For those in Ireland who ferociously oppose things like “an EU army”, then the basic reality is that Donald Trump’s policies on Ukraine and EU defence make that kind of thing vastly more likely.
Irish politicians have a major problem on this issue, which is this: On this topic, few would argue that they do not represent the voting public.
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“Such has been the systematic infantilisation of Irish popular opinion that this dependency is not a subject for national shame.”
No, he doesn’t need Simon Harris’s permission to do his thing.
“I’m trying to find words for this nonsense.”
The moral decay of American politics under successive Democrat regimes was exemplified by Biden’s presidency
“These are the departments which process the most sensitive information.”
“How many missiles have Hezbollah launched from Lebanon into Israel in the past year? Well over 6,700, all fired from an area in which the Army of this Republic has been ah – here follows a brief and slightly-embarrassed clearing of the throat – “keeping the peace”.”
In a world where keeping the mouth shut as a Christian is an increasing temptation
Breaking our own fiscal rules; expecting others to subsidise our defence; lecturing the rest of the EU on foreign policy. It’s a bad combination.
“We have not placed any restrictions on the use and range”.