MEP Clare Daly’s speech condemning sanctions against Russia is being cited on Russian state TV

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  9. With her speeches constantly going viral lately I’d say she’s extremely pleased with the attention she’s getting.

  10. She has now helped strengthen the Russian propaganda machine. A prolonged war means more human lives lost. More rape victims and orphans. More refugees for Ireland to care for.

    Voting for Clare Daly has put her in a position to make that speech. Who you vote for matters.

  16. Yeah, you know when an invading force is using your words to try to justify their position, you’ve lost the plot altogether. Nothing new there I suppose.

    She’d probably be up there defending Darth Vader and The Death Star if it were real. Imagine her in 40s Europe.

  22. Ahh Clare, Clare, Clare, seems like only yesterday she was visiting Iranian militai’s in Iraq, how time flies.

  23. If she ever got into power here within 5 years she would have Russian tanks on the streets of Dublin to prevent the people removing her from power at the next election. We need to get her, Wallace, Murphy, Boyd-Barrett and the rest of the PBP fifth column out of office ASAP.

  24. I mean of course it is, the Russians paid good money for that sound bite they’re going to get the most out of it.

  27. So socialist disagrees with sanctions..and wants a the EU to be a force for peace and not be a puppet of NATO..not exactly news

  29. Wasn’t that long ago she was accusing the White Helmets of killing civilians in Douma to make Assad look bad. Leftists who vote for her and Wallace are particularly morally confused.

  31. The woman is an embarrassment.

    I’d pay for the air fare just to send her to Russia if I could find an airline that will still go to Mordor the land of the orcs.

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    Did she ever receive money from Russia, some company or oligarch?

  35. She looks and sounds like a right nacker with her hoops, jeans and runners on. Did she think it was casual Friday at the EU?

  37. I understand what George W Bush said at the time – if you are not with us you are against us.

  39. I can’t actually deal with any of their shrill voices anymore, at least in terms of Wallace and Daly.

    I will link the article here for those who prefer to read rather than have their ears blown off with shrill geopolitical and amoral whataboutery. Not a word of fucking outrage against the mass murders, atrocities, rapes etc. Some socialists aren’t they now turned to 100% apologising for fascism.

    [https://www.independent.ie/news/mep-clare-daly-criticises-eu-sanctions-against-russia-and-claims-it-is-a-tool-of-nato-41527697.html](https://www.independent.ie/news/mep-clare-daly-criticises-eu-sanctions-against-russia-and-claims-it-is-a-tool-of-nato-41527697.html)

    Part 1 from her as it is quoted, my sarcasm to each part in bold.

    Speaking in the European Parliament on Wednesday, Ms Daly said sanctions against Russia have “unleashed economic devastation”, which she said will be “paid for” by the Russia people, including those “protesting against the war”.

    “How is not selling Kerrygold butter to Russia going to save any Ukrainian lives? How is buying filthy fracked US gas going to stop the war?” she said.

    “They won’t of course, because nowhere have sanctions ever succeeded in ending a military assault or achieving regime change.”

    **Kerrygold went on to say further down in the article that they had not been doing business in Russia anyways. Yeah the cost will be paid for ‘by the Russian people’. Not anyone else, right. Already have to a flier Clare.**

    **She goes on**

    The Independents 4 Change MEP accepted that Russia “bears responsibility” for the invasion of Ukraine but said that “we cannot ignore the role of NATO”.

    **The only problem with NATO was not doing more, and doing more more effectively in 2014. These stupid arguments about NATO being to blame were debunked long ago. The kind of thing you learn by actually interacting with people from Central Eastern and Eastern Europe like Poles, Ukrainians and others and actually reading proper sources and leaving student forums behind when you finish college. Daly sounds like a 19 year old fresher who isn’t able to check her sources here, rather than a European politician elected by a democratic vote. Voters did not elect her to give primitive warmongering dictatorships a free pass.**

    PART 2 The EU instead of promoting peace and acting in the interests of the people of Europe to Ukrainians, the EU citizens and, yes, the Russian citizens too has become a tool of NATO and the military industrial complex,” she said.

    “What is needed is an end to the conflict, *an end to militarism,* a ceasefire and a negotiated settlement.”

    **So the EU is to blame and they should represent Russian citizens who are not actually citizens of the EU… this end to militarism crap shows she is brainwashed too. It is clear who is doing all the butchery. Any military action by Ukraine is in self defense. Anyone can see that now, even if they thought they could use some leftwing pacifist anti NATO neutral views to argue differently in 2014. No mention yet of an end to Russia’s atrocities or how that would be achieved by ‘stopping arms sales’ and ‘asking Putin for peace’. Putin was asked many times for peace and diplomacy not war, even as the war started and was ongoing. He isn’t going to listen but thanks Clare, I am sure nobody thought of that in Kyiv, Brussels, Warsaw, Washington, London etc….NATO is doing all it can to avoid direct involvement too. It is just not true that they are getting involved directly or to blame. If anything, once again, they are ashamedly passive in not going far enough.**

    **Part 3**

    “History has taught us that sanctions do not end military conflict. They do not bring peace,” she said.

    “They make the people suffer, not the oligarchs – the people, the people of Russia, the people of Europe, and they’re not going to help save lives because the more arms you pump into Ukraine, the more the war will be prolonged, the more Ukrainians can and will die, and it might sound radical colleagues, but the answer to war is not more war.”

    She added: “We will sit down with Russia, there will be a negotiated peace and this organisation should be promoting it earlier. Rather than delaying it and making sure that more Ukrainians die, your feigning of sympathy rings hollow – it makes me sick to be honest with you.”

    **The last part is even more revealing. She opposes NATO or the EU sending military aid and sanctions. The only thing she does not seem to oppose would be doing nothing at all. Gee I wonder who that would benefit Clare..**

    **Who will sit down with Russia? This idiot? Imagine she was an EU commissioner or something. It is actually lucky she is not in a position of any influence. Everyone TRIED sitting down with Russia for years and years and years and gave them a free pass time and time again. The actions being taken since 2014 and more recently are limited and nowhere near what Ukraine wants or needs. NATO shot down a Polish, Danish and Baltic evacuation corridors and limited no fly zones proposal, when it probably would have been just those countries and nobody else. NATO is desperate to avoid this war and yet not a word of outrage against Russia, just an angry rant against the comparably pacifist NATO who just do limited arms shipments, intelligence and funding, not much else.**

    **She ends by disgracefully blaming the whole European parliament for ‘making sure more Ukrainians die’. You would seriously have to wonder if a bankrupt ex developer and a champagne socialist were not in receipt of other sources of funding. As far as I can tell no other members of the Irish ‘far left’ are even this extreme on this issue, usually just focusing on our own hypocrisy and neutrality etc but this above is shifting blame, promoting propaganda basically.**

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