Russian warship, go f**k yourself!

He's not been asleep, first line of the article

There has been no "discussion" yet.

This is a significant development. If anything happens to any of them or there entourage it could be considered an act of war. I think it only time now before some sort of substantial intervention from the West/ NATO if Putin dose not negotiate and find a way to exit.

I would not even be surprised to see these countries act unilaterally and outside NATO

And you think Putin worries about a kamakazie situation.

It’s very important that the UN or equivalent name these people , eg this lady and the two mayors who were kidnapped, and enquire where they are, their well-being , etc. if their names are kept in the public domain then the Russians should be more careful re their fate

BIt strange isnt it you have a fella here spouting on about a dictator running an authoritarian state over in the east while at the same time happy enough that our "dear leaders" here can spout out what suits them about our neutrality status despite no procedure followed to change our constitution.

Further to that....it says unless "their is an invasion"...It doesn't even say on us...

But spot on...it allows the Oireachtas to decide..

There isn't even a case for neutrality in this instance.

There aren't 2 sides....

A country was invaded...1 agressor, not 2..

This is someone being mugged and we turning the other way because we're "neutral"...It's sad.

We could be credited with ringing the police though..

What needs to happen is Britain and the US get involved in an air war over Ukraine.

Me thinks they're just letting Russia flatten Ukraine to let the world repulse at russia. But Russia could perhaps take ukraine or maybe not instead like Syria. In not acting, war continues in Ukraine. Sanctions continue against russia.

Right say Russia does take Ukraine. In my eyes that's ten years of sanctions against russia. Gas is cut off. Gas has to be shipped from US and British firms to europe. Same with oil. Business booms for these.

Whatever of the fertilizer. Hydrogen infused water perhaps..

Point is the US and Britain are too comfortable just watching Russia obliterate Ukraine. The weapons so far are just token gifts imo to be seen to be doing something.

Poland and the baltic states are going batshit crazy with the thoughts of Russia as neighbours again. US, Britain chill man. France doesn't know what to do.

World is phucked. Legitimized murder.

+100

I was just thinking today about Aughanish Alumni or Alcan as it was known years ago is now owned by Rusal I believe, should they pack up and pull out of Limerick now because its not socially acceptable to have them there? What money that plant generates for that area and the national economy is phenomonal, it would be a massive blow to the economy but sure look it isnt that it.

A quarry local to here has all its staff on notice of potential lay offs coming up as they cant get materials to make blocks or readymix at the moment so the bulk of there output cant be produced despite the high demand for building materials.

Local fabrication firm making diet feeders cant get materials into the country to make their products at the moment too, i was talking to a relative working there who said theres an awful lot of standing around going on there which would be very very unusual for that firm.

The company i am with is having huge trouble getting materials at the moment too and its worse its getting since the invasion started. Both copper and stainless pipe and fittings had to be sourced from several suppliers and it still had a huge wait time so we had to get a loan of materials off the main contractor as there was no hope of getting it into the country before the deadlines set on the job.

Look inside youre own farm gate as well, diesel white and green is a ridiculous price, plastic is going to be dearer this year too and wait until the price of feed is raised relative to the shortages caused by the invasion, has youre farmgate price increased relative to input prices?

All well and good putting up the cringey blue and yellow flags on social media, embarrassing the Russian Ambassador on the National Broadcaster then ramming the gates of the Embassy but its painting us in a very bad light to the Russians.

All we should be doing is supplying humanitarian aid and helping the displaced civilians as best we can weve been at that years and were good at that too. Stick to what we know and lets not bite the hand that feeds us.