“Ensuring Ireland’s resilience will be critical in the years ahead.”
Training to happen “on European soil.”
Ongoing conflict.
Neutrality
All that the constitution says on the matter is that war shall not be declared, and no war shall be participated in, save with the consent of the Dáil.
Eventually, the Kremlin hopes, someone will crack, and push Ukraine to negotiate for a peace that allows Putin to come away with some kind of win.
“EU intervention force.”
The general assumption of pro-neutrality people in Ireland tends to be that because the threats to us are so low, defence is really not a requirement.
“For every €500 million we contribute €11 million.”
Simon Coveney says that neutrality means taking sides “from a military support point of view” in conflicts which don’t involve us. @Ben_Scallan says someone get this man a dictionary pronto.
Landmines are an especially evil weapon.
Military neutrality.