He and Daly are hiding something. They are way too sympathetic to the Russian and Chinese regimes and are not just naïve peace activists - I'd love to know what is really going on there.
Sure he doesn't support any government 🤣🤣🤣.
The government should have the ability to withdraw meps and replace them
Mick Wallace and Clare Daly are an irrelevance in the conversation around this conflict. Few, if any, are listening to them. In respect to this conflict, they represent few, if any, of their constituents. The only use their views on this conflict have is to people who wish to use this pair as an example of 'the left' in order to discredit that whole side of the political spectrum.
Sorry, what? They are both high profile MEPs who have repeatedly opposed any moves to censure or oppose Putin. They have sought every opportunity to publicise their views and have shown no shame about doing so. You may not like their opinions or what they represent but claiming they are an ‘irrelevance’ is clearly incorrect
It's a tricky one. The old-school lefties always had a soft spot for Russia. Even that popular trade unionist over in the UK, Mick Lynch I think was his name, has come out with the usual "NATO expansion" stuff. Basically, they see Western Imperialism as a bad thing but when Russia engages in Imperialism, it must be the fault of the West. It's as if only Westerners have agency while those easterners just react reflexively to our shenanigans. People who believe this kind of nonsense don't have to be on the take. All it takes is a few junkets sponsored by Russia and and their ears are more than willing to receive whatever their handlers are whispering to them about evil NATO.
True. However these votes make clear we do send an embarassingly high % of this kind of absolute clown/spoiler politician to the European Parliament, almost equal to what UK used to return with pig ignorant UKIP and Brexit Party MEPs spending all their time flinging shít and trying to tear everything down. Yeah they are ultimately irrelevent & fortunately well outnumbered, but it's still bad.
2 "nos" and 1 "abstention" for that vote from this small country is too high. I just wish people would take election to it a bit more seriously.
Tankies the pair of them. We all know some. Just this morning I got sent a YouTube video that has "irrefutable eveidence" that the Americans blew up the pipelines.
Rolled my eyes to the back of my head.
The Irish Times did an exposé about them a while back and found they were being quoted all the time in the Chinese media and giving interviews to them. They must know they are liked and admired in Russia and China. There's definitely something a bit dodgy going on - they are not 'neutral' or in the middle but are much more closely aligned with Russia and China than with the West.
Russian warplanes target with air raids the Kabbana hills in the northern countryside of Lattakia, coinciding with an intense flight of Russian reconnaissance aircraft over the region
I have to disagree. Most of my circles of friends are Gaeilgeorí who would mostly lean to the left and by a fair bit at that. Among them are quite a few who would agree with Claire Daly and retweet her nonsense. That's despite a lot of them being shinners who don't see the parallels between our history with the Brits and Ukraine's with Russia. People do listen to Claire Daly and it's pretty important for voices on the left to counter her nonsense.
I said they're an irrelevance in the conversation around this conflict, which is correct. It's correct, because, as we've seen, their opinion has had no effect on the EU's approach to the conflict. If anything's given the EU pause and worked to stymie its response, it's been things like German energy concerns, not the small-minded witterings of Wallace, Daly and their little gang of contrarians in the EUP. And if people stopped sharing their asinine takes on the conflict around various Internet spaces in a 'you won't believe what these eejits have said now', they'd be a hell of a lot more irrelevant, still.
It's just a case with any conflict, you're going to get a few crackpots out on the edges of democratic systems, exercising their democratic right to spout complete waffle.
Was it (a) 40+ minutes long and did it (b) fail to do what was said it would?
Yes to both = standard CT tactic.
It doesnt take much when you look at Daly and wallace,where i think its the opposite
I don't know if I agree with you ...
Oil( and gas) isnt going away you know.. it may not be the only choice, but it's still going to be there , and nothing funds inovation in renewables better than high oil price .. (it also tends to bring in a recession which crashes oil demand,and green tech investment)
Oil is getting dearer to extract and it's taking more and more energy to get it out of the ground, which is fine if you're selling an increasingly scarce resource,even better if you're expensively selling a resource that you can get cheaply..
All this is propaganda. I have no doubt that what Zelenskyy says is agreed to by NATO.
Seems there is fierce battle for Bakhmut
https://twitter.com/WarMonitor3/status/1578377602112290820?s=20&t=H81JPEryjHLQRgCvs7xPBg
Ukraine getting the new m30a1 rocket for himars ....
Top level shíthousery
https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/7-october-ukrainian-parliament-recognised-kuril-islandsnorthern
Looks like it's already been pictured in Ukraine about a week ago. I guess it was just listed as rockets for himars in previous weapon supply updates. As someone on Twitter calls it.... God's shotgun!
Be dangerous to use within an occupied town, but on advancing or retreating Russian's, it could cause massive devastation.
To be fair, the Russian claim on the Kuril islands is a hell of a lot stronger than their current bid to expand their lands, if only because it's backed by an internationally-recognised agreement, though after their current shenanigans, I think it would be correct if they lost a bit more land than just that which they're trying to take.
Basically a professionaly made version of a suicide bomb/vest laden with thousands of tungsten ball bearings.
Well, they only have to wait another six months to get rid of her.
When Daly and Wallace go campaigning for EU re-election they’ll be portraying themselves as working for their local area, local electorate won’t be aware of their Putin support
Bakhmut getting hammered.
Pray the line can hold for Ukraine.
Î was afraid that something like that would happen. With all the Ukrainian advances in Kherson and up north recently, it makes sense that the Russians would counterattack in another section of the front to try to force Ukraine to commit reserves in that section and by extension take some pressure of the Kherson and Kharkiv/Luhansk fronts. The big question is whether this is a last gasp, akin to the Battle of the Bulge, or the first phase of a larger counterattack?
They don’t have the resources for a large counter attack so most likely a distraction.
Is Bakhmut the new Severdonetsk? What's the background? The Russians seem to be very determined to take it. Is this the Wagner Group going all out to try and get Putin a win that he can use at home to deflect from Kharkiv and Kherson regions? Someone in an earlier post was saying that Prighozin and Kadyrov would be more likely to try and conserve their strengths in anticipation of future internal Russian conflict. That doesn't seem to be the case at Bakhmut though.
The Ukrainians also seem to be staunchly defending it. Are they trying to bleed the Russians and are prepared to withdraw when opportune like Severodonetsk or do they want to hang on to Bakhmut as much as the Russians want to take it?
russia deployed Shahed-136 drones at Luninets airfield in Belarus, - "Zakhid" Territorial Defense forces
Belarus is a hive of activity these days, any chance they could mobilise against the collective west?
Depends on what resources the Russians have, I suppose....
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