Honestly, I don't know... all the predictions I've made about how this war would unfold have been incorrect.
But at this point I think Russia is capable of anything - their barbarism in Ukraine is evident enough that the Kremlin has moved beyond any kind of morality and decency. I watch a lot of the propaganda coming out of Russian TV, and while it can't be used as a kind of thermometer for the way the Kremlin actually thinks in private, there's something increasingly crazy about it, and coupled with the sheer mismangement of the Russian campaign, to me it feels like a kind of fatalism has set in in the Kremlin. I got burned here the last time I mentioned nuclear weapons - posters were saying I was cowering in fear to the Overlords in Russia, but instead I was thinking of that sound advice about approaching a wounded animal - they often bite in their moment of suffering. But I think a weapon of mass destruction deployed over Europe could well be one final move in the Russian playbook, and if Russia was at the receiving end of one, would the Chinese simply watch on with disinterest ? Again I don't know...
Or Putin pulls the nuclear trigger?
This is what the concern about escalation all comes back to at the end of the day.
There are also rumors the Kadyrovs are raping the mobilized. Saw a vid recently of two Chechens holding down a mobilized Russian and doing the job on him.
Several explosions were reported at port of Kherson
better get used to this kherson!
My local FG TD is not on the Russian list. I think he should complain about being refused what is a badge of honour.😁
Well SF and the mad socialists arent in government! Surprised not to see Eamo on the list, and what has Ivana Bacik done to get there? Did she ask Putin for a favour to get her back in the news here?🤣
How do you see this happening, the spiraling out of control and involving other Country's? Which other Country's? If NATO got involved next Monday. how long would Russian forces in Ukraine last? Unless you think China would get involved? Or Putin pulls the nuclear trigger?
Ah yes the auld "far leftie" come back 🙄
Happy ? How can I be happy about cowardly Russian rockets destroying hospitals and schools. How can I be happy about young children going to bed tonight in freezing cold temperatures. Jesus....
No more than the Skibbereen Eagle of old I detect a distinct bias in this list against Mayo specifically. 2 of our 4 TD's and one of our Senators on the list.
I suppose it's good that Liam Lawlor is no longer alive, otherwise this could have had devastating impact on his, ahem, "business interests"!
So you're happy to see and accept that ordinary Ukrainian civilians will be ongoing collateral damage, because Europe cannot get it's act together to close and defend Ukrainian airspace. In the past, many times states have stood back in similar situations and then later pretended they didn't know what was happening and wrung their hands. That excuse is worthless in the modern world.
No shinners, or greens or lefty mad socialist crazy fools on the list. Or Mick & Clare. Colour me shocked.
Pressure from who I wonder? Ukraine I'm assuming...
And 'admit' is surely the wrong word there. Seems to imply a Russian missile is the true story...
That's Mick and Clare impersonating Garda. Arrest them.
I live near the Taoiseach's home and pass it quite regularly. There hadn't been a garda presence (usually a car parked discreetly near the house) in a good few months now, but on Wednesday, I noticed the garda car was back there again. Perhaps his security detail felt it was wise after the sanctioning. After all, you never know if such a thing might embolden some nutjob out there to approach his home...
Sanctioning embassy staff in your own country is a bit of an own goal - you need these people as a liason between you and country X. If theyve personally misbehaved you can dismiss them and get a replacement, but sanctioning them is pointless.
Russia sanctioning irish TDs is just performative theatre. As you say, its pointless, these people seldom if ever go to Russia, its just so that Russia can look like hard men back in their own country. "You stop selling computer chips to mother russia? How do you like it if Michael Martin and Timmy Dooley can no longer come to Moskva!"
