Russia - threadbanned users in OP

The practicality of it as you say is that there are far poorer EU countries doing more and taking in more than us.

Mostly because they'e literally next door to this disaster, and yes it'll hit them even harder.

In your analogy the cold light of the next day you'd still have done the right thing and be working to get your neighbour back on their feet.

I doubt you'd be on your deathbed worrying about the time you helped them out. You could rest easy that you did .

Which is all warm and gooey, but that's mostly what it is. How do you get your neighbours back on their feet if you don't have the room and money's already tight for you? How's that work then?

The cynic in me thinks maybe we should have done an Irish version of what the Brits did; give them all the weapons in the Curragh, but only allow 2000 refugees in with visas and health checks, don't give them full social welfare and medical cards and give a few quid monthly to their hosts. Maybe send Coveney over for a photo op. Zelensky seems only too happy to give London the nod for doing that, even though the same London has been washing Russian dirty money for decades while the same Russian dirty money was bankrolling a load of thier politicians. Ireland gets a "could do better" from the same Zelensky.

Maybe the Russians don't have to do a pincer movement CHBS? If they seem to have the bits in purple and can do the same to the bits in red, that would give putin his pecker extension exercise for the May great patriotic war parade. OK, clearly he wanted and expected more, Kyiv with puppet government over the whole nation, second prize being all things east of the Dnieper, third prize being the bits in red and purple above.

He could spin that BS to his brainwashed subjects as a "victory". If he can hold it he could put any talks on the long finger, as he gives two shíts about the Russian people suffering under sanctions and he's primed them for it for over a decade anyway. Ukraine would then need to go on the attack to win those areas back. They've been truly inspiring in defence, but without NATO I can't see them taking that much land back in attack. It could be a continuation of the dug in Donbass conflict that's raged since 2014 and Ukraine has lost a load of territory to a facist invader.

On the other hand, if this does play out this way, the EU must go into and help rebuild non Russian Ukraine. Get them on the road to EU membership. Never trust Russia again. Never lift the sanctions and I'd increase them as we wean ourselves off their blood soaked gas and oil and dirty money. And I never thought I's say this; close all Russian embassies with EU countries and close all ours in Russia and have a single one in Brussels and one in Moscow that covers all the EU.

Fúcking brilliant! 😂🤣