I don't mind reading stuff with which I disagree. In fact it sharpens up the thought processes and can help clarify one's own thinking. But yeah, Una Mullally's columns are banal, inconsistent and badly thought out. Not to mention blatantly pro Shinner.I see the Shinner Spokesperson seconded to the Irish Times has reiterated their pro-Neutrality position.
In what reads like an interrupted first-year student debating society speech from the late 1970's that she really really really wanted to get out of her system we hear about FG populism and American "warplanes" and how, in the face of the invasion of a European democracy by a totalitarian dictatorship the right (correct) thing to do is to reassert our neutrality (even though we are not, and have never been, neutral).
If one of my kids wrote that guff for a school project I'd be embarrassed for them.
This died in Ireland when Kevin Myers was put out to grass. I never agreed with him about anything (except Golf) but explaining to myself why he was wrong was the intellectual equivalent of weightlifting. I never followed him to the Indo however, too much sludge there.I don't mind reading stuff with which I disagree. In fact it sharpens up the thought processes and can help clarify one's own thinking.
Is it possible to be pro Shinner and have opinions that are not be inconsistent and badly thought out?Una Mullally's columns are banal, inconsistent and badly thought out. Not to mention blatantly pro Shinner.
Hmm... could here be a restitution fund for these loss scenarios using frozen Russian assets.“Irish aircraft lessors moved a step closer to the possible write-off of billions of euro worth of airplanes leased to Russian airlines after the Kremlin passed a law re-registering foreign-owned aircraft in Russia.
In a move interpreted as retaliatory against EU sanctions on Moscow over its war in Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a Bill to allow Russian airlines continue flying leased aircraft by putting airplanes leased from Irish and other foreign companies on Russia’s aircraft register.
The value of the Irish-owned aircraft leased to Russian airlines is estimated to be between €3.5 billion and €4.5 billion, making the Irish industry one of the worst-affected by the crisis.”
Won't matter a jot...they'll continue to fly them even when they're falling out of the skyHow long could it keep the planes flying if it can't get spare parts?
It's even worse than that. It puts even the planes they do own in jeopardy if it means companies refuse to provide parts etc for them too.Perhaps, but the Russian Bill is dumb short-termism.
It can only fly the planes in Russia & perhaps its few "friendly" countries as it cannot get international safety certificates.
How long could it keep the planes flying if it can't get spare parts?
What happens when the Ukraine war is over?
One could, I suppose, think that the Shinners were the best of a bad lot and one might well regard some of their policies as verging on quite sensible. ( I don't, BTW!)Is it possible to be pro Shinner and have opinions that are not be inconsistent and badly thought out?
Putin will claim it as a win, which it will be.... he's flattened his neighbour and will probably get to keep even more land. A few sort years he'll go again and things to really escalate then. Sanctions should remain until he coughs up 100bn+ to rebuild what he's destroyed.Possible signs of a deal... Zelensky says Russian demands are becoming more realistic, talk of a special neutral status for Ukraine similar to Sweden or Austria. An armed neutral rather than a demilitarised one. And it suggests like those countries it would not rule out eu membership.
Well I think there has to enough in it for Putin to claim a victory of sorts. Mission Accomplished.Putin will claim it as a win, which it will be.... he's flattened his neighbour and will probably get to keep even more land. A few sort years he'll go again and things to really escalate then. Sanctions should remain until he coughs up 100bn+ to rebuild what he's destroyed.
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