I'm surprised its gotten any airtime to be honest, it doesnt mean much
I fail to understand why the Gov is making such a big issue over this barring of 32 , mainly TDs’. They very seldom go to Russia anyway and certainly not now. Main reason that TD’s ministers went to Ru in the past was on trade missions. I cannot see Ireland going to Ru on a trade mission in the foreseeable future.
why was the bombing of over 10 areas in Ukr not ‘discussed’ with Filavov and many other issues in relation to the war - especially the non military targets hit, .And trying to put the whole country into darkness and into a freezing mode over the winter
he could have also used the opportunity to review the Ru embassy staff re their relevance in the embassy.
And finally ,I assume all the Irish embassy staff in Russia are very supportive of the Irish government support for Ukr , so why did Ru not have them all on that list
It will be interesting to see the list, but I will not be shocked if I see Eamon De Valera included.
And all of them all over the news and objected to daily by millions in the west for the last 40 years. "Not a peep" is demonstrability utter rubbish.
Between January 3rd 2003 and February 15th 2003, 36 million people took part in 300 anti war protests. Yet there was "not a peep". I repeat, your assertion is a deliberate misstatement of the facts.
I believe this is it. It won't open for me in Chrome for some reason, but works in Edge. Not sure if that's a deliberate act by MSN/Microsoft, or a local issue on my computer.
Polish authorities warned Thursday that they have received "strong pressure" to admit that the projectile that fell Tuesday in the east of the country came from Russia and not Ukraine.
The Polish deputy foreign minister, Arkadiusz Mularczyk, said in an interview with Radio 24 that "there has been great pressure" and stressed that, if it were Russian, "this would have set in motion new dynamics in the country and around the world".
Russian army shelled Semenivka community
I think the full list was eventually confirmed later yesterday (although all the names on the list weren't released):
Over the course of the day Mr Martin at one point questioned whether the list really existed but in a later statement the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed it had been given the names of the 52 citizens subject to the travel ban.
Palestine destroyed yearly by Israel and supported by Western countries, Yemen destroyed, Iraq destroyed, Libya destroyed, Afghanistan destroyed by Western countries.
I hate to be a pedant, but MSN is a search engine for news not a News agency, it is basically Google.
I am interested in reading the article you read so do you have a link?
As much as people here want NATO to get directly involved (either for sake of righteousness, or for the specacle of it), I can understand why the Polish strike, if it has been discovered to be Russian-fired might not be considered a crossing of the line. The war now, as catastrophic as it has become, is moving along predictable lines. With the help of its backers, Ukraine will run the Russians back over their border, and in time will become Europe's Eastern defence wall, while Russia's domestic problems will only intensify - by all accounts, this era of Russian history is coming to a close. But for NATO to become directly involved, I think, would cause the war to spiral out of control to such a degree that the world as we have known it since WWII may no longer be recognizable...
Actually I could just imagine the miniony Wormtail Filatov eagerly compiling the list in Orwell road in a bid to curry favour with his masters back in Moscow and lashing it off in the diplomatic pouch and then being puzzled as to why he got no acknowledgement or reply. Meanwhile the lower level foreign affairs staff in Moscow are looking at the communique, surprised that they have an ambassador in an outpost called Ireland (Surely our presence there is only for the purpose of eavesdropping on the US tech companies based there) and wondering who are these insignificant names that he has forwarded on to them. No point in escalating this up the chain of command. Into the filing cabinet with it....
MSN news says the deputy foreign minister.
Not a peep out of anyone.
That is absolute utter Rubbish, you have clearly had your head buried somewhere for 60 years since the Vietnam protests.
There does not appear to be a list. The Russians named 6 and said there were 52. They might be struggling with the spelling given their well known level of incompetence, or they might just be too lazy to make a list.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/taoiseach-not-sure-theres-a-list-of-52-irish-officials-banned-by-russia-1393882.html
I'm no fan of Russia, I wish someone would take Putin out the yard and pug him down like a dog, but this line
"Shame on the west/world allowing civilian distruction and devastation by a terrorist state."
I'm sorry but western countries have been doing this for decades now and there was hardly a peep out of anyone.
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