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Man (70s) dies in Galway crash

The incident happened at around 3.35pm today.

A MAN IN his 70s has died following a road crash in Galway this afternoon. 

The incident happened on the N18 at Kiltartan at around 3.35pm..

The driver and sole occupant of one of the vehicles, a man in his 70s, was pronounced dead at the scene. His body was taken to University Hospital Galway where a post-mortem examination will be conducted.

The driver of the other vehicle involved, a man in his 30s, was taken to University Hospital Galway for treatment of his injuries which are believed to be non-life threatening.

A garda spokesman said: “The road is currently closed and will be closed overnight. The services of Forensic Collision Investigators have been requested. Local diversions are in place.

“Gardaí are appealing for any witnesses to this collision to contact them. Any road users who may have camera footage and were travelling in the area at the time are asked to make this footage available to Gardaí.”

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    Mute Róisín
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    Apr 14th 2022, 7:30 AM

    Thank you to Billy Kelleher and Timmy Dooley for making sure that these atrocities are documented for the Irish people and for committing to ensuring support for Ukraine to rebuild. We all have a moral obligation to cut Russia off from the rest of Europe both financially and politically. Russia will not change. We will all suffer if we cut off gas but nowhere close to the suffering of Ukraine.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 9:27 AM

    @Róisín: The most sensible comment I’ve read on here for a while. Europe won’t be able to trust Russia for another 100 years and it could have been so different.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 8:12 AM

    The reconstruction of Ukraine will cost €500 – €700 billion, not million. And that’s based only on damage up to now so this figure will continue rising for as long as the war continues. Frozen assets of the Russian central bank are in the region of €300 billion which can be used. I heard a comment from Germany last week saying that Russia could not expect sanctions relief until they called a ceasefire and withdrew Russian forces. That’s madness. There should be no sanctions relief until Russia agrees to pay full reconstruction cost, plus compensation to the injured and the families of those killed.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 9:44 AM

    @Tommy Roche: yes I agree.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 10:52 AM

    @Tommy Roche: We should freeze all the EU assets of all 6000 people the Magnitsky charity identified and sell all of it. Send half the profit straight to Ukraine and keep the other half for refugee relief in the EU

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    Apr 14th 2022, 8:49 AM

    Where are the pro Russians /Bots this morning?? Utterly disgustng what Russia is doing.. indefensible acts backed up with endless lying.. stomach turning.. we know never to trust a single word that comes oit of Russia…

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    Mute David A. Murray
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    Apr 14th 2022, 9:10 AM

    @John Bathe: Two of them are busy in the European Parliament, running ‘interference’ on the situation in Ukraine. It’s hard work, but well paid. A Bulgarian MEP had an understandable reaction to one of their latest rhetorical endeavors, by burying his head in his hands and finishing with a dismissive hand gesture. It really shouldn’t have to be said, but if someone is genuinely interested in protecting human rights and civilians, then that’s an across the board, non-partisan commitment to doing so.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 9:15 AM

    @John Bathe: Let me give it a go:
    ‘Russia was provoked by Nato…how would you think the US would react if Mexico joined the Warsaw pact?’
    ‘Nobody is doing anything about western imperialism in Yemen’
    ‘Israel is the real problem.’
    ‘Ukraine is ethnically Russian. Don’t believe the MSM that tell you otherwise. Do your own research.’

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    Apr 14th 2022, 9:48 AM

    @Joe Vlogs: it’s 17% Russian population actually.
    Yemen is horrendous also but the have their own wealthy oil Neigbours down that neck of the world which should be helping.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 10:09 AM

    @Joe Vlogs: you forgot to add in that President zelensky has €1.50, (or is it €1.5 million or €1.5 billion) in his bank account and therefore that’s all the justification you need for the Russian invasion.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 12:10 PM

    @Joe Vlogs: does nobody’ remember Cuba missile crisis they nearly starved them people

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    Apr 14th 2022, 1:16 PM

    @Michael Nolan: Why only go back 60 years Michael …. ffs.

