Here is a recap of the Ukraine situation, for those choosing to reject propaganda and continue seeking truth:
December 1994, Ukraine agrees to give up its nuclear arsenal in return for security guarantees from the US, UK, France, China and Russia.
February 2014, Russia invades and subsequently annexes Crimea, President Obama does next to nothing. War through weakness.
July 2019, Trump admin withholds $250 million in military aid to Ukraine to apply pressure to investigate alleged corruption by Hunter and Joe Biden.
February 2022, Russia invades a weakened Ukraine, world expects Zelenskyy to flee and Kyiv to fall within days. Ukrainians fight bravely for 3+ years, inflict hundreds of thousands of casualties on Russian army, weaken Putin politically.
U.S. has sent ~$70 billion in outdated military equipment to Ukraine since start of war, providing opportunity for U.S. military to modernize its weaponry. We’ve sent an additional $30+ billion in budget support, $75 billion in ancillary appropriations related to war.
~50,000 Ukrainians have died defending their homeland, protecting U.S. and Western interests in the process. Meanwhile, the U.S. President and V.P. are calling democratically-elected Zelenskyy a dictator and berating him in Oval Office in pursuit of a financial payoff.
The U.S. should be thanking Ukrainians, who have fought for our common interests with only modest financial support from a country with a ~$30 trillion GDP.
America can and will reclaim its backbone again soon, with better policy and messaging from common sense moderates.
Slava Ukraina.
The big one!
It’s time for #MatchDaySorted 🥳🎉
Follow & RT for a chance to win:
2x Tickets to Ireland v France match on March 8th in AVIVA
4x Pints of @Heineken_IE
2x Match Day Burger
Winner announced lunchtime on Thursday, March 6th.
It's been claimed that Fine Gael have pledged half a billion Euro to landlords in their #GE24 manifesto.
@TJ_FactCheck ran the numbers and rated the claim as true. Read more:
https://t.co/x69La4BXD8
Here’s a video produced by “Led by Donkeys” out of the U.K. that puts down the timeline of how Musk used X to get Donald Trump elected. I would save it because I don’t think it will be up for long.
Leftists: If you're thinking of sitting this election out because of the Israel Palestine war, just remember Kamala is the only candidate who sat down with Anti-Zionist protesters and listened to what they had to say.
Trump literally claimed to be "The Protector of Israel."
A Trump presidency will mean the complete destruction of the Palestinian state, with a ONE STATE solution - and it's that of the state of Israel.
If you sit this one out, you're voting for Trump - who is best fucking friends with the war criminal Bibi. Your vote matters in this.
If you sit this one out, the destruction of the Palestinian people will be secured. Trump does not care about the Palestinians!
IF Harris gets elected, we must all come together and FORCE the USA to stop funding the Israeli war machine - to STOP funding genocide. Trump won't listen, and he would probably call in the military to stop our protests against Israeli war crimes.
As activists, we beg of you not to sit by and let a narcissistic dictator win this election. If Trump wins, there will be widespread ramifications for leftists worldwide. Together we can put a stop to all of this madness.
Signed,
#Anonymous
Israel is destroying residential buildings in Beirut in the middle of the day, unashamed, and unrestrained. From Gaza to Beirut, this is the world Western leaders have decided we now live in – impunity without consequences, brutality without justice.
Good News
New Technique Removes More Than 98% of Nanoplastics From Water
Using natural liquid ingredients that have low toxicity, the team has shown they can remove around 98 percent of nanoscopic polystyrene beads from fresh and salt water
https://t.co/9MdjAYBooI
This is one of the reasons why the housing system is broken in Ireland.
Dublin City Council is missing out on millions of euros in untapped revenue by not applying a 7% annual levy on the market value of vacant sites.
As of June 2024, Dublin City Council's Vacant Site Register lists only 38 sites with a combined market value of €124,275,000. Most sites on the register date back to 2017/18. If the council applies the 7% annual levy, they should collect €8,699,250 yearly.
Notably, 12 of the 38 vacant sites are owned by Dublin City Council itself, with a combined market value of €57,790,000. If the council applies the 7% annual levy to its own properties, it should pay €4,045,300 yearly.
It's worth mentioning that by the end of May, another new record 14,159 people were accessing emergency homeless accommodation in Ireland.
One way to view the scale of homelessness is to consider that Hill 16 in Croke Park has a capacity of 13,000 people.
In Dublin alone, 10,291 people were homeless—another new record—with 3,233 of those being children.
Dublin City Council Vacant Sites Register:
https://t.co/oYkBkHxkK0
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #HousingCrisis #Dublin #GAA #Ireland
If it is to maintain its reputation as a defender of Palestinian rights, Ireland must urgently review its financial connections to illegal [Israeli] settlements.
— writes @ClaireProvost for #AJOpinion ⤵️https://t.co/7dpHvY0x0R
Elon Musk says he is a free speech advocate, but is using his social media profile on X to promote far-right disinformation and feed a "frenzy" against immigrants, minorities and Muslims, says Marc Owen Jones, a disinformation expert.