Russia - threadbanned users in OP

The idiocy explanation is certainly plausible, although given the "mushroom" approach to informing the rank at file in that army, I wouldn't surprised if (a) they didn't know the extent of the exclusion zone (i.e. pretty bloody big) and/or (b) they didn't know they were near Chernobyl in the first place.

Unless the reactor sarcophagus was in plain view and even then...maybe...in which case we're back to stupidity.

The size of the Chernobyl exclusion zone (shape not correct): 🙂

struggling to prevent my blood from flash boiling into steam -

"Hey lads, check out that power station of there. Pretty impressive! Lucky they didn't send us to that Chernobyl place mamushka keeps talking about, eh? Anyway, this trench isn't going to dig itself..."

Is she on the Kremlin payroll? I seriously suspect she (and a couple of her chums) must have received 'favours' from the Putin regime at some point.

I'm hoping that these tawdry episodes end their political careers. They are an embarrassment to our country.

Boardsie Donald Trump (and presumably he would know😝) reported 'rumours' that the Russians have 'kompromat' on Clare and the bould Mick. To prevent nausea I chose to believe he fabricated said rumours. But if they were true they could explain a lot...

These TDS and their entire party make me sick to my stomach. They have NO CREDIBILITY what so ever. They are wastes of time. And they are too thick to realize this. Complete and total farce

CHRIST ITS HARD TO THINK STRAIGHT

These people consider themselves

• Socialists (Makes my blood boil)
• In touch with ordinary working class people (gimme a break)
• And Anti War

What they actually are

• GLORIFIED ACTIVISTS, without even a molecule of intelligence - They blame NATO for a conflict that NATO IS AVOIDING LIKE THE PLAGUE FOR FEAR OF NUCLEAR WAR
• POPULISTS - These people are cult-ish populists who will follow a perverse 'NATO BAD/ALL ELSE GOOD' policy - they will be UP IN ARMS the next time Israel and Palestine go at it - yet they refuse to applaud a man who is leading his people against a MILITARY INVASION IN THE 21st CENTURY
• IDEOLOGUES - They are entrenched in their own warped version of socialism - which bares NO RESEMBLANCE TO REAL CREDIBLE LEFT WING POLITICS

To my Fellow Lefties

Please - for the love of sanity

Do not vote for these people again. There are plenty of credible Left Wing alternatives incl Labor, the SocDems, and even SF. I get that you want an end to FFG duopoly - i do too - but DONT WASTE YOUR VOTES ON THESE PEOPLE - they are activists - they sound wonderful giving speeches - but they ACCOMPLISH NOTHING - and in a moment of historical importance, they chose to 'protest' as opposed to applaud -

Never forget - and punish them by refusing them a preference

For the record, before I say the following, I support the idea of sanctions on Israel because of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and generally appalling, murderous treatment of the Palestinian people. I also gave PBP a number three vote at the 2020 General Election (Gino Kenny in Dublin Mid-West). Never again. I also do not support Hamas, I think they are a cancer.

In relation to the PBP clowns and their utter hypocrisy re rejecting sanctions on Russia yet support for them on Israel, it is clear anti-Semitism.

You cannot hold such a double standard and not expect people to notice. They are an embarrassment both to left wing politics and to the cause of the Palestinian people, who unfortunately have plenty of people within to embarrass the whole cause.

I would also note that what Mattie McGrath said to Micheál Martin - "you are dancing with the globalists" - is an example of the most vile anti-Semitism.

"Globalists", especially when said in that tone and judged against McGrath's long record of dog whistle racism and far right Trump style "populism", is clear code for "Jewish world conspiracy".

These fuckers need to be booted out of the Dáil.

Our government in waiting, SF, have been very quiet during all this. The only thing I remember from them was that they tidied up their servers to remove all the pro-Putin stuff under the pretense that it was slowing things down.

I think that it's time that the Irish people take mep elections a lot more seriously in the future, we are giving these clowns a platform to represent us in Europe and the world and yet they express the exact opposite views of the general consensus of the country they represent, it's an absolute failure of democracy that we have to change.

Sadly probably the view of all too many ordinary Russians:-

Ukraine isn't a country, it's just a piece of land, Poland next...

FFS, the ordinary citizens of Russian are rightly brainwashed.

I know, it's Daily Mail, yet...

Didn't they refuse to condemn the Crimea actions a few years ago? Alas, come the election, as long as they promise free everything, their many supporters, including the wonderful, idealistic and politicised youth of the country, will go out and vote for them

Orbán told a news conference that earlier on Wednesday he had invited Putin for peace talks in Hungary, to be held with the Ukrainian and French presidents as well as the German chancellor. He said that Putin’s response was “positive” but that the Russian president said this would have conditions. He's also all for blocking sanctions on Russian gas and oil and called it a red line for Hungary.