    And people hope for a United Ireland … not in a 1000 years the way people hold onto the past.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 3:53 PM

    @Pablo: can’t argue with st❤️pid…it’s a given ….. distance does not kill the crime .. try reading books with more the 30 pages

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    Apr 14th 2022, 10:26 AM

    Yemen is infinitely worse but media don’t report to same level for some reason.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 10:41 AM

    @John Moloney: The media do report on Yemen, but it’s not a hot consumer topic, so people don’t consume enough of that reported news to make it (in part) profitable and (in part) justifiable to prioritise the Yemen situation regularly. You also deliberately ignore the simple fact that the longer any situation goes on the less daily interest the general public usually take in it. News is a consumer driven sector. If enough people want to learn about Yemen and keep up to date with it, then news companies will escalate coverage.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 10:45 AM

    @John Moloney:

    Yemen does not border the EU.

    It’s also a nonsense false dichotomy, you can be against both. Funny how I don’t see you bringing up Yemen on any other articles, are you upset that the media is rightfully covering an important story this time?

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    Apr 14th 2022, 10:46 AM

    @John Moloney: I’ll give you an example. A couple of years ago, the former editor of one of New York’s major magazines said that the ‘media’ had to take responsibility for giving Donald Trump so much coverage over decades from the 1980′s on. If the public didn’t have the interest in reading about Trump regularly, then the magazine would have switched focus to other people and news. The public ultimately determines what news COMPANIES cover and how often.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 11:42 AM

    @John Moloney: The war in Yemen is a proxy war in a wider conflict/sphere of influence battle between Saudi Arabia and its allies (UAE, Sudan, etc.) supporting the regime, and Iran with its support for the Houthis. You say Yemen is infinitely worse, but under which metric? It is silly to try to try to rank conflicts by which is worse or better – civilians being killed is always a tragedy, and there is plenty of that going on in both Ukraine and Yemen. Perhaps a reason why Ukraine is garnering more attention is because a) it is in Europe, and in terms of number of combatants, worldwide impact in terms of fuel, food and inflation, is far more globally consequential, and b) it had a democratically elected western looking government, and was invaded for that very reason. This is effectively an attack on the west, which Ireland is a part of (although apparently some rather we weren’t). Similarly, there is clearly only one aggressor in this conflict (Russia), while Ukraine is merely defending itself. In Yemen, there are multiple actors, and while the actions of SA and its allies are vile, it is hard to warm up to their Houthi opponents, who fight under a flag that literally says ‘crse the Jws’ (need to drop some letters for the filter). At the end of the day, both conflicts are leading to untold civilian suffering and destruction. However, the Ukrainian government is in no way comparable to the Houthi rebels.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 12:07 PM

    @David Bourke: OK it doesn’t border Europe so these lives don’t matter. The people that despise nationalism and tell us it is dangerous when applied to our own small island dont see the huge danger of applying it at a continent level which will lead to ww3 eventually.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 12:21 PM

    @John Moloney: So….’nationalism’ is what the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the unwillingness of Ukrainians to accept this is about?

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    Apr 14th 2022, 1:22 PM

    @Joe Vlogs: “Under which metric” ?… Well the most obvious is the hundreds of thousands of people in Yemen, including tens of thousands of children, that have been killed by munitions supplied by the US, UK etc… and by the famine that has been caused as a result.
    Yes there have also been children killed in Ukraine, and of course all of their lives matter too, but the number is a million miles away from that of Yemen. (most recent Ukraine count that I’ve seen is 147 as of yesterday)
    Also, it would be naïve to think that we are reading more about the Ukraine war because it is more “popular” with western readers. The media is very much the guiding hand that dictates how the general populous thinks about any situation. The fact that Russian media has been censored in the west is very telling. We’re not allowed to read what the “opposition” is saying and to decide for ourselves that it is or is not propaganda. And you might say “well Russian has banned western media too!”… and yes, that is what we are lead to believe, but the BBC (and others) still have a presence in Russia and still broadcast daily.
    The western media immediately decided that what happened in Bucha was by the hand of Russian soldiers. Not a millisecond of though was given to the possibility that it ‘might’ NOT have been Russia. I’m not saying that it wasn’t Russia but there is a mountain of evidence that should at least be considered before any fingers are pointed. There “should” be an independent investigation, and it should be made public that we can expect a report on whatever date. (And by evidence I’m don’t mean “dead bodies moving”). In the meantime the media should at least try to “appear” to be impartial. !

