I have to applaud the Irish vatnik community and their brothers in hamasnik community. You won! The Irish government is finally bowing to the constant pressure that you exerted. We're getting a squadron of modern fighter jets! I hug you and kiss you for your efforts 🫂
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It all started when the vatnik geniuses over at the Ditch started seeing visions of Israeli weapons being transported over Irish air space from the US. There was nothing Ireland could do about it given that we have no jets capable of air interception.
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Irish vatniks across the country jumped on the bandwagon and began campaigning for the Irish government to do something about it the Israel bound flights.
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Thanks to the big hitters like Paul Murphy and Mick Wallace making plenty of noise about the issue, the Irish government had to listen and take action.
12 top of the range fighter jets inbound!
Thank you 🙏 Thank you 🙏 Thank you 🙏
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On 6th Oct 2024, The Times revealed that Russian Intelligence used a honeytrap operation to recruit an Irish politician - alias "Cobalt" - who still has not been named publicly. A main suspect's name circulates in private circles.
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The Irish public was initially confused - The Times story indicated that Cobalt offered to connect the Russians with Loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland during Brexit talks. It didn't make sense. No Irish politician had connections to paramilitaries loyal to the UK.
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To demonstrate how seriously Irish politicians take national security, members of the Seanad (upper house of the Irish parliament) broke into laughter as they declared they were not the spy, one by one. Was the story a joke?
How “from Vladivostok to Dublin” became a central mantra of Russian fascism 🧵
It might come as a surprise to 🇮🇪 citizens to discover that 🇮🇪 features explicitly and frequently in Alexander Dugin's book "Foundations of Geopolitics" which influenced Kremlin strategy.
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I doubt many in 🇮🇪 have heard of Alexander Dugin. Some may have first heard of him in Aug 2022 when his daughter, Darya, was killed in a car bomb in Moscow. Alexander is thought to have been the target but he travelled in a separate car and arrived at the scene soon after.
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John Dunlop wrote "There probably has not been another book published in Russia during the post-communist period that exerted an influence on Russian military and statist foreign policy elites comparable to Dugin's 1997 neo-fascist treatise, Foundations of Geopolitics"
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Why are elements of the Republican party aligning with Putin’s Russia? 🧵
The common assumption is that Trump is to blame but there is another figure who can shed light on the shared interests of the Kremlin and sections of the Republican party. Rex Tillerson.
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Rex Tillerson served under Trump as the United States Secretary of State from 2017-18. He was fired via Twitter by Trump after only a year in the position. It was widely reported that Tillerson referred to Trump as a "moron" in a meeting with aides in July 2017.
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Before that, Tillerson served as the CEO of ExxonMobil from 2006-16. ExxonMobil is the largest oil and gas company in the USA and the 8th largest company globally by revenue. It has an international footprint and as CEO, Tillerson formed relationships with world leaders.
Screw it. I don't care about Mick Wallace or Clare Daly anymore. The Irish electorate has now been given every warning that they are the worst creatures this country has ever produced. If you don’t vote them out in 2024 elections then you’re thicker than MAGA Trump voters. 1/7
Here is one of the worst things that Mick and Clare have done. There is no excusing this. 2/7
I'm going to explore the 🇮🇪 comedian and actor Tadhg Hickey. Tadhg has come to prominence in the last few months, in particular after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct 7th. His posts have quickly progressed from rage farming to propaganda
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Tadhg has raised many eyebrows amongst his audience since Oct 7th for his questionable tweets about Hamas. We should note that Tadhg has been tweeting about Palestine for many years before Oct 7th. I'll pin some of his old sketches at the end of this thread.
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Tadhg got in hot water for a tweet from 8th Oct about the use of r@pe as a weapon of war when he said "to look at the act without the historical, political context of oppression and apartheid is unhelpful". He has since clarified the tweet and then seems to have deleted it.
Through NAFO, I get to know all the characters around the world linked to Kremlin propaganda. It shocks me when they pop up in Ireland meeting Irish politicians. I was reading this article by Gabija Gataveckaite about Sinn Fein and what name popped up only "Dan Kovalik"
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I suspect that only a handful of Irish readers know who Dan Kovalik is so mention of his name in the Irish Indo article might not get much attention. NAFO Fellas bonking Kremlin propaganda know who Dan Kovalik is and his name immediately sets off alarm bells 🔔🔔
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The Irish Indo article mentions that Kovalik travelled to Belfast and met with at least three Sinn Fein politicians during a book launch and public discussion at the James Connolly Visitor Centre. Kovalik is not the sort of character I would be inviting to Ireland.
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