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I've read the comments she had made in the Dail. If you have any others for review, do share.

She's not in my constituency as a TD. She is standing now as a national candidate so she has 'hoved' herself into the spotlight.

Do you contact many politicians with questions like this?
How did you get on?

The same cop out answer. She's calling on Ukraine to cease fire. That's her telling Ukraine what to do.

Either she's involving herself or she is not.

The question was posed to her in the context of assistance from Ireland to Ukraine and why it was important.

If she's calling for a ceasefire in Ukraine, implicitly that is her calling out to the participants, Ukraine & Russia what they should do.
But according to you, It isn't up to her to come up with 'what Ukraine should do'.

Goal posts moved much?

Where did Catherine Connolly state that Ukraine should surrender? Do you have any quote, accredited source or reportage saying this? If not then I hope an apology is forthcoming for stating falsehoods.

@odyssey06 Catherine Connolly has stated she is against the Russian invasion and has called for a ceasefire and negotiations.

Catherine Connolly has stated that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and is in favour of a ceasefire and negotiations.

She wishes to see an end to both conflicts. No more falsehoods about her calling for a Ukrainian surrender unless you have an accredited source for this. It's your prerogative to dislike her, but not to spread lies to justify that aversion.

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She wishes to see an end to the conflict. Gosh, what a novel position.
As if nobody looking at the conflict thought of that before!

You know, maybe the situation is a bit more complex than that and the reason there hasn't been a ceasefire and negotiations is that Russia has made it clear it seeks to hold territory taken in the illegal invasion and Ukraine rightly objects to that.
And even when Ukraine makes an offer, it is met with more war crimes and indiscriminate mass attacks on civilian targets.
So what does she expect Ukraine to do?

So calling for a ceasefire without acknowledging that, as if the onus is on Ukraine and Russia equally - is calling for Ukraine to surrender to (illegal) Russian demands.

She is also on record as critical of NATO's role, as if Ukraine without outside assistance could have maintained its sovereignty in the face of a revanchist Russia. We see the fate of Belarus as an example had Ukraine not resisted Russian domination. She is critical of EU plans to boost military capacity, to protect its own vulnerable members and supply military assistance to Ukraine in resisting an illegal invasion. She offers no alternative just hand wringing about a military industrial complex…
So the consequence of her statements, implicitly, offers no other option to the Latvias, Ukraines of this world than surrender to Russian re-domination.

You said she called for a Ukrainian surrender. Furnish us with the source please.

It wasn't.

You have had to alter what she says to get to that still dubious assessment.

Calling for a 'ceasefire IN Ukraine' is not the same as a calling 'for Ukraine to ceasefire'.

You are spinning to vilify and that is shameful.

Do you know what a 'ceasefire IN Ukraine' entails?

There are two sides 'firing' IN Ukraine.

Therefore a 'cease' - 'fire' would be BOTH sides ceasing fire.

Nobody, only you on your ceaseless attempts to vilify has suggested only 'one' side 'ceases'.

I remember being told on a Ukraine thread that sanctions would bring Russia to it's knees and the war would be over in a year, that was just after the second invasion.

So if the 'only way' is sheer force of arms why the back and forth on a ceasefire and negotiations?

By the way, some of us have been paying attention a while longer than 2020 and remember 2014.

and is never going to work

That remains to be seen.
My father, a Fermanagh man sadly died believing that there would 'never' be peace in NI.
Thankfully he was wrong.