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    Apr 14th 2022, 1:30 PM

    @John Moloney: Can I ask, does Putin pay you well? Every comment I have seen you make this morning is trying to draw attention away from the atrocities being committed by the Russians in the Ukraine.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 1:37 PM

    @Joe_X:

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    Apr 14th 2022, 1:39 PM

    @Joe Vlogs: Well said. Yemen is a civil war that has escalated. It’s also ironic that those who cry about Yemen are the first to say the Western World should stay out of the Middle East. Ukraine is completely different.

    And I’d bet my left nut that most that spout about Yemen wouldn’t have a bloody clue what is actually going on there. – it’s just another drum to beat that anti Western sentiment (while they live here of coarse – wouldn’t want to actually live in the regimes they actually support)

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    Apr 14th 2022, 1:46 PM

    @Gary Dunne: Why are you striving so hard to hear what both sides say ….. does the fact the one country invaded another and has proceeded to bomb it to bits, kill civilian, displace millions and throw in some murder and r ape not convince you as to who might be in the wrong here ???

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    Apr 14th 2022, 3:08 PM

    @Pablo: Really ?? I’m striving to hear what both sides have to say because I believe that that’s the correct thing to do !!!
    Are you saying that you’re happy to just take at face value whatever you’re told by a potentially biased media and/or government without any kind of questioning or validation ?
    And, even if you’re happy with that, do I also have to be ? … or is it ok for me to require some kind of evidence before making a decision ?

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    Apr 14th 2022, 4:00 PM

    @Gary Dunne: your right spot on all this 1 sided shixt one would think we live in a dictator ship ..shout them down browbeat them into submission till we get
    The last word in …wasting ur time here Gary.. we live in the age of bubble gum journalism .no nutritional value what so ever just keep chewing and spitting it out

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    Apr 14th 2022, 4:04 PM

    @Pablo: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged the impact of Russia’s invasion was globally significant but said ongoing conflicts in his home country of Ethiopia, as well as Yemen, Afghanistan and Syria, had only garnered a fraction of the focus that has been placed on Ukraine.

    He made the comments during a virtual press briefing from Geneva.

    “I don’t know if the world really gives equal attention to black and white lives,” he said. “I said it last week: the whole attention to Ukraine is very important, of course, because it impacts the whole world but [not] even a fraction of it is being given to Tigray, Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria and others.”

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    Apr 14th 2022, 5:00 PM

    @John Moloney: the knock on effects of this war are considerably more dangerous. Ukraine is more important to the world as it produces so much grain that poorer countries rely on. This war will cause civil unrest all around the world. Russia also have nuclear weapons.

    Yemen is a humanitarian crisis which has been made so much worse by this Ukrainian war. They like many countries rely on Ukraine.

    You wonder why the press and public are more focused on this war – because it effects everyone of us. It is terrible to say but Yemen doesn’t. Also the Yemen war is less black and white. Bad guys on both sides.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 10:44 AM

    Ireland has almost 2000 AT4 anti-tank weapons, and 500 Javelin missiles. They are lying around unused. They have a limited shelf life. The ones near expiration should be sent to Ukraine.

