The whole thread was created for the purpose of whataboutery m8.Shur even on the thread about the other regimes you think it's whataboutery to mention the other regimes![]()
But anyway.
2015, Sinn Féin abstained from a European Parliament resolution that condemned human rights abuses in Russia and criticised Putin’s annexation of Crimea in Ukraine.
In 2018, when the Irish government moved to expel a Russian diplomat in the wake of the poisoning of Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, Ms McDonald hit out at Mr Varadkar, who was then taoiseach, for what she claimed was “a flagrant disregard for Irish neutrality”.
She added: “Such a significant and dramatic Irish foreign policy decision should be dictated by an Irish security analysis.”
In 2019, then Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan accused the EU of being “overly confrontational” towards Russia and defended voting against plans to block a Russian gas line.
It appears this position has been maintained right up to December, when the party’s current sole MEP, Chris MacManus, voted against a landmark resolution that supported Ukraine’s independence, stressed that Putin’s military build-up at Ukraine’s borders represented a threat to Europe’s peace, and called on Russia to respect its international obligations.