You're being quite disingenuous there, what sanctions did the US suffer, what investment stopped? What sanctions did Israel suffer? Wasn't Micheal Martin a minister in the FF government that aided and abetted thevUS war machine in its illegal invasion and destruction of Iraq?
“Who in the Lord's name does Putin think gives him the right to declare new so-called countries?”
Not a big fan of Biden, but some decent lines in there
Pretty weak response all around from the west surely this is a green light, all I took from bidens speach is him basically telling Russia the west won't stop you militarily in Ukraine under any circumstance.
FFS! Could you not just stay on topic?
What a joke Jesus Biden sanctions ,
The EU battlegroups should be stood up and deployed to ukraine , Nato should allow it's members to deploy troops to Ukraine to aid in the defense of Ukraine,
Putins going rouge ,he doesn't want dialogue so give he what he doesn't want EU and NATO troops to contain Russian forces
When we have NATO or US troops and Russian troops shooting at each other, that's a world war
Biden not taking any questions
I have addressed the current issue many times. I haven't suggested for a moment that US current and recent crimes exculpate Russia, they don't but it's appropriate to point out the sheer hypocrisy.
The million dead Iraqis are at the hands of the 'coalition' troops led by the US what do you think the US were doing, patting people on the head? Don't be so bloody dishonest.
Coveney wasn't long jumping out of the traps last night with his usual strongly worded condemnation and Martin at the same thing today, do they really think anyone let alone Putin gives a fook what they have to say.
Biden confirming that troops will only be used to defend NATO territory.
I'm terribly sorry that facts are so inconvenient to you!
This is some prime grade bullshit. You could sell it to your farmer friend.
I haven’t seen it given any coverage - understandably, considering the preoccupation with countering Russian misinformation - but does anyone have information about the support in Donbas for the separatists? There are certain parallels with the Irish situation. I’m certain that claims of genocide are bogus, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Ukrainian nationalism was alienating the Russian-speaking population.
He stuttered over a word. Classy move to call someone with a lifelong stutter pathetic. 🙈
Biden is so pathetic - can barely speak the first sentence
The Ukraine is a largely artificial creation much like Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland from it's outset was partitioned from the island of Ireland and is just 101 years old, Ukraine was not partitioned from Russia or comparable in any sense, the Ukraine is 1139 years old.
Russian peacekeeping at its best
Let's go Brandon 🤣
This is your mind on a steady diet of disinformation.
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Biden addressing nation in next few minutes
Putin and his pals have money squirrelled away all around the world. We legally launder Putin money in Ireland.
Russia is used by these people and they aren't trying to make it a better place to live. They'll feel another iron curtain scenario.
they always will have Crimea too remember
I may be pessimistic but I kind of think there's a struggle coming between Western democracies and autocracy (as represented in current crisis by Russia).
Agreed. We really have to figure out how to manage some of the aspects of western liberal democracy before they inadvertently bring the whole project crashing down. A big one to me is free speech and individualism. You can say pretty much what you want and be who you want. Sounds good, but taken to its extreme, you get fertile ground for so much disinformation and also loss of communal values, and this just pits people against one another, leading to a loss of societal cohesion. China's attitude is they're onto a winner by locking down their Internet and punishing those who don't get with the program.
Biggest state in Europe in 11th Century, and even the Russians claim ancestry from Kievan Rus along with Belarus and the Ukrainians themselves. It was also a part of the vast Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as the states of Galicia and Volhinya and eventually under the rule of Russia and Catherine the Great through that now well-recognised invitation to Russia to meddle until it was finally screwed over with the second Polish partition which led to a century and more of Russian/Soviet brutality and the odd state-induced famine.
Yeah proxy wars, but this is 2022, not the 60's. Technology, war, everything has changed. Foreign troops cannot intervene in Ukraine, simple as that, the Russians know this.
EU to impose travel bans on ALL 351 members of Russian Parliament who backed breakaway territories
I wouldnt rule out a military coup in Russia. They must know Putin is not playing with the full deck.
I would not rule out the military generals having quiet little chats in darkened corners.
Europeans are visibly terrified of Putin because
1) He is probably unstable and
2) He has nukes
The chance for peace with both NATO and Russia out of Ukraine is now gone so it's time to load up the napalm and get real tough.
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