    Neutrality in this crisis is inhumane.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 10:55 AM

    @David Bourke: Totally agree

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    Apr 14th 2022, 11:41 AM

    @David Bourke: we do? Honestly surprised we don’t have just a handful of old tech. All we heard for years was the military was terribly under funded.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 5:03 PM

    @Derek:

    500 Javelin missiles is very cheap compared to a few main battle tanks. By western standards, Ireland’s military IS underfunded. However, this war has shown that comparably cheap anti-tank weapons can be very effective in the right hands.

    1 Javelin = $80,000
    1 T-72 Main Battle Tank = $500,000
    1 T-80 Main Battle Tank = $3,000,000

    1 Javelin missile can destroy 1 T-80. They’ve shown to be an incredibly cost-effective weapon.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 9:10 AM

    Russian propaganda was dehumanising west societies for more than a decade. What can you expect from young soldiers who have been exposed to this their entire lives, and whose command turns a blind eye, and sometimes encourages to commit war crimes. To them, the west civilisation is worth destroying, r.bbed and r.ped because they believe that west is living well because they steal from Russians, and as such are responsible for their poverty. I am in no way defending them, I am merely saying that reasoning with 100+ million brainwashed people would be difficult.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 9:23 AM

    @Clay Pigeon: clay I spent time in Russia. Worst place I ever worked as they hated me as I was from the west. Didn’t matter that I wasn’t American and that I was Irish. They hate everything about us. Ingrained. Those on here that make excuses for Putin and say America is as bad are clueless. They have no idea. And people thinking removing Putin will solve everything are equally naive. Ukraine’s only crime was that it’s people looked to the West.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 10:46 AM

    @John Comerford: Well said

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    Apr 14th 2022, 12:14 PM

    @John Comerford: Well they had no issue with coca cola, Pepsi and levis jeans. They can fairly down a few mc chicken nuggets too.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 3:02 PM

    @JG: if you tasted Russian food you would understand why!!

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    Apr 14th 2022, 12:13 PM

    Wish we could send Claire D and Mick W there to to see the reality of the war they are defending

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    Apr 14th 2022, 11:10 AM

    While not excusing Russia’s invasion, if I’m correct; Russia’s original protest was Ukraine wishing to join the EU and ultimately NATO. Russia protested it would be surrounded by NATO countries. Imagine the tables were turned?

    My argument is that Ukraine should not be part of the EU or NATO. Nor should it be part of the Russian federation. Ideally it should be the Istanbul of old, when Constantinople was the bridge between the west and the east. A neutral zone if you will. But no, other people and nations had different ideas. In essence, I would suggest no one side is 100% black or white, as is no one individual, less they are a god.

    I’m suggesting that just possibly this war need not have occured, but I’m open to debate. Go easy on the abuse.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 11:23 AM

    @Keth Warsaw: its a good idea but unfortunately once the tanks started rolling its gone. in the future regardless of how the conflict ends i dont think Ukraine will have many pro Russian politicians voted in democratically.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 11:27 AM

    @Keth Warsaw: or maybe Ukraine can decide what they would like to do and not be bullied into something. Especially by a neighbour who has already taken over parts of the country and who’s leader believes that it is not a real country.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 11:56 AM

    @Keth Warsaw: There is an issue of agency here. Ukraine wanted to join NATO. That was Ukraine’s prerogative (it was also the prerogative of the rest of NATO to accept them, which they didn’t). And I think the current invasion and previous invasions very much justifies that desire. The fact that Russia could just decide to annex part of Ukraine (Crimea) went to show that Russia did not respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Would it have done so had Ukraine been part of NATO? Almost certainly not. Russia effectively made the argument for Ukraine to join NATO, by showing that it was happy to use its far superior military might to simply seize parts of Ukraine, and that Ukraine was not in a position militarily to stop this from happening. Ukraine being able to rely on allies being mandated to support them in such a situation would have almost certainly stopped Russia from pursuing such a course of action. But Russia knew it was fighting a far weaker opponent. I assume there was a similar belief held by Russia prior to the latest invasion, and in many ways, Ukraine are still fighting on their own in a direct sense, but at least this time they are getting a lot of indirect support though military hardware, intelligence and finance.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 11:57 AM

