56 thoughts on “Tuesday’s Papers”

    1. Gerry

      You’re right Stephen, pure vulgarity, Putin has a neck like a jockey’s ar$e to claim to be denazifying Ukraine.

      Nazis wage aggressive war to unite “countrymen” — check
      Nazis carve off pieces of neighbouring countries — check
      Nazis break international agreements on borders — check
      Nazis have a single crazy warmongering leader — check

      Russia is the Nazi, Putin the uncultured fascist thug of this entirely avoidable tragedy.

      1. jungleman

        Alternatively, SOQ the other day explained (kind of) that Putin invaded Ukraine to get the biolabs, something to do with Covid being the true motive. I’m not explaining it well. He said:

        “Russia moved to take those labs out as soon as the pandemic was over- join the bloody dots.”

        Anyone?

      2. SOQ

        Not trying to be overly pedantic but the problem with your theory is that it is the other side who are waving the swastikas- and that it is the Russians who are hunting them down?

        Details matter. Like when someone says they are a Nazi, there is a pretty good chance that they actually are.

          1. anti bot

            Guarantee there will be no reply. All a hole no come back. Decision of a cowardly bully. Are you going to retire again much like your alter ego

      3. jonjoker

        Gerry, it appears that you don’t know what the Nazis were.
        Every empire under the sun did precisely what Putin is doing, and every empire was very nasty – but the Nazis had an extra something. Like complete control over their population; like expanding across the whole of Europe (bar a few minor exceptions); like murdering whole population groups (homosexuals, gypsies, jews etc); a huge campaign of colonisation across the conquered terrirtories); a corporate state|; etc etc.

        1. Nigel

          You do know that Stalin was like Hitler, if Hilter won, right? He used famines as a form of social engineering and control. Yet the idea that people who might be neo-Stalinists in total control of a vast country with nuclear weapons is somehow not as scary as one small military unit in a small, otherwise democratic country?

          1. jonjoker

            Wrong as usual, Niggle.
            I have read quite a bit about Stalin, and he certainly wouldn’t have been my cup of tea if I had been alive then, but the war Hitler started killed many, many millions of people. We hear a lot about 6 million of them, but many more than that were killed in the Soviet Union alone. And that is all down to the Nazi invasion.

          2. Nigel

            He literally started the war WITH Stalin. Stalin had millions murdered in purges, pogroms, labour camps and famines. Okay, it’s not a competition, but the heirs of Stalin in charge of Russia are far, far scarier than one Nazi paramilitary group in Ukraine, and Ukraine has had a far longer, more ptotracted history of oppression with Russia than it had with Hitler.

    1. jonjoker

      Have you any comment on the most democratic country in the world banning 11 political parties, because, em, well, Big Zel doesn’t like them?

    1. SOQ

      I suppose Boris won’t be going to many KGB parties for a while eh? Best to keep a low profile on that front for a while I expect- at least when the media is around anyways.

      1. TenPin Terry

        Mate – you think Mehole is faking self-isolating in Washington with Covid so he could swerve a White House meeting with Sleepy Joe to avoid Ireland becoming a Putin target.
        You’re a walking advert for LoonyConspiraciesRus.

        1. SOQ

          That Boris met his Russian mates is on record- so no confusion there.

          As for the rest- all I did was to point out that with what may be going through Shannon, and not being NATO, Ireland is in a uniquely vulnerable position.

          If Russia was to invade Ireland, without starting WW3- there is frig all Britain or the rest of NATO could do about it.

          There is nothing conspiratorial in stating that- it is common sense. And while Ireland may be at the edge of Europe, it is still pretty close to both Britain and France.

          But here is a question- a genuine question- who protects Ireland’s skies now?

    1. TenPin Terry

      I do try to watch women’s sport occasionally but mostly it’s amateurish and quite dull.
      The ladies are not fit enough to play more than three sets of tennis and just end up grunting double-handed volleys from the baseline.
      International footballers are a joke playing poor pub league standard and rugby is just an excuse to make big lasses not feel left out.
      Women’s boxing – which is basically just windmilling on the cobbles at throwing-out time – would be vastly improved by the inclusion of handbags.
      It’s a bit like women and stand-up comedy.
      They’re just not very good at it – like Nish Kumar but talking about periods.
      The fragrant Lady TenPin is of a like mind. She often opines that the only places you should see a woman working up a sweat in is the kitchen or boudoir.

    1. SOQ

      Verbatim- please stop spreading such dis-information on this site- it is all Putin’s fault- ALL OF IT !

      Very good commentary btw.

