Nathan Stone

Irish in Brussels. Talk to me about politics, languages, rugby and books. 🇮🇪🇧🇪

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

Clearly Lukashenka didn't disable the Russian drone relay stations in Belarus out of the kindness of his heart, he did it because Ukraine's military strength in 2026 is sufficient to compel him to do so.

A significant shift in the regional balance of power.

[Edgars Rinkēvičs @edgarsrinkevics]

Russia has attacked the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra — a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Orthodoxy’s holiest sanctuaries. This barbaric act shows total disregard for religion, history, and culture.
As Russia continues its war, we will keep supporting Ukraine and its people.

[Lux_Stella @Lux_Stella_]

france's complete inability to force the rest of the EU to use french is one of the funnier recurring european subplots

[Dan the “Shadow Tanker Bonker” @realLangerDan]

🚨Russia is so desperate for you to believe that Irish Alumina is not ending up in the production of Russian weapons, they’ve sent their Irish mouthspeak and propagandist to Aughinish to film a documentary.

Nothing says guilty like sending this guy.

[actually @CentristMadness]

Kiriakou literally hosts a show on RT and people haven’t put it together

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Constructive, I hope, in that she asked you what a Deripaska-owned alumina factory was doing in Limerick and you said closing up shop.

[Paul Shapoval @Frialum]

Kinda sad that so many people ignore that this war is genocidal in its core

[SK Media @SpaghettiKozak]

Not one person in the audience ever asks what happens to Ukrainians under occupation.

[Aaron Gasch Burnett @AaronGBurnett]

Irish Russia policy vs. Irish Ukraine policy is where the neutrality argument goes to die.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Some people are looking at this and saying oh well let's continue sending alumina to Russia anyway

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Truly morally sickening: that anyone should wish all of Ukraine to suffer the fate of Mariupol or Bucha. Russian occupation of Ukraine means random arrests, executions, concentration camps; the destruction of language and culture; mass kidnapping of children. All of these things have been documented in the occupied territories and continue to go on.

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

Hasan Piker is an apologist for China’s oppression of the Uyghurs, Russia’s invasion of Crimea, the Assad regime, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.

Whatever your view on the ban is, it is not simply because he is a “critic of Israel”.

[Eoin Kelleher @eoinyk]

We're getting a bit of a reputation for two-faced holier than thou insufferable politics, and it's not good

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I’m actually pretty pissed at how badly they’ve bungled America 250. First they tried to invite Milli Vanilli and a bunch of other absurdly washed up geriatric one hit wonders. Then when that didn’t work they decided to convert the event into a Trump rally where Trump will talk about himself for 90 minutes. This should have been a massive, raucous celebration of the country and its 250 year history. Now it will be a political rally identical to the ten million other ones we’ve already seen.

[Jens Walter @JensWalterEU]

OTD Hitler-Stalin-Pact
"M. D'Ormesson holds that it is totally absurd to draw any further distinction between Hitler and Stalin, and argues that in Finland the 'barbarian bloc' has revealed the weakest joint in its armor."
May 29, 1940 The Northam Advertiser, AUS

[nik0p0l @nik0p0l5]

There won't be any Art 5 over this but what should've happened long ago was policy of NATO states to shot down missiles and drones over UA territory of they get to range of interceptors. It won't again, but it should've.

[Anastasia Klimash 🇺🇦 @nastasiaKlimash]

You can pretend all you want that sports is out of politics, but when you let Russian athletes compete under their flag, and their anthem is playing, it’s very much political for Russians themselves and an opportunity to harass Ukrainians and threaten them with further invasion

[Adrian P 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇪🇺 @AdrianP_doc]

Romania can't go to war with Russia. Nobody sane is asking for that.

What is the common sense action that all countries neighboring Ukraine should have taken since 24 February, 2022 is to cover air defense in western and southern Ukraine along the border so the Ukrainians didn't have to waste resources to defend us too.

That could have been done without fighting the Russians directly.

Romanians hit by Russian drones are in the hospital tonight because Romanian leadership and our allies were weak and indecisive.

[Jānis Dombrava @janisdombrava]

Latvijā valsts valoda ir latviešu! Mans pirmais rīkojums ir uzdot visiem iekšlietu sistēmā strādājošajiem darba pienākumu izpildē un savstarpējā saskarsmē ar iedzīvotājiem un kolēģiem lietot tikai un vienīgi valsts valodu!