    @Rian Lynch: It’s not about pro Russia or pro EU, it’s about pro Ukraine. I’m with you 100% re tanks. I’m talking about before the tanks. We have this media narritive now that this is tbe only way it was going to go. I say there was another option .. lost to history.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 11:59 AM

    @Tomás Barrett: I agree. Ideally all should have a right to their own future. But any decision can have dire ramifications. That’s the thing about freedom of choice…be careful what you wish for.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 12:00 PM

    @Keth Warsaw: NATO at the borders of Russia was certainly provocative. Not for a second defending the invasion, but people of a certain age will remember when Russia put nuclear missiles into Cuba the U.S. certainly would have gone to war as the threat was on their doorstep. Luckily an agreement was made. This time we may not be so lucky..The war jingoistic mantra from both side is the same as 1914.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 12:01 PM

    @Keth Warsaw: perhaps people should ask why Ukraine and other Eastern bloc countries want to join NATO in the first place? Simple answer, Russia’s neighbours have endured centuries of aggression, land grabs and invasions. Maybe they just want peace with security without having to constantly live in fear of the latest dictator to inhabit the Kremlin.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 12:05 PM

    @Joe Vlogs: Well said, but I think you’re naive if you think NATO would have said no a few years down the road. Also, if Ukraine does enter NATO, and is ever invaded again, then definitely we’re looking at WW3. Thus my argument for a neutral zone country. Also, NATO should never have taken in the other eastern European countries. But hey, just my opinion, and ya know, I could be wrong. But I also know there’s always wheels within wheels and no one side is black or white

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    Apr 14th 2022, 12:06 PM

    @Donal Desmond: so Donal now that Finland want to join NATO is that provocative? Do they deserve the same faith. Putin would have found another pretext to invade. He is the devil

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    Apr 14th 2022, 12:12 PM

    @Paul Shepherd: Absolutely, I agree with your sentiment, but allowing such countries join NATO, while this is good for NATO and perhaps temporarily for said countries, it also pokes a stick in the wasps nest that is Russia. Perhaps the west should not have intervened in an historical tradition that as you say carried on for centuries. Or perhaps the west should have went the slow way of evolution instead of revolution in taking in so many countries so quickly. We now have a situation where should any of the new NATO countries be invaded… Well, need I say.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 12:18 PM

    @Keth Warsaw: May I suggest a New Treaty of sorts similar to NATO be drawn up for the new NATO countries. In that, should any non-nuclear country be invaded by Russia, then only non-nuclear NATO members come to the rescue if said country. Thus keeping any future war potentially non-nuclear, and local…for local peeple.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 12:50 PM

    @Keth Warsaw: Any country should be able to join any international organisation it wishes without fear of reprisals from their neighbours. What Russia did would be like the UK invading the ROI, because we stayed in the EU when they left, but we share a land border! This is Putin’s sad attempt to rebuild the past. Also to those saying “Imagine how America would react if….” Guess what, we do not have to imagine, look up the Cuban Missile Crisis!

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    Apr 14th 2022, 1:55 PM

    @Keth Warsaw: Go back 3 years and pretend all this never happened. And say back then Finland decided they wanted to join NATO … would you have had such an issue and asked that they remain a neutral zone ???

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    Apr 14th 2022, 2:28 PM

    @John Comerford: Wonder would you put Tony Blair and George Bush in the same category?

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    Apr 14th 2022, 2:34 PM

    @Joe_X: With respect to the 1962 CMC, America actually played tbe role Russia are playing today. USA saw a potential threat and stopped it – Perhaps not as savagely as Russia now. You can bet if Canada did a deal with Russia to host bombs in Canada, the US would be right in there.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 2:37 PM

    @Pablo: Yes. I think a non-nuke NATO treaty light is needed. This all-encompassing NATO treaty is a bit much. The world to be driven to extinction for helping one non-nuke country? Madness. We need a two their NATO.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 2:52 PM

    @Keth Warsaw: I hate nuclear weapons … if we didn’t have them russia would be getting battered to bits right now.

