Over recent weeks, there was a minor political kerfuffle after former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon stated “I’m spending a ton of time behind the scenes on the Irish situation to help form an Irish national party.” The MAGA ideologue told the Politico news website that there would soon be an “Irish Trump”. This would dovetail with official US policy. The recently published US national security strategy warned that Europe is headed for “civilisational erasure” and called for “cultivating resistance” to Europe’s “current trajectory”.
Those people who fear the external manipulation of Irish politics may react with anxiety to this news. But there is a much larger and clearer threat that is being ignored: Sinn Féin/IRA and its massive war chest of illegally-acquired funds.
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