Are Mick Wallace and Clare Daly Irelands greatest shame?

Quick look over there!!

Do you think the America’s Middle East policies gives justification for Putin and his merry band to bomb, rape, murder torture etc etc women and children in Ukraine???????

If Russia invade the Left call for peace and end to NATO.

If Russia was invaded they would call for solidarity and an international brigade.

If the Red Army starts moving through Ukraine more quickly it'll be quite on the peace calls.

He doesn't. He creates simplistic narratives whereby the same basket of countries are always the villains of every situation.

I protested the Iraq war. People like Wallace are fanatics and Putin apologists who have no objectivity, all they do is echo the same cherry-picked historical excuses, reductionism and victimhood of dictatorships and tyrannical regimes the world over.

No. It's not. People despise him because of the gargantuan blind-spot he has for various odious authoritarian regimes. That's not brave. That's being a hack.

Contrast him instead with someone like Bernie Sanders. He calls out tyranny regardless of what "side" they are on. He's been openly critical of American allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia for their crimes whilst also calling out Russia, Iran Syria and China. Bernie Sanders actually has integrity. He stands for principles.

Mick Wallace hears a story and first thing he asks is "Who did that" so that he can position himself depending on that rather than the facts of the incident. That's not integrity. That's partisanship.

I respect Bernie Sanders. I despise Mick Wallace.

This is total b*ll*x. NATO is already on Russia's borders in the form of the Baltic states, for one very simple reason - they fear for their lives. Poland is already on Russia's border (Kaliningrad). Why isn't Russia invading the Baltics and Poland? The reason is that Putin's ideology regards Ukraine as not a real country, just a part of Russia which has strayed, and whose existence as a successful liberal democracy would prove a lethal example for the Russian people.

What Ukraine, Poland the Baltics the Finns have in common is a desperate need to defend themselves against a big predatory neighbour. The idea that somehow the US is pushing NATO's expansion is absurd: the push comes from those who are in mortal danger.

Hitler used the same excuse, that Germany was being "surrounded". The reality of course was that countries were creating a defensive pact because they directly feared an attack from Hitler's Germany, which was his real agenda, and precisely what occurred.

Putin (and useful idiots like Wallace) use that type of rhetoric to portray Russia as a victim. The reality of course is the opposite.

@antiskeptic: you say: "A Nato move for Ukraine, he said, represented a red line for Russia. This after constant encroachment towards Russia by Nato following the breaking of a US promise to Gorbachov not to move so much as an inch eastwards.

White man still speak with forked tongue.

Russia gave no one reason to fear for their lives in the East. Sure, they swatted Georgia when Nato threatened entry via that channel bit hey, let's remember Cuba, huh?".

Was there a promise to Gorbachev not to expand NATO? No, but there was a promise not to deploy non-German NATO forces in the former GDR - a totally different matter. This and related points can easily be confirmed: for example see: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-promise-not-to-enlarge-gorbachev-says-no/

I remember Cuba allright it was a bit like NATO installing nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Finland, only about 100 miles from Petersburg.

How do you expect the US to react when the USSR installed nuclear-capable ballistic missiles 100 miles from Florida? Just roll over and accept a huge increase in threat levels and vulnerability? As I said above, the analogy might be with Finland allowing IRBMs within 100 miles of Leningrad. How would you expect the USSR to react?

This is exactly how Daly and Wallace think. Distilling countries down into "personalities" that are good or bad. Rishi Sunak, who's been UK PM for 18 minutes, is a hypocrite because Britain used to colonise nations. Biden can't criticise Russia because two decades prior someone from another party took a bad foreign policy decision. Germany can't stand against invasion because "Germany" invaded half of Europe.

It's the equivalent of someone who "hates" a football team and supports anyone who plays against it. It's that level of tribal stupidity.

Russia signed the NATO Russia Founding Act which allows sovereign European nations to decide their own security arrangements.

Russia also signed the Budapest Agreement with Ukraine as a sovereign nation.

Therefore Russia has recognised the right therefore of Poland Ukraine etc to join NATO.

So if you want to talk about broken promises - those signed treaties they trump and dwarf that.

But that was probably hypocritical faux concern about promises.

What Russia has done in Ukraine is imperial war mongering. It is a war of conquest and land grab. Textbook undeniable imperial war mongering.

If they are your friends... then you are on the side of warmongers and empire.

Anyone who is in favour of Russia is morally and intellectually bankrupt. Blinded by hatred of the US into siding with a country threatening nuclear war on Europe.

There is many similar articles which shows what your saying is lies.

Precedence...

Russia had invaded countries of Europe including Ukraine how far back into history...

And Russia via the USSR occupied how many of them even more recently than Cuba.

So that means any country Russia has ever invaded or harmed or occupied has the perpetual right to do likewise.

I think we can quite easily see your understanding of law to be fundamentally wrong. Slavery was once viewed as natural and right. So by your argument it must ever be thus.

What a ridiculous argument, you contradict your own faux concerns in the same post.

A justification for 'Perma War' if ever there was one.

Who invaded Russia???

What gives Russia the right to invade another country?

Big fan of the virtuous raping and torture?