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Ireland having 0 military capabilities, and being completely dependent on NATO, while being extremely opinionated, on how and what NATO does, always irked me deeply.
Ireland nobly took a stand against fighting the Nazis in WW2, and they've been similarly brave ever since.
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The implication that having military strength is a prerequisite for having opinions about international policy is horrifying.
No offense but how is that not obvious by second grade. Don't have a big mouth if you don't have a big stick too. Ireland doesn't have quiet opinions, but a rather big mouth about other nations' foreign policy.
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> Ireland chose to take a position against colonialism By refusing to fight the Nazis? What? Are you implying that the Allies were the colonizers in WW2? (The Allied countries were also colonizers obviously, but within WW2 it's pretty obvious which countries were doing more of that, and more aggressively)
And since the Nazis invented the concentration camps in Mozambique and Namibie (taking example from Belgium) around 1909, i'd say they weren't that wrong.
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The implication that having military strength is a prerequisite for having opinions about international policy is horrifying.
No offense but how is that not obvious by second grade. Don't have a big mouth if you don't have a big stick too. Ireland doesn't have quiet opinions, but a rather big mouth about other nations' foreign policy.
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> Ireland chose to take a position against colonialism By refusing to fight the Nazis? What? Are you implying that the Allies were the colonizers in WW2? (The Allied countries were also colonizers obviously, but within WW2 it's pretty obvious which countries were doing more of that, and more aggressively)
What was a tiny, broke, agrarian country just out of a civil war that was still simmering going to do about the Nazis? They had a well-justified disdain for being pulled into the British orbit. They chose neutrality. Do you hold Switzerland and Sweden to the same standard? If Britain were to join in a conflict with Russia over Ukraine, would you expect Indian soldiers to rally to the cause of their former King and Co…
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No offense but how is that not obvious by second grade. Don't have a big mouth if you don't have a big stick too. Ireland doesn't have quiet opinions, but a rather big mouth about other nations' foreign policy.
I find this position abject, but I'm curious what opinions are you talking about specifically. Can you elaborate?
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No offense but how is that not obvious by second grade. Don't have a big mouth if you don't have a big stick too. Ireland doesn't have quiet opinions, but a rather big mouth about other nations' foreign policy.
At my school there were a lot of big mouths and no big sticks. Non armed debate is a thing.
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I find this position abject, but I'm curious what opinions are you talking about specifically. Can you elaborate?
Sure they have very extreme opinions about the Ukraine situation that they make very clear at every EU parliament meeting.
I'm also curious about what you consider a "very extreme opinion" to be in this regard.
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Ireland nobly took a stand against fighting the Nazis in WW2, and they've been similarly brave ever since.
Well, one can look at this as at least a step in the right direction, compared to the active collaboration with Germany during WW1 by the people who became Irish government by the time of WW2 arrived.
In Finland, we still call infantry Jägers in honor of those who went to Germany to receive military training and to fight against Russia.