I thought it was only "unfriendly" countries that had to pay in Roubles. Orban must be disappointed if the implication is that he is not Vlad's bestest friend.
This is the level of truly unfathomable idiocy present in the Russian forces. Of all people Russians and Belarusians, people who have been brought up on the accident and terrrible consequences of Chernobyl. Are they brain damaged by army rations or something? SMH
An inscription by the Russians on the wall in Kyiv (I think Bucha): "We are Russian and we are proud of it". They were able to find someone who could spell......Which is surprising.
The only solution RBB and co. can even begin to conceive for any problem is their very specific brand of Trotskyism imposed on everyone. In their minds, that would solve everything, and nothing short of it solves anything. As with many zealots, it's all or nothing.
Josep Borrell, the head of the EU's foreign policy, compared how much the EU spent on financing Ukraine's defense since the beginning of the war, and how much the member states paid Russia for energy resources. The difference is colossal, because according to the words of a Spanish politician, the country defending itself against the attack received 2.8 percent of what the regime of Vladimir Putin received at the same time.
**** hell. She's one step away from Alex Jones with this stuff. Absolute fanatic, the embarrassment. Do we have to wait until 2024 to get rid of her, anything we can do about this?
Send her to Russia as diplomat and see how she copes with reality
Someone should have a serious look at their financing and who they have been keeping company with along with the 2 eejits in Brussels.
Absolute dirtbags.....
but im sure plenty of people will vote for them in the next election
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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): 🙂
She'd make ISIS uncomfortable with her hatred of the West.
struggling to prevent my blood from flash boiling into steam -
The average Russian conscript was born after Chernobyl and given the Russians perchance for historical revision they may not have been even aware of the danger they were in. I suspect the officers were but I doubt they hunkered down in those contaminated trenches with the grunts.
It demonstrates the sheer contempt that the higher ups in the Russian leadership have for their people. Where as western doctrine is to train the troops to the max and protect them at all costs.
It appears that the Russian doctrine is exactly as it was depicted in the "Enemy at the Gates" - "One man picks up the rifle, the other picks up the ammo. When the man with the rifle falls the other picks up the rifle" with a cocked Maxim gun trained on them from behind in case they retreat.
"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..."
She gives useful idiot a new meaning
I am embarrassed that Clare Daly represents this country in Europe.
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.
If the broader consensus is that Wallace and Daly are dirtbags, then I doubt they'll be getting many votes at the next EP elections. There must have been something that made them an attractive prospect (or at least more attractive than the competition) to send to Brussels in the first place.
I'm hoping that these tawdry episodes end their political careers. They are an embarrassment to our country.
More likely they went on a Kremlin funded jolly and there is "kompromat" from it.
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...
The foreign media now just as bad as Facebook and Instagram I guess as they are "accomplices" in Bucha:-
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
What they actually are
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
If there are any real, passionate and honourable investigative journalists out there, now is the time to focus all your resources on Clare Daly and her cronies.
Make her your special project. Surely editors are in a position to finance and resource a deep dive into their operations and activities. It's almost your duty at this stage.
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.
Oh look he's dead - again:-
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.
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