Who defends the Royal Navy in Irish waters?
It will take mass unrest in either Russia or Ukraine to bring this thing to an end, or it will take European resolve to crack.
This is only going one way.
It is very difficult to see how any self-respecting state, especially one as proud as the Danes, could possibly take a betrayal that lying down.
A welcome and overdue investment in Ireland’s defences.
Deeper implications.
Winning a new military ally, without that ally even noticing.
“Europe” is a Brussels fiction that becomes meaningless whenever crisis hits.
This is the funny thing about Irish neutrality: We see ourselves as neutral, but hardly anybody else does.
Holier than thou.
Begone, Tsarists.
Abolish the Triple Lock so we can do…… what, exactly?