Thanks to NATO standarisation of equipment, operational and planning processes we're fully interoperable!
Thanks to NATO standarisation of equipment, operational and planning processes we're fully interoperable!...folding us into a command structure we have zero experience of
I think the common language thing is relevant and not just a smart ass comment.I think it's more to do with childish anti-Americanism and a romanticised view of totalitarianism with a red hue.
We use the same ammunition but we aren't part of their battlefield system. That's what I meant.Thanks to NATO standarisation of equipment, operational and planning processes we're fully interoperable!
I don't know O'Toole personally, but I do know a few guys of a similar age who are friends with him all the way back to his college days. They would be part of the Worker's Party / Democratic Left / "sticky" tendency that did the long march through Irish Media and academia in the1980s and 1990s. Although AFAIK, O'Tool himself wasn't officially (see what I did there) a "stick" he certainly moved in those circles. The sticks had a number of core beliefs and convictions which could be summarized as follows:I see The Tool is feigning being anti Russian in today's IT. But we will never forget his smart ass comment that NATO vs Putin was not a binary.
Interesting that the Shinner MEP joined the Mick-n-Ming-n-Claire freak show to make up the quartet. Also interesting that the Shinners voted against the EU - Ukraine Association Agreement in the Dáil and European Parliament back in 2017. And Mary Lou now has the utter hypocrisy to express crocadile tears for the Ukrainian people!As for our 4 leftie MEPs who rejected the anti Russian motion in December resulting in Irish MEPs being 46% in support versus the norm of 82% in support.
It's also a Francophone thing. But both countries leftist "intellectuals" do indeed share a visceral knee-jerk anti-Americanism.This is not because our lefties are more leftie than France's. It is a reflection of a deep anti American streak in sections of our body politic, though I suppose the French are not particular Yankee lovers either.
....or a resentment of the Irish-American success story? The phrase "Returned Yank" was an insult of the highest order in my youth.This is a strange situation given that Ireