Presidential Election.

It’s up there with “Will someone think of the children” - it’s noble but it’s saying nothing- that’s my point - there’s no data on what’s working what’s not- you can be guaranteed that pretty much every sanction is “hurting” ordinary Russian people- but that’s by design - you make a countries citizens “uncomfortable” so that they start asking questions, start being vocal putting pressure on pr1ck Putin - we know that if Putin had all the money in the world, his citizens would still be suffering because he wouldn’t be sharing it out- of course citizens hurt with sanctions - but so too do oligarchs and wealthy Russian company owners and Putins friends - at least they’re alive - many Ukrainians aren’t - if the Russian army had balls they’d have strung up Putin at this stage - so they obviously don’t - sanctions or no sanctions - the ordinary citizens of Russia will still suffer - just like the failure of the potato crop wasn’t the reason for famine in Ireland in the 1800s neither are sanctions the reason Russian citizens are suffering

Did someone mention word salad’.

You or I cannot assess the effects of sanctions.

The point I made was there are sanctions that can still be applied.

But the NATO top dog is too busy playing games.
Russia should have been a complete pariah shunned state from the minute they put an aggressive foot in Ukraine.
They STILL aren’t.

It’s not just me and I don’t judge her purely on appearance.

The President of Ireland role is essentially an empathetic role to the Irish citizens and a PR role to the rest of the world- to date I’ve seen neither empathy nor PR - just rubbish statements about sanctions and an insistence that Ireland will be unified and for us to prepare for that which amounts to aggression in terms of how she said it taking no account of impact on those in the minority in the republic - she can go and sho1te if she thinks she’ll win the election with that claptrap

If Connolly saw that the sanctions were not working I have no reason to disbelieve her and applaud her bravery for saying it.

I am for sanctions that work. Israeli reaction to our intention tells me the OTB will work in some degree.

I don’t know what sanctions are working on Russia and I know the head honcho of NATO is gameplaying with the threat of more.

Anything else?

Isn’t there a NATO threat that covers that?

The combined forces of NATO take action I presume.

Did she ask Ruzzia to de-escalate? How about Putin stopping firing missiles into apartment blocks?

Apparently light a camp fire and sing kumbaya

you’re the one making personal comments against posters no less reversing out of clearly stated positions so you can drop your holier than thou act

Come on - camp fires, no electricity?

I’m out. Ryder Cup war is more interesting to be honest