Ironfister:

In terms of immigrants/refugees, the distinction, for Ireland, is that we DO have a open doors policy for refugees (you said you did not know a country that had a open door policy). In terms of immigrants in general (refugees or otherwise): Ireland is in 7th place in the OECD (Poland is joint 15th with Germany), in terms of the share of immigrants in its population, with the foreign-born accounting for 17% of the total population. 46% of them arrived in the last 5 years compared with 22% on average across OECD countries. The foreign-born population is on average more educated than across OECD countries, with 43% of highly educated compared with 31% across OECD countries. 66% come from an OECD high-income country.

Finally the Iraq invasion was nothing to do with WMD's. It was a lie. There is enough evidence to prove it. They KNEW there were no WMD's, and no Iraq did not have ties to alqauida. If anyone had ties it was the US government. They gave weapons to a country and those weapons were eventually turned against them. who knew. If you dispute this position I would urge you to read more about it. Ye and well Iraq was rekt, with 500,000 children killed (and equal number of women afaik). Details.

I echo above, selecting Iraq is a poor example to support your position.

This post was edited by ferdia on May 7 2023 05:02am

I finally understand why some people are stupid enough to put bombs onto themselves and blow people up and why some parents in the United States wants to help their kids transition to another gender just by reading our Polish Friend's comments.

The article is from 2021 year, and the invasion took place in 2003.
We had less information back in 2003 year, the decision was made based on information available back then.
I wasnt saying that invasion is justified because of gdp growth, but rather that the country wasnt that very much bombed, as you are saying.
There was always a reason to leave Iraq, its not like USA war changed anything there.

So far Ukrainian gdp goes down. Russia was making trouble in Ukraine since like 20years ago, there was a frozen war since 2014, so Russia is already responsible for Ukraine low gdp lately.

But maybe paradoxically its true that Ukrainian gdp might go up after the victory war. Maybe an invasion and heroic defense will actually build up the Ukrainian nation to a level never observed before.
They already have new Heroes, like their president.
They are more patriotic than ever.
Ukrainians can now freely travel and work across Europe.
They have official candidate status into EU.
All they need now is NATO membership, to secure their future.

There are millions of refugees in camps in Jordania.
The conditions there were/are terrible. People are dying there.
If you say you have open doors policy why don't you go and get them, save them and bring them to Ireland? Give them social houses and enough money to make a living?
Of course you dont do it, refugees would have to travel in some kind of small boats, for Ireland to accept them, which is impossible because of large distance. Refugees/immigrants come to Italy, Greece, Poland instead because we are the border countries.
That's why although you theoretically might have an open doors policy, in reality you dont and just look for excuses not to help people survive.

ok well, with brevity here is my attempt at helping people: go read more about the causes of the iraq war before telling us that it was a Righteous/Just war. Perhaps if certain superpowers did not meddle in the middle east there would not be so many wars there.

This post was edited by ferdia on May 7 2023 06:39am

Czech president warns Ukraine against rushed counteroffensive

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/07/czech-president-petr-pavel-warns-against-rushed-ukraine-counteroffensive

He's right, i guess Ukrainians aren't hacks and know how hot the situation is. I would give them a second chance anyway.

You must be joking, the West / NATO have an agenda, NATO expansion is well documented, you should check it out.

Check what was said in 2008 (NATO Bucharest summit) and look up the EU - Ukraine association agreement that led to Euromaidan followed by the Crimea takeover and the uprisings in the East




Same as I said to ironfister

The West / NATO have an agenda and it's clear as day. It was decided long ago that Ukraine would become an EU member and NATO member. The West decided this, willingly taking the risk involved or are you arguing they're so stupid that they never saw this coming?

???
Ukraine applies for membership, its their decision to apply for membership in NATO and EU.
EU and NATO can either accept their applications, deny it or say "not now".
Is it really that hard to understand?

Consequences: Crimea takeover and uprisings in the East and now a full blown war and people like you seem happy about it SMH

Well done!