Wallace and Daly - Please Read Mod Warning on OP

Not a hope. There was a reason they jumped ship from the Dail. And it wasn't just for an extended permanent dirty weekend abroad to Brussels. Their time was up

Yeah, nobody who I've seen in this forum is putting forward the idea that the USA is a bastion of morality and ethics, so you don't need to stand the idea, unless it's one you simply made up to torture yourself with.

However, imperfect as the USA may be, I'd still prefer to be living under its hegemony as things stand than that of China or Russia. Sorry.

Russia, no doubt, loves the idea that the West will be doing plenty of hand wringing and infighting during this crisis in Ukraine as it will divide opinion and stymie action, so the West talking about its own hypocrisy at this time does absolutely no good to help Ukraine. If and when the crisis end, we can resume normal programming of talking about what a lot of self-serving, hypocritical pr*cks we are in the West, but until then I think more pressing matters should be attended to.

That photo was apparently coordinated just before the invasion and was used on Russian media to highlight the necessity for the special operation into Donbas to save the children being killed by the drug addicted Nazis

Unfortunately they were not his debts buts his company and technically he is not liable for them due to limited liability. Revenue can go to the courts to make a case to make him liable but the outcome would be a big loss for them. Him paying x back he made was just to a token gesture and given the amount he was repaying he would be long dead before it would have been repaid

Not quite true. Mick had himself declared bankrupt in order to get out of paying debts that were on his own back. If they were company debts, there would have been no need to declare bankruptcy.

Just thinking about the whole spheres of influence idea, and using it to argue that US/NATO/EU should not provide military support to Ukraine and US/UK/EU etc. should cease sanctions on Russia (because Ukraine and its people are naturally in Russia's/Putin's "zone", so just accept what will be will be etc.)...

Thinking self interestedly, it is a very harsh and cruel looking world for a small, defenceless, neutral country where the conquest, theft and genocide of your weaker neighbours becomes accepted as politics by other means for big powers to assert primacy in their sphere of control. Such actions will be normalised by Putin succeeding in Ukraine, and so become more likely in future.

If Daly/Wallace and their various defenders posting on here think that's the right way to go and leads to a better world, maybe they should also strongly consider Ireland formally aligning with Evil NATO post Putin's victory? At least we'd under some firmer protection of one of these spheres, and less exposed to unpredictible laws of the jungle. Or we could join up with another "sphere" for our protection I suppose, if they prefer the Xi/Putin offerings!

Those guys really do know how to put manners on pesky journalists and other ne'er do wells all right. Sorry I feel like my brain is about to melt now and I should give it a rest...

They might not be working for Putin but they are doing a better job for him than his most loyal lickspittle.

The best way to get elected in such a large and diverse European constituency is to keep your message as wishy washy as possible.