  10. SOQ

    Ukraine’s president alienates Israel after comparing Russia invasion to holocaust.

    “Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky was accused of trivializing the Holocaust on Sunday after addressing the Israeli Knesset via zoom. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Benett denied Ukraine arm shipments but said he would continue mediation efforts between the two warring countries.”

    https://www.israel365news.com/267656/zelensky-tries-to-convince-israel-to-send-arms-by-comparing-russian-invasion-to-holocaust-fails-miserably/

    Given Ukraine’s history with the Third Reich and that is still infested with Nazis- no wonder Israel got offended.

    What an absolute idiot this guy is.

    1. Dinkum

      Only today an ex prime minister was broadcasting from a car again stating about Jews and the Holocaust
      He forgets their history where some of the worst atrocities were carried out by Ukrainian Nazis
      I find his words stomach churning
      Bit like a Black and Tan descendent trying to compare the Irish army with atrocities in Manchester on Bloody Sunday if that was a case of Ireland invading England

    2. jonjoker

      In fairness, althoug Big Zel may be an idiot, the Zionists are always on the lookout for an opportunity to be offended. It’s a form of mental ill-health.

    3. Nigel

      Seems like a weird thing to get offended by, since the Holocaust is something that actually happened in Ukraine, to Ukrainians, and far from the only genocide attmepted in Ukraine and on Ukrainians.

  11. stephen moran

    I can only imagine the self righteous din and hoots of outrage from the kings of false equivalence here if Israel was currently carrying out a similar “de-Nazification” campaign in Gazza or Lebanon to fascist Russia in Ukraine currently. The sheer lack of proportionately and sub de Pfeffel conflation here of bleating of poxy self indulgent drivers truck drivers and their mickey mouse first world problems with the war crimes currently being committed by totalitarian Russia against another sovereign independent state on a daily basis shameful.

  12. SailorGerry

    When Victoria Nudelman (fupp the EU) boasted of spending 5 billion USD to get the country to the point where they could over throw the democratically elected government and install a puppet, that moment is when it ceased to be a sovereign independent state. From that point on, it was just a US proxy for their containment strategy using an expanding NATO and a handy trough for the Ukrainian oligarchs to feed from.

  13. Dinkum

    I lived in france for near on a year
    When one went out to buy food at the local markets which are where many buy their food
    It’s all seasonal
    Last night I watched the news and there it was a apple growing facility complete with a heating system that uses gas and of course costs thousands a day to heat so we can grow crops that are not natural to our seasons

    As an agricultural country the solution is seasonal produce
    Agriculture really needs a rethink
    Let’s face it we can live without strawberries out of season
    We need to take a leaf out of the french book otherwise we are fecked
    A .good start would be the end of the CAP that reduced farming into indentured slaving over producing in beef and dairy
    I remember we used to grow sugar beet we used to grow many crops abandoned now as we imported it all from Turkey from israel from kenya
    Onions from chile
    Asparagus from Peru
    In the UK they have asparagus festivals same in france where the seasonal veg is produced and sold
    Here it’s transported from far off lands packaged in plastic and god knows the carbon footprint
    We now have the wake up call

    1. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

      Seasonal food actually contains the right nutrients your body need for that time of year too…ah harmony…I’m now missing my local market

      1. SOQ

        I agree- and the more local the better. Reminds of the natural treatment for hay fever, which is eating honey.

        The theory is that you expose yourself to a low level of pollen off season, so your body does not have an inflamed response when the pollen count goes up.

        Like most things, it works for some- but the trick is to ensure it is locally sourced, which makes sense.

    2. Fergalito

      I think we’re really missing a trick here in Ireland when it comes to food, the quality of which grown and produced here is second to none. We produce enough food to feed 60 million people most of which is exported like you say. I’d love to see thriving seasonal food market hubs with less of the snobbery and more of the muck.

      1. SOQ

        Problem is- the Irish Agri industry is dominated by beef and dairy. And until recently the reason for that was profit, although apparently there is little money in beef anymore.

        One area of big demand now is organic but there is also quite an upfront outlay and an costly cooling off period between crops, so that the soil cleanses.

  15. Fearganainm

    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is grateful, but is she grateful enough? I don’t know but the trolls will tell us:

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/22/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-iran-hostage-speaks-out

    “…Are you a man who’s got a massive view about how a hostage should behave after a lengthy incarceration? Are you 90% throbbing forehead vein? Do you like your prison victims pliant, and super-obsequious about having spent pretty much their young daughter’s entire life as the cell guest of a theocracy?…”

    Ah yes, we know the type.

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