MEP Clare Daly has denounced the EU’s sanctions on Russia in the European Parliament, saying the response “makes me sick”, and decrying attempts to replace Russian gas with “filthy fracked US gas”

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  2. Is she right in the head at all? Like 400 people died in the Bucha massacre yesterday. I understand being contrarian. But this issue has Europe completely united. Even the bloody Germans have abandoned pacifism and the Swedes are considering joining NATO.

  6. Fuck Clare Daly. Fuck Mick Wallace. Fuck Luke Ming.

    Their entire political view is about being contrarian, anti-west, anti-american, anti-EU, dick bags. They’d cozy up to any dictator as long as that dictator is Anti-West

    They’d piss on their own granny if she said a nice thing about “The West”

    And the worst thing is, they’ll be re-elected, because their constituents are idiots who love how they “stick it to the man”, and fight against the big bad EU.

    *”Sure he doesn’t wear a suit. He’s just like me – a man of the people!”*

  13. Completely deranged comments that betray her desire to grind a particular ideological axe than actual analysis of what’s going on.

    As for her comments about how not selling Kerrygold and using alternatives to Russian oil and gas would end the war sooner – you need a functioning economy to finance a war, sanctions are an attempt to cripple Russia’s economic capacity to fund the conflict.

    Blaming NATO is also textbook for anti-US politicians, but is inaccurate as to what’s actually happening. Putin has been clear that he sees the loss of the Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the Soviet Union as a “regrettable loss” for Russia. Russian Imperialism towards Ukraine predates the existence of NATO.

    If NATO did not exist, is Clare so naive as to think Russia would not have attempted to control a Ukraine that was looking westward.

    After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Eastern European countries began to look westward for better prospects (Poland finding greater economic prosperity in the EU than USSR), and after the Moscow friendly Ukraine President was removed after the Maiden Uprising protests, Ukraine was looking more westward for its future. This was clearly unacceptable to Russia and we are now where we are.

  14. > In late January 2022, Daly described the Russian troop build up on the Ukrainian border as being “clearly defensive” and believed there is “no evidence that Russia has any desire to invade Ukraine, it would be of no benefit to them”. In February 2022, shortly before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Daly (alongside Mick Wallace) was one of 52 MEPs who voted against providing Ukraine with €1.2 billion in loans to Ukraine against 598 MEPs in favour. On 2 March 2022, she was one of 13 MEPs who voted against a resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    What a fucking moron. It’s amazing she has the gall to show her face in the European parliament after that.

  16. The alternative to “spending billions prolonging the war” is to allow Ukraine to succumb to Russian aggression without support.

    No hiding how in Putin’s pocket this position is. Indefensible bullshit shillery.

  17. Clare is off her fucking rocker on this one.

    She’s so anti USA that even when Russia are in the wrong, she can’t admit it.

  19. I don’t understand how anyone can be that stupid not only to actually think or believe that but to actually SAY it in a parliamentary address?! Does she ever want to work again ?

  20. She’s not wrong that fracked gas is *much, much worse* for the planet than other alternatives – not the gas itself, but the way it’s harvested.

    Considering the state of the planet, Europe switching to it makes me very uneasy.

    Ideally, we should be switching away from gas entirely, but if we can’t, it’s really not good that we’re moving to be more reliant on the most-polluting form.

  22. Her Russian overlords will be pleased with her. Spreading dissent. She is basically saying let Russia do it’s Genozide, cause NATO exists.

  23. Daly and her long haired buddy are classic examples of what can happen when you go for the out of the box candidate to shake up the political class. For every Tony Gregory you get a few raving nuts more interested in the ego trip than helping people. Some will claim she lost it when she went to Europe but the signs were there when she was on the local council and a TD. There wasn’t a local campaign that she wouldn’t jump on and actually make the situation worse than better so her name would get more know. I wish her the best with her new life in Russia when she gets kicked out at the next election.

  24. Clare & Mick: “We denounce war, both sides should negotiate and deescalate”

    Russia commits genocide

    Clare: “Leave Russia alone”

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    Go fuck off you scum

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