Can anyone help in explaining this message? (details below)

"I dont follow politics or news, but it was on when i switched the TV on. 

We
as a country have halted all flights to and from Sharm El Sheik
airport, we are the first to do so and have not kept quiet about it. Its
a Russian charter flight, we dont like Russia, just thinking out loud!"

Particularly the sarcastic part! UK friends are sometimes harder to"understand for me.