    But the fact remains that NATO countries that are covered by Article 5 won’t get invaded by the likes of russia. What is the point of a light treaty if all the aggressor has to do is threaten to use nukes? It’s a sad state of affairs, but the mighty you are the more peaceful things will be. No wonder Sweden and Finland want to join NATO.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 3:01 PM

    @Donal Desmond: such a tiresome argument – “but what about….” We are dealing with the here and now. History is littered with bad people – gengis khan was a bad man, so was Stalin, Cromwell etc. all people like you do with silly arguments is legitimatise Putin by saying others are bad too.

    There is a huge difference from my perspective – Russia and Putin hate the west and want to destroy us. He is a threat to the west.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 3:18 PM

    @Keth Warsaw: and you hit the nail on the head….not as savagely as Russia are now. The USA did not invade Cuba. And just so you know for clarity, the Russian attempt to put nukes on the American doorstep, was actually preceeded by the Americans locating nukes in their allied nations of the UK and Turkey, not exactly the Soviet doorstep. The Soviets are now again over reacting, in the guise of Putin!

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    Apr 14th 2022, 4:13 PM

    @Keth Warsaw: people texting here seem not to care about that small detail as the saying goes you break a deal (Ukraine certainly did )you face the wheel ..feel very sorry for all them people ..but as always American military complex stirring things up and stepping back to watch from a distance…and that fxxk Biden don’t get me started

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    Apr 14th 2022, 12:21 PM

    People in the west are busy talking about reconstruction costs but meanwhile Russian state media and those close to Putin are talking about the complete erasure of Ukraine as a place and an identity.

    Where does everyone intend to rebuild if nobody is going to stop Russia’s conquest?

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    Apr 14th 2022, 4:21 PM

    @Rochelle: I haven’t seen any kind of statement from Putin that even remotely suggests that he is seeking the “complete erasure of Ukraine as a place and an identity”.
    Do you have a link please ?

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    Apr 14th 2022, 4:48 PM

    @Gary Dunne: Gary, nobody can be this naive!!! The bodies are there, the satellite images are there. Open your eyes. They have completely destroyed 30 hospitals. They have flattened Mariupol – and claim it was being liberated. The Russians lie and lie and lie and you swallow every one of them. You should be ashamed of yourself for supporting this murderous regime.

    I lived in Russia I know what they are like. They hate the west.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 4:53 PM

    @Gary Dunne: he doesn’t even recognise Ukraine as a state. Medvedev stated last week that they want to extend the empire to Lisbon. Shame on you for not being able to differentiate between right and wrong. They are targeting hospitals, refusing access. Don’t believe the media – look at what the Red Cross are saying, or Doctors Without Borders, the un, amnesty international. Human rights watch.

    Why do you doubt everyone except Putin. He has form. There is no free press is Russia. He murders his opposition. He is the devil.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 5:49 PM

    @John Comerford: I can’t say that I “lived” in Russia but I did work there and spend some extended time in Moscow in the early 90′s… I know that’s quite a while ago now and that the people may be a bit different but I have to disagree with your assertion that “They hate the west”. It’s a very broad statement to make, kinda like saying “The Irish hate the English”.

    There are countless videos coming out of Mariupol, interviews with the people that live there and are still living there in basements etc. The statements that these people make directly contradict what you are saying (easily found on YouTube if you’re interested). In a nutshell they basically say that they get humanitarian aid from the Russians and sniper fire from the Ukrainians (and these people are Ukrainians) .
    Now you might say that’s just propaganda and it’s not impossible that it could be, but to just dismiss it out of hand would be to just court your own bias.
    “The Russians lie and lie and lie”… as do the western media. Check out the NBC News (from April 6th) where US intelligence more or less says that they ‘make stuff up’ to discredit Russia… and they give plenty of examples of the “unbelievable” stories that they’ve put out over the past few weeks.
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-using-declassified-intel-fight-info-war-russia-even-intel-isnt-rock-rcna23014

    “You should be ashamed of yourself…” – and I would be if I believed everything that I read without ever looking for independent corroboration and evidence.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 9:40 PM

    @Gary Dunne: so the Russians are providing the people of Mariupol humanitarian aid and the Ukrainians are killing their own people!!

