How weird to relate military alignment to casual sex in the headline of an article.
Slubbe on
I think our neutrality is kinda just an optimistic convenient excuse for having no actual defence capabilities
We joined a NATO ITPP in February, have the RAF policing our skies, have US troops keeping Shannon duty free afloat.
Our peacekeeping missions don’t work at all, the defence forces in Lebanon are there to help keep Hezbollah out of the south which they just don’t do, and even had a soldier killed after making a wrong turn and we did nothing
We’re a neutral country in the sense we actually have no military capabilities at all, but we are a NATO ally and have traded our neutrality for outsourcing our defence
We can’t join NATO, we couldn’t afford the defence budget requirements, but we’re trying our best to let NATO defend us.
Whether it’s a good thing we save on defence by inviting friendly allies do it is something i don’t know
Future_Ad_8231 on
Considering we have an army and navy, it’s a stra get conclusion to say we’ve no mitary capabilities.
Were neutral in a sense we dont send our military to fight in wars between other countries. We use our military to protect the peace.
I dunno why we’d bother to invest heavily in defence.if a superpower wanted to invade us. We’d be fucked anyway. However, the UK pretty much has to protect us because it’s in their interest to do so.
FleshyPhlegm on
We don’t need to invest in defense until we should have done it years ago
golaulin on
“Why bother, it’s wasted money anyway!”
Norway, US, and UK have to rush resources to the wesssssht when Russians test boundaries with global infrastructure in our seas at risk.
There’s an arrogant privilege with some Irish that I really worry about, because there’s a bare minimum that Ireland is failing at.
johnbonjovial on
Fuck this. Does anyone believe russia is a threat to ireland ? Its madness.
global-harmony on
Hug and kiss the military alliance ran by those who have caused most wars since ww2 and are openly backing brutal genocide and land theft in Palestine. Russia will just waltz on into Lithuania and then onto Poland, triggering NATO and EU defence protocols starting WW3 just for the craic after they’ve lost a huge amount of men and resources in Ukraine yea. Which is it, Russia is collapsing and pathetic and can’t even beat Ukraine or Russia is an existential threat to all of Europe? Every day the narrative changes, the nazis used the same narrative that the USSR was a crumbling weak state yet also a major threat to Germany. Russia can’t even maintain one aircraft carrier now and are at their relatively weakest point in decades.
And don’t forget the scary Russian “disinformation”, not a night goes by where I don’t have nightmares over this. Sometimes I dream of Putin single-handedly stuffing millions of Trump votes into ballot boxes in the US in 2016 and going on dates with Victor Orban because of course local citizens have no agency and are just controlled by evil Russian “disinformation”. Anything against liberal narratives, such as questioning enormous flows of refugees during times of extreme pressure on accommodation, healthcare systems etc is “Russian disinformation”. Prepared to be downvoted to hell because of the enormous presence of “Irish” Americans, influence ops bots and extreme liberals on this site.
bubbleweed on
Yeah Russia is going to invade… something… through Ireland, sure.
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How weird to relate military alignment to casual sex in the headline of an article.
I think our neutrality is kinda just an optimistic convenient excuse for having no actual defence capabilities
We joined a NATO ITPP in February, have the RAF policing our skies, have US troops keeping Shannon duty free afloat.
Our peacekeeping missions don’t work at all, the defence forces in Lebanon are there to help keep Hezbollah out of the south which they just don’t do, and even had a soldier killed after making a wrong turn and we did nothing
We’re a neutral country in the sense we actually have no military capabilities at all, but we are a NATO ally and have traded our neutrality for outsourcing our defence
We can’t join NATO, we couldn’t afford the defence budget requirements, but we’re trying our best to let NATO defend us.
Whether it’s a good thing we save on defence by inviting friendly allies do it is something i don’t know
Considering we have an army and navy, it’s a stra get conclusion to say we’ve no mitary capabilities.
Were neutral in a sense we dont send our military to fight in wars between other countries. We use our military to protect the peace.
I dunno why we’d bother to invest heavily in defence.if a superpower wanted to invade us. We’d be fucked anyway. However, the UK pretty much has to protect us because it’s in their interest to do so.
We don’t need to invest in defense until we should have done it years ago
“Why bother, it’s wasted money anyway!”
Norway, US, and UK have to rush resources to the wesssssht when Russians test boundaries with global infrastructure in our seas at risk.
There’s an arrogant privilege with some Irish that I really worry about, because there’s a bare minimum that Ireland is failing at.
Fuck this. Does anyone believe russia is a threat to ireland ? Its madness.
Hug and kiss the military alliance ran by those who have caused most wars since ww2 and are openly backing brutal genocide and land theft in Palestine. Russia will just waltz on into Lithuania and then onto Poland, triggering NATO and EU defence protocols starting WW3 just for the craic after they’ve lost a huge amount of men and resources in Ukraine yea. Which is it, Russia is collapsing and pathetic and can’t even beat Ukraine or Russia is an existential threat to all of Europe? Every day the narrative changes, the nazis used the same narrative that the USSR was a crumbling weak state yet also a major threat to Germany. Russia can’t even maintain one aircraft carrier now and are at their relatively weakest point in decades.
And don’t forget the scary Russian “disinformation”, not a night goes by where I don’t have nightmares over this. Sometimes I dream of Putin single-handedly stuffing millions of Trump votes into ballot boxes in the US in 2016 and going on dates with Victor Orban because of course local citizens have no agency and are just controlled by evil Russian “disinformation”. Anything against liberal narratives, such as questioning enormous flows of refugees during times of extreme pressure on accommodation, healthcare systems etc is “Russian disinformation”. Prepared to be downvoted to hell because of the enormous presence of “Irish” Americans, influence ops bots and extreme liberals on this site.
Yeah Russia is going to invade… something… through Ireland, sure.