is. At every turn, current foreign policy is telling us that our home is not Europe, let alone a nuclear Europe, but a group of anti-capitalist (some would say ‘anti-imperialist’) autocracies led by Iran and Russia.
At the World Economic Forum (which, like Fajon, wants to loosen up the Western liberal world), our Foreign Minister did not meet any representatives of Western countries, let alone of the core Europe – no, she clearly had to signal her allegiance to the non-free world, which is why she met Hosseini Amir-Abdollahian, Iran’s Foreign Minister – the representative of a brutal Iranian theocracy that supplies arms to fascist Russia, foments conflicts in the region (the current situation in Gaza is its doing), attacks neighbouring countries with rockets, and kills its own female citizens when they are dressed in what the authorities deem to be the wrong clothes.
On de-escalation with the aggressor
“In a discussion with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Tanja Fajon stressed the importance of peace in the Middle East and the responsibility of all actors involved, including Iran, to calm the situation rather than further escalate the situation in the region.” the Foreign Ministry boasted.
So, Foreign Minister Fajon discussed calming the situation with a representative of the regime that armed and trained the religious extremists of Hamas so that they could then go out and kill Jewish babies, all in order to prevent Israel from establishing normal diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia. So, they want to talk about peace with the actor who caused the disturbance. The one who, at the very time they are shaking hands, is killing children in Pakistan and Syria and training the next generation of Hamas and Houthi terrorists.
Fajon cannot imagine security without Russia
However, this has long been the modus operandi of Tania Fajon. Ever since the war in Ukraine began, she has been bizarrely ambivalent towards the Russian aggressors, calling for talks with Moscow at every opportunity, even as the representatives of Russia carried out ISIS-style terror in the villages around Kyiv. A year ago, she even became the star of the Russian media when she said: “We know that without Russia, there will be no lasting peace and stability on our continent, and it will have to be part of the debate on a new security architecture in Europe.”
Fajon’s love of fascist Russia was quoted by all the main Kremlin media at the time, led by the Russian version of the Slovenian Press Agency – the Russian News Agency TASS. As a representative of a European Union country, she was the first at the time to signal to the Russians that there was no unanimity of opinion within the Union on the aggression against Ukraine.
In the absence of a negative reaction from the European Union, she then further escalated such rhetoric. Last summer, she reiterated that “it is absolutely necessary to find a way to talk and cooperate with Russia, as without dialogue, it is not possible to solve the world’s challenges.” Let us not forget that these are the words of a Foreign Minister of the country that is the new non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council!
Attacking the only democracy in the Middle East
Fajon also said that she would take part in the proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for alleged Israeli violations in the Palestinian territories, which were initiated on the basis of a UN General Assembly resolution of 2022. In doing so, we have joined the ranks of renegade theocracies, autocracies, and quasi-democracies which, in addition to anti-Semitism, share a hatred of capitalism (a system which, thanks to its libertarian principles, is the mortal enemy of authoritarians the world over).
There are even rumours that, at some point, Slovenia might join South Africa in a lawsuit before the aforementioned court, that accuses Israel of genocide against the Palestinians.
To make matters worse, Foreign Minister Fajon is one of the few Western politicians who has accused Israel of breaking international law, which she even said on CNN and was publicly and shamefully rebuked by the Israeli government.
Feminist foreign policy introduces itself
The mask of the so-called feminist politics has fallen away, and underneath, we can find the legacy of Tito, Gaddafi, Arafat, and other despots who fought for decades to sabotage and destroy the Western liberal capitalist way of life from within.
They promised to “bring us closer” to a nuclear Europe and branded – the hugely popular and respected among Western politicians – Janez Janša an international disgrace. And what did we actually get? We got a very similar result as in the case of the “30 days to a specialist” healthcare promise.
We got a Foreign Minister who openly flirts with the main cause of unrest in the Middle East and, between the lines, with the fascist Russian Federation. At the same time, we have a Minister who has joined the lawsuit of an autocratic part of the world against the only true democracy in the Middle East.
The policy of Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Tanja Fajon is no longer a secret, but a very clear attempt to reposition Slovenian foreign policy in the sphere of interest of the Russia-Iran-North Korea-Venezuela-Cuba axis of evil. Whether this is her intimate wish or an attempt to blow the dog whistles heard only by the extremists of the rival extremist party – the Left (Levica), with whom she is fighting for the same (extremist) votes, is a matter of interpretation. In any case, one thing is clear: when this government resigns this year, we will probably need two mandates to wash away the shame that Minister Fajon has brought upon us.
Mitja Iršič
