I think one of the big issues for me with what I call the hard left, is their sticking to idealogy, an idealogy that treats all things American as imperialist. Everything then stems from that, hence yesterday we see the likes of Boyd Barrett spending a minute or so condemning Putin but then the next five minutes laying into NATO. They just can't help themselves.
No idea tbh. But good to see them being so welcoming
Has he seen Michael Martin?
On steroids maybe...they handed out 20k plus guns to citizens and are being armed by other countries...
Russia and Putin are going to seriously regret this imo. It will also possibly push more countries to join NATO.
They've already been kicked in the head by a horse.
I'm not going to pretend to have some massive insight but just about any Eastern European (non-Russian) people I know have never let go of their suspicion of Russia. I've seen a couple cringe when I asked if they spoke Russian, they did and they didn't seem happy about it. Was good mates with a Ukrainian lad in school and he could speak both but was very clear about being Ukrainian.
I don't think "hate" is too strong a word in many cases. There's a good (and really obvious) reason so many Eastern European countries ran, they **** sprinted to do everything they could to join NATO. But some gobshite in Ireland who cares about refugees and tells everyone all the time still has to blame America.
AFP reports from Germany that Russian composer Valery Gergiev has been told to speak out against Putins invasion of Ukraine or risk losing his job as conductor of the Munich Philharmonic.
Completely inappropriate to compel private citizens to make political statements and potentially endanger relatives back home.
I'd give any peacemaker-type statements my support no matter where they come from while diplomacy is still possible. Once hostilities start and there is a clear wrong party, the entire dynamic changes. At least it does for me. That is the point at which I feel contempt for some on the left, who I think, do not understand that pacifism (if that is what they are championing) does not preclude self-defense, on the national or personal level. There's a time and a place for everything.
He's free to leave Germany
Just like the Jews right?
Give me a break....lol...
He is a Putin supporter...or did you miss that part?
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
This famous poem sums up a large element of the Irish population, sadly and embarrassingly
I wonder how putins family and the families of his generals feel when they see that putins name is likened to Adolf Hitler! Some inheritance to leave his grandchildren!
Ohh look a social justice warrior ,
Worried about a bloody conductor while thousands of Ukrainans facing death in their beds tonight.
Great job you
Give him a break. He’s a non political private citizen. Why should he be threatened with losing his job? He hasn’t done anything wrong.
That was the moment I changed my assessment of the situation and I think many others did. Them words were chilling and will stay with me for life.
It was a direct threat to obliterate whoever challenges him. Think Hiroshima and Nagasaki but worse again.
I'm not afraid to admit, I may have overestimated his intelligence aswell. Time will tell but early signs are it's a miscalculation.
I haven't been following the thread today but the armchair general in me is asking:
-Why the Ukrainians didn't try and prep Hostomel airfield for destruction if they knew were going to lose it?
-Are the Ukrainians in possession of drones that could attack stationary equipment?
I work with a number of polish lads. They absolutely detest the Russians. But there is also a little bit of fear brewing regarding future moves by Putin. I hope those fears are unfounded but I'd put nothing past Putin and his cronies at this stage......
He has voiced support for the slaughter of Ukraine's people
At that point his boss is well justified to fire him
Christ thats an embarrassing post
Funny at the time
He has ties to Putin and has spoken out in favour of him....seems pretty political to me...so f#ck him. Other Russians are being expelled/visa revoked in other countries.
Tell me 3 things Ireland has done to aid Ukraine ?
Agreed, this will make NI look like a paintball event on a stag weekend. Attacks in Ukraine and on Russia itself. Armed to the teeth, 600,000km2 in which to retreat, hide and plan. Massive miscalculation on Putins part. Firstly the army is no where near as good as we were led to believe given the gains so far. The war itself will take a heavy toll. The insurgency will bring an economically crippled Russia to its knees. Putins ambition won't let him stop in Ukraine and when he attacks the baltics the western powers will decimate his army.
He then has two options, go nuclear or wait to be taken out by his own army. Hopefully sometime in the next few months we see pictures of him hanging off a bridge in Moscow. It would be the only fitting end for an evil pos.
Hopefully he ends it hiding bedraggled down a hole with a mars bar like Saddam!
Except he's politically supported Putin and is considered a friend of his. In this scenario, ya his connections should totally end up with him lobbed out the door. It's not as if Putin wasn't dodgy prior to the invasion...
I think that we will wake up one day to the news that someone has put a bullet in his head.
If he loves putins Russia so much let the prick go live there. Sick to the teeth of these Putin loving **** living it up in the west
https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.classicfm.com/artists/valery-gergiev/russian-conductor-putin-carnegie-hall/
His parents were killed by the Nazis. How ironic.
Where is the Russian navy and their submarines?
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