Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

It is me, then Deputies Connolly and O'Gorman. The Putin regime's invasion of Ukraine was an absolutely brutal, unjustified, criminal action and he should get out. Putin should get out of Ukraine. The Ukrainian people have the absolute right to resist that brutal invasion and occupation. However, particularly the powers that dominate NATO, the US, Germany and the UK, are not reliable allies in supporting people who are resisting occupation and oppression. They are not motivated by a desire to support people who are resisting occupation or who are trying to defend principles of international law. That is the key point. The Ukrainian people have discovered that to their cost since Trump came into power. Trump is now saying that the price of gaining support from the United States is that the Trump Administration wants to loot hundreds of millions of dollars worth of precious minerals from Ukraine. This is exposing the imperialist character of their intervention in all of this. It is a mistake for Ukraine to align itself with powers that are that cynical and that riddled with double standards. The double standard is most apparent when we think that the US, the UK, Germany and so on are simultaneously arming a power that has been guilty of a genocidal massacre against the people of Palestine and continue to support that apartheid, brutal regime and illegal occupation, the brutal persecution and oppression of the people of Palestine. Ireland must stand consistently against all occupiers, all perpetrators of genocide and breakers of international law. We should not align with the double standards of the powers that dominate NATO.

We want to consistently stand with the occupied and oppressed, whether they are in Ukraine or Palestine.

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