“We’re not at that moment yet.”
“I do not say that lightly.”
A European army.
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.
The gloves are coming off.
Don’t poke the bear?
Western public opinion – or at least the peacenik element of it – is actively incentivising Mr. Putin to break the nuclear taboo.
You’d nearly wonder if the Kremlin was full of Fine Gael supporters, all along.
When a media organ is suggesting – vaguely – that some people making some arguments might be Russian agents, then that media organ is not doing the public a service.
Escalation management has been a concern throughout the course of the war in Ukraine.
Also: Fintan O’Toole’s extraordinary attack on cataract busses.