Can the Deep State's message on the attempted assassination of Slovakia's PM Fico be any clearer?

The paper of record tells us what to think in its first 3 words

The only question is whether the gunman was a willing agent (doubtful given the consequences to himself, unless he had a fatal condition and had been paid off) or whether, like Sirhan Sirhan, he was mind-controlled. Or whether he was a deep state agent who was also mind-controlled.