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

Donald Trump is setting fire to the international rules based order. He is putting two fingers up to any notion of international law, morality and human decency. The most egregious example of this is that he has given a green light to Israel to restart and accelerate its campaign of genocide against the people of Gaza, directly emboldened by Trump's plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. The idea that being servile or diplomatic in front of someone who is out to set the world's international order and international law on fire and who is brazenly saying that this is about might is right, that he will take the resources of Ukraine, turn Gaza into a casino owned by the United States - maybe owned by Donald Trump himself - while the Irish Government, pathetically, tried to grovel in front of this pig and tyrant and pretend he is normal or that some sort of reasonable diplomacy can take place with this monster and the monstrous agenda he is pursuing, is pathetic. What is even worse than that is that while Trump is doing this - emboldening, encouraging and greenlighting genocide against the people of Gaza and Palestine - the Irish Government is, through the back door and deceiving the Irish public in the process, smashing up Irish neutrality at precisely the time when Irish neutrality is more important than ever. Our precious tradition of neutrality is based in our history of fighting against empires, freeing ourselves from colonialism, empire and all the apartheid that was inflicted on us. We abandon our neutrality by getting rid of the triple lock so we can align ourselves with Europe as it militarises and pulls closer to a NATO military alliance controlled by precisely the powers that have armed and emboldened the genocide against the people of Gaza. Of course, Putin is a tyrant, an imperialist, a thug and we need to stand up against people like him, but do we seriously suggest we do so by aligning ourselves even more closely with a NATO military alliance dominated by the United States, Britain, France and Germany, the very people who are arming the Israeli genocide against the people of Gaza? We should be standing now proudly on our neutrality, not aligning with them and not giving up the triple lock and we should be imposing sanctions and being a voice for peace and against the thuggery that both Putin and Trump represent.

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