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I have read it is hungary holding it up that everyone else are ready to kick them out

Yup they will likely fire them into civilian occupied cities which is quite simply a war crime to use this weapon on civilians.

You don't need " ties to Ukraine " to want to help their resistance.!

Good.

They want to create money in a corrupt dictatorship and then get to spend it in the free west like they had made it here fairly. Get them out. Freeze or force them to sell their assets in the west. Don't let them have a western lifestyle is the main piont. It is not Ukrainian nationalism people are driving. It is freedom v dictatorship.

Under putin russia and particularly its wealthy should be completely cut of from the goodies of the west. What good is their wealth when they can only spend it in **** hole countries.

Have Germany sent them to Ukraine?! Or just approved their shipment?

Merkel was one of the few world leaders able to speak to Putin in his own language and get the message accross to him. Obama eventually refused to speak to him (stated in his autobiography that Putin only ever lied to him), leaving Merkel and Macron to keep him in check. When Trump came into power the lady had a lot to do as Trump would have walked away from todays problems.

Why have the Germans been so slow? 3-4 reasons .....

• approx. €29 billion in exports every year into the Russian economy
• German economy earns further billions in gas transit fees, gas grid connection points to every boardering country
• Germanys / mainland Europes dependancies on gas from Europe ... Gazprom deliver approx. two thirds of Europes gas requirement

Add to that, post WW2 laws in Germany means parliment has to approve weapons exports, politicians have to be very careful and tick all the boxes before making a move. Later this evening you will read Germany are now delivering weapons directly from their own military stock to the Ukraine and not only allowing third parties to deliver German bought weapons ;)

Current Chancellor Scholz has the headache which he has been dealing with within his own party (SPD) .... former German Chancellor Schröder is a member of Gazproms Supervisory board (close friend of Putin) and it is believed he is to be announced Chairman of that board. Yesterday Schröder sent out a Tweet calling for the war to end, however, he has not resigned from his position unlike many other Germans over the last few days. That tweet was more or less the signal that the German government were ready to move ....

By the sounds of it the Swift removal will be limited to specific banks and entities.

I wonder what happened the guy who came up with that plan..

Sorry but it doesn't follow that *anything* that weakens any Russian person is in Ireland's interest. Or that refusing to do that is cowardly.

Since when do we seize assets of citizens of foreign countries we aren't at war with? We're debating stealing money from individual Russian businessemen. That goes too far and I don't like it, I think it's squalid.

These russian Oligarchs along with Putin have been pillaging russia for decades. All their their riches are stolen from the russian people.

Russian forces getting heavier artillary and tanks in to position around Kiev. Question is will they go for full on assault tonight or have they more buildup to do?

They already have soldiers within a couple of kms of the govt quarter.

Like all criminals most of the dirty work is done at night.