Israel has them, now Ireland should have them. Where is the Prime Minister at another party? The live missile drills as they are called is a perfect opportunity to practice with the Patriots. Russia is an enemy of NATO and it is only prudent to move such defense in place. We already know the Russians are horrible soldiers and they just might demonstrate it, too.
January 26, 2022
The chief executive of the Irish South (click here) and West Fish Producers Organisation (IS&WFPO) has said the area is "very important" for members.
Patrick Murphy says they want to protect biodiversity and marine life.
But Russia's Ambassador to Ireland says controversy around the exercise is "hugely overblown".
On Monday, Yury Filatov held a press conference at the Russian Embassy in Dublin.
He said the planned exercises by Russian naval vessels was "not in any way a threat to Ireland or anybody else" and that no harm was intended by it.
Mr Filatov said three or four ships would be involved, but he did not know if missiles or submarines would be used.
He said: "There is nothing to be disturbed, concerned or anguished about and I have extensively explained that to our Irish colleagues."
Mr Filatov also said the exercise was a "non-story" which has become part of a "propaganda campaign" about an alleged Russian threat to Europe....
In his delirium about returning the Soviet Union to it's old luster, he is sending warships to surround NATO and this is practice? It is not practice when he is amassing troops at Ukraine's border. Putin is taunting NATO to act and if it doesn't he will go even further. This is an act of war and not practice.
It is impossible to make speeches about reconstituting the Soviet Union and believe this is practice. The denial of the facts disputes sanity in believing this is practice.
An enormous amount of carbon will also be released into the troposphere at a time when it is expanding and squeezing the stratosphere. This is insane from every aspect it can be looked at.
January 26, 2022
By Dzirhan MahadzirMore than 140 warships (click here) and support vessels, along with 60 aircraft and a total of 10,000 personnel, will participate in the drills, according to the Russian MoD.
But the exercises have sparked alarm within Western nations in light of tensions over Ukraine. NATO countries have been surging out ships and aircraft and are accelerating planned deployments in response to Russia’s massing of troops on its border with Ukraine. Ireland protested over Russia’s plans to hold live fire exercises 240 kilometers off the Irish coast in February. Irish fisherman have pledged to disrupt the exercise, according to the BBC.
“We are letting them know that we will be fishing in our traditional fishing areas and if this has an impact on their exercise this would be considered a peaceful protest,” Patrick Murphy, chief executive of the Irish South and West Fish Producers Organization, said.
“We should be entitled to go fishing there, and if we’re fishing there then these boats, these warships, shouldn’t be having war games.”...
“We should be entitled to go fishing there, and if we’re fishing there then these boats, these warships, shouldn’t be having war games.”...
Putin is an absolute idiot. Worse then his soldiers, he actually believes the borders of the 1990s can be reconstituted. He makes no sense. Sentiment is not a valid reason for war. Dealing with him and his psychotic tendancies is a fool's errand.
Enemies don't play games!
The environmental and economic damage that comes with these idiotic games is intolerable and it should not be allowed. Place the sanctions and get it over with.
26 January 2022
By Lorna Siggins
Minister of State for Heritage Malcolm Noonan (click here) says he is “ deeply concerned” at the news that military exercises are to be conducted by Russia within Ireland’s Exclusive Economic Area due to the impact on marine mammals.
In a statement last night, Noonan said he had written to both Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney and the Russian Ambassador to Ireland to express his concerns.
“While we do not know the nature of these exercises, we do know that underwater sounds such as active military sonar can have devastating consequences for cetaceans including some of our rarest marine mammal species, notably the deep-diving and rarely-seen Blue whale, Sperm whale and beaked whales,” Noonan said....
The continuing resolution that Congress is currently operating under is grossly insufficient in funding the US Navy (click here). McConnell is to blame. McConnell is effecting readiness.
By John Grady
Putting an American aircraft carrier strike group (click here) under alliance control should be a “clear message to Russia” that its 30 members are unwavering in their commitment to come to each other’s defense if attacked, NATO’s secretary general said Friday.
Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general since 2014, – when the Kremlin annexed Crimea and openly supported separatists in eastern Ukraine – said he expected the same hand-over of command from the United Kingdom and France as the countries move naval, air and ground forces into member nations on the Black Sea.
Stoltenberg “was reluctant now to go too far” in detailing NATO’s options if the Ukrainian crisis escalates to armed conflict.
On the alliance build-up on its borders, “they are there to defend NATO allies,” not attack Russia, he said.
He welcomed news of the United States putting 8,500 soldiers and airmen on alert for deployment to Europe. In “times of uncertainty,” it was important that “North America and Europe stand together.”...
There was an accident in the Pacific today regarding the landing of a jet on a carrier. There is too much tension among the US Navy. Someone needs to find out what is going on and back down the tension. Mistakes need to be taken seriously. We may need retired generals to speak to the sailors and soldiers about this. Many of some of our most valuable leaders left the military under piss-poor leadership in Washington, DC and the White House. That has to be reversed in consultation work and soon.
The lousy virus could be at play, too.
