Can they not both be wrong? NATO expansion is wrong in the modern day when nato are supposed to be made up of countries who are modern in outlook.
There is no justification however for invading another country.
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Countries looking to join NATO generally wanted to join for this very reason. They feared Russian aggression. Ukraine have wanted to join for ages but IIRC it was the Germans in particular who were against it. Probably because they wanted to keep Putin (and his gas supplies) sweet.
Are Ukrainians not free to make their own decision to join NATO?
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Steve Bannon. Pure Putinist fairytales, as you would expect from a genuine fascist and a genuine hater of liberal democracy and the west.
Christ
Crazy hot blondes be crazy
Not exactly Mastermind material.
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As I said earlier the carrot of tapping dollars in the US over St Patrick’s week focussed their minds
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Simple plan. Act radical to get the disaffected on board, then transition into power, get the snouts in the trough and complete the Fianna Fail-ication.
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Edward Snowden.
There’s a chap called David Horgan on #brendan now and he sounds like a thinly veiled RT propagandist.
He’s a big shot in the oil industry if I remember rightly from his previous performances on this programme over the years.
Unbelieveable this guy is being invited on the national broadcaster three days after Russia invaded the rest of Ukraine.
Ukraine has warned Irish oil company Petrel Resources about its plan to develop an energy project with Russian monopoly Gazprom in Crimea, Ukrainian territory currently subject to international sanctions since annexation by the Kremlin in 2014.
Ukraine’s embassy in Ireland warned that Petrel’s proposal to set up a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Crimea with Gazprom may undermine international efforts to contain Russian aggression in Ukraine.
“The united endeavours may be seriously undermined if some actors try to circumvent sanctions and to take advantage of the situation to their own benefit and at the expense of others,” the embassy said in a statement.
David Horgan, a director at Petrel, spoke in late April with Gazprom at the Yalta International Economic Forum about the possibility of developing an LNG facility in Crimea or along the Russian Black Sea coast.
Mr Horgan said the mooted project may not be subjected to the onerous Crimean sanctions as the facility could technically be in the Kerch strait – the stretch of water separating Crimea from Russia.
Kerch was named in September 2014 by Gazprom executives as one of the most probable locations for LNG plant construction at a conference entitled “Integration of Crimea into infrastructure of Russia’s oil product market”.
European Union companies and citizens have been banned from buying Crimean companies or property, or supplying and investing in energy and infrastructure projects there since Russian military forces seized control of the Black Sea peninsula in March 2014.
Peader?
Steve Bannon met Russian fascist Rasputin Alexander Dugin as far back as 2008.
Weeks after Putin had invaded Crimea.
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“The Grayzone” is a particularly grubby little US operation filled with shameless tankies like this guy.
It’s an operation which shills for Russia, Bashar al-Assad and denies the Uyghur genocide by the Chinese.
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton are other names associated with it to look out for.
I think that’s reasonable given our conflict status and our membership of the EU.
Let’s talk about in the Dáil. It’s a pretty mild ask.
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An absolutely disgraceful statement by Catherine Connolly. There is a massive reckoning coming here for the left and those who have chosen to stand on the wrong side of history and who refuse to place the blame for this war squarely on the shoulders of who is responsible - Putin and his fascist mafia regime - must be cast aside.
I’m fucking seething here.