Clare Daly

• Naomi O’Leary, “A year ago I began wondering: what happens in Syrian media when Mick Wallace and Clare Daly speak in support of viewpoints held by the Assad regime? I set up an alert for their names when used in Arabic, Russian and Chinese. Follow me down the rabbit hole” (thread) (pdf)

• Pekka Kallioniemi, “In today’s #vatnik soup I’ll introduce an Irish politician and a MEP from (South) Ireland: Mick Wallace. He aligns himself strongly with another Irish MEP, Clare Daly, and his love for both Russia and China has been evident in his recent comments and appearances.” (thread) (pdf) (Mick Wallace, Clare Daly)

https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/1618985882350141440 In today's #vatnik soup we'll travel back to Ireland, and get to a know an Irish politician and a MEP, Clare Daly. She strongly aligns herself with another Irish MEP, Mick Wallace. Like Wallace, Daly spends most of her energy appeasing Russia and China and criticizing the US.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/CRE-9-2022-06-07-INT-2-360-0000_EN.html

 Clare Daly (The Left). – Madam President, the Head of the African Union calls for an end to sanctions because people in Africa are dying and an MEP comes in here and bemoans it. I have to say, the arrogance is striking!

Russia’s invasion was a godsend to the worst elements in European politics. NATO’s dodged being obsolete, the arms manufacturers are getting blank checks and the Eastern European far right got to bully the rest of Europe into prolonging an unwinnable war against a nuclear-armed neighbour.

But the 100 days of hysteria are dying down. Fractures are emerging. Slowly, too slowly, Western Europe is coming to its senses. Scholz and Draghi want to build peace. Macron is against humiliating Russia – he wants exit ramps. But the extremists in Eastern Europe, backed up by the United States, are happy to see Europe wrecked in order to undermine Russia.

We don’t need more of this lunacy. We need a change of tack, not to deepen it. We need to end this death-drive. We need diplomacy, de-escalation and multilateralism.