    You are deluded. Are the Red Cross lying?

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    Apr 14th 2022, 10:17 PM

    @John Comerford: We’ve heard the “killing their own people” thing before, during the Syrian war… except that then we we’re accused of being deluded if we didn’t believe it – now it’s the other way around.

    There appears to be an “us and them” mentality in Ukraine; A lot of Ukrainian people identify as ethnically Russian.. and hard line nationalist Ukrainians don’t like that. They (ethnic Russians) are generally referred to as “Orcs”.

    Yes, Russia has provided hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid. Again, if you care to look (on YouTube etc) you’ll find numerous videos showing it being handed out. You’ll also hear numerous stories from Ukrainians telling about how they were victimised, ousted, tortured etc (by “their own people”) for accepting the aid.

    More than 400,000 refugees have crossed into Russia and a similar number crossed into Belarus. Do you think they went there for a social visit with the “enemy” ?

    Are the Red Cross lying… ? I doubt it, but then you didn’t specify what it is that they were saying.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 11:56 AM

    We all saw the Ukrainian president draft all civilians in to the war, and we know that there wasn’t enough armor of all the people, and when he drafted the Civilians with normal civilian clothes ever one became a target, if he didn’t have enough armor and camouflage army clothes to spare. He shouldn’t have drafted the civilian population.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 12:09 PM

    @TheWhitelunalion: they are fighting for their lives, country, family etc. the Ukrainians are lucky to have such an inspirational leader. The world is unlucky that the Russians have such an evil one.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 4:02 PM

    @TheWhitelunalion: don’t see the guy in green picking up a gun .. just soundbites. .. my billax would I send my kids to fight for him…

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    Apr 14th 2022, 11:30 AM

    Interesting that he says if we fully sanction russia it’ll hurt the EU economy, then I was waiting for him to say money isn’t as important as human life.. but no, he says if we don’t sanction them it could end up still hurting us economically but even more so. You’d think by visiting the scene of such atrocity he’d park any viewpoint of economy being the most important thing in the world.
    Also i see in the pics they met the Ukrainian MP who Claire Byrne scolded live on tv for likening Russian soldiers to rats. She’s really getting a feel for useless conservative Irish figures of late.

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    Apr 14th 2022, 9:36 PM

    Gary, the US are declassifying information to get it out ahead of Russia. They called it correct that Russia was invading it and by sharing all of this intelligence and making predictions they make it more difficult for Russia to control the lies.

    The US are not lying. They are releasing information before it has been fully verified. Russia are known for their false flag operations. There is a huge difference.

    Again you defend and defend the Russians. It is disgusting. I will leave it there because I find your defence of this Russian massacre disgusting. You are on the wrong side of history.

    You are deluded if you think the people of Mariupol are happy with the Russians!!! Unbelievable. When the truth starts to come out properly you are going to be very embarrassed

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    Apr 15th 2022, 4:56 PM

    @John Comerford: “The US are not lying” ?? I think thats just making excuses for them. From the NBC article “But three U.S. officials told NBC News this week there is no evidence Russia has brought any chemical weapons near Ukraine.”

    and also – “The U.S. officials said there are no indications China is considering providing weapons to Russia. The Biden administration put that out as a warning to China not to do so, they said.”

    The US are clearly just making stuff up. They are fully aware that people will read those headlines all around the world and that most will not question it… and most will not be aware of the NBC article telling us that they just made it up !

    “Russia are known for their false flag operations”… ?? Well, the US wrote the book on it !

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