Presidential Election.

In the US where you have almost 300m people, they got a choice between Trump and Harris.

The hate spewed by social media as well as traditional media would stop many decent people going forward, hence you get a fairly uninspiring trio.

Very poor candidates, I'd say the voter turnout will be very poor indeed. None of these guys deserve to be President!! Gavin the best for me but will not vote for any of the 3

Ukraine have been the ones asking for ceasefire and negotiation - to the point that they even agreed a ceasefire plan with the USA when the USA were talking about acting as brokers in the deal. USA's envoy went to Russia with this and it was crickets from them. The big problem with Putin is he looks at this war with a totalistic view. He wants, if not the whole country back under Russian control, then at the very least he wants the 'jewels', i.e. Kyiv, Odessa, Kherson etc. Cities he would look at as intrinsic parts of Ruski Mir.

And in fairness to Putin… if I was looking at it from his perspective, expending a million men on what Russia currently holds and settling for that would amount to a loss, no matter how he tries to spin it, so I could see why he would have no real interest in peace.

The view among prominent left wing politicians in Ireland about removing support for Ukraine as it perpetuates the war I would disagree with if it doesn't come with a strong plan on how to end the war without Ukraine being overran and an even greater suffering of its people occurs as Russia puts the country under a tyrannical occupation. Having said that, that doesn't necessarily disqualify all their other views. That view of the Ukraine war doesn't necessarily invalidate or render suspect the idea that certain key social services should be run by the state rather than subcontracted to private companies who run at a profit and have an incentive to provide a poor standard of service so that their margins are increased. That's just common sense. So, even if Catherine Connolly's views on the Ukraine war don't necessarily align with mine, I do like what she has to say on these domestic issues. And, really, her views on the Ukraine war have little to no bearing on what actually happens there, anyway…

Gavin performing better than expected I think. HH doing okay. I missed CCs opening statement

Connolly giving a somewhat thoughtful answer on the flags. Gavin and Humphries have been very poor so far.

Are these three all this country can find to become President?

I wonder how many will spoil their votes?

I could walk down the cul-de-sac and find a couple candidates if this is the "best" there is