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Monique Camarra's avatar

Great read, Alex. We found out that the route a lot of these people take is Turkish Airlines to Moscow and then they’re brought into the occupied territories by car. We also know that the Russian embassy bought tickets for Salvini and entourage to go to Russia. Again it was Turkish Airlines.

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Daniel O'Donnell's avatar

Here are two more prominent water carriers for Russia. These two are MEPs (so they have some platform) from Ireland - Claire Daly and Mick Wallace. They are regularly mocked and derided on Irish Twitter (or what's left of it) but Ireland desperately wants to be a neutral NPC in world affairs so it has no counterintelligence service at home to track the Russian intelligence operatives and it has a lot of people who support Russia because that's how you be neutral. /sarcasm

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Daniel O'Donnell's avatar

The European Parliament has just discovered that a Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka is an asset for the FSB. And she has close associations with the two Irish MEPs that frequently front for Russia too. Can't say where this is going but it looks like it could be interesting.

https://twitter.com/novayagazeta_en/status/1752364442786894035

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/01/29/latvian-mep-linked-to-wallace-and-daly-accused-of-working-with-russian-intelligence/

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Alex Finley's avatar

Yep! She also met with some Catalan separatists. I plan to dive into it soon for the course.

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Daniel O'Donnell's avatar

The two Irish MEPs are defending all the bad regimes, but most often Russia (because it causes the most trouble). There are some people who are... worked up. And there is plenty of reportage, not just twitter outrage.

https://twitter.com/Justinhead1982/status/1752207227023200478

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Mark B's avatar

"Pew pew! (That’s what I imagine Jewish space lasers sound like.)"

I'm pretty sure space lasers go "zzzzt zzztt" regardless of their religion or ethnicity. Now Death Rays go "pew pew." ;)

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Alex Finley's avatar

But aren't death rays also a form of laser?

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Mark B's avatar

Totally different type of ray. They're also invisible and were created by the lizard people.

(Of course I'm joking, but I could make a fortune selling this to Qanon believers.)

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