Impending refugee crisis.
“Personally, I’m not sure I care if a French frigate is practicing its anti-torpedo manoeuvres 70 miles off the coast of Bantry Bay, in the way I’d care about the Russians doing the same.”
“[This] is an attack on us.”
Casualties are horrific
“[Putin] is doing what was to be feared from the beginning.”
Boosting national food output.
Even if you ultimately favour Ukraine joining the EU, it should be because Ukrainian membership is good for the EU. Not because EU membership is good for Ukraine.
Can Viktor Orban be blamed for putting the needs of Hungarian people before the needs of Irish people when they came into conflict?
It’s very easy to say that this kind of thing is empty, bellicose rhetoric – but what if it’s not?
It is an open question as to how many Irish people realise that expensive oil is actually the state policy of the Irish Government.
If Ireland cannot afford to treat the people it brings here with decency, then it should not be bringing them here to begin with.
Crisis vs convention