Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

I’ll finish this here. My original point was that I don’t believe we should be providing money to Ukraine. There are many questions over where the money is going.

Ireland is neutral.

The other posts have been questions directed at me that was never part of my original post .
there is a reason that Ukraine has been denied countless times to join NATO from

Humanitarian, LGBTQ issues etc

Cén fáth nach bhfuil tú ag labhairt Gaeilge má tá an méid sin imní agat faoin teanga?

Azov are a Ukrainian brigade who were formed as a result of the proxy invasion into Eastern Ukraine by Russia in 2014. Some of their members had some far right views and tattoos - so Russia immediately latched onto that to paint them all as "Nazis" to ferment a false view that all Ukrainians are "Nazis". Azov cleaned up that image and had foreign members.

At the same time Russia was conducting it's proxy war to invade Eastern Ukraine they perpetuated the myths that Ukrainians were "committing genocide" and other crude propaganda.

Whether it was Hitler or Putin today - they still have to validate their invasions. If Putin were e.g. invading Ireland tomorrow he'd be pumping out propaganda about us all being terrorists, about us being corrupt, that we were about to join NATO - anything with a tiny kernel of truth to spin to people in order to rationalise invading.

You'd be amazed at how certain people lap it up.

Have you asked yourself how this information makes it's way to you and not the facts?

Every army anywhere ever has people like that. Their existence in no way invalidates Ukraine’s right to defend its liberty.

Why give Ukraine €125m aren't the French and American governments giving them money hand over fist already.

And another one, with the same theme.

Trump has notoriously cut aid to Ukraine and extracting a heavy price for badly needed arms (mineral deal, etc)

France is supporting Ukraine like most other European countries - not sure why you single them out, countries like Estonia, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, etc are giving more per GDP than France.

Why not give Ukraine 125m? We can easily afford it, we have grown wealthy by being given staggering handouts from Europe for decades. And we're not being bombed daily.

Cyprus! … oh wait….

Some amount of Bots about today.

Not just on this platform!

Crazy to see the effort being put in to discredit this visit.

I don’t want to be alarmist. But Putin started the Ukraine war by gently introducing the topic of war with Ukraine as an act of defence. He then builds up his aggressive talk. Unfortunately, there are other stakeholders who would tacitly (or maybe not so tacitly) support Putin’s machinations to destabilise Europe

Fire works now on Drivetime Radio RTE 1 between presenter and Boyd Barrett on whether Ukraine has a right to self defence. He says he condemns the invasion of Ukraine and Russia should get out but that there is no military solution. Presenter asks him if he believes that invaded countries should just surrender or do passive resistance. RBB accuses presenter of trying to push him into the NATO agenda. Presenter asks didnt the foundation of this state have a military dimension. RBB replies that James Connolly supported neutrality in WW1

Apparently, they have a right to self defence as long as they don't use violence, unless they are Palestinians.

The tankie politicians of this country are a disgrace.

Jesus. You'd know something was up today with quite a few new concerned posters. Won't someone think our neutrality and the poor Russians! Tough work for a meat grinder or at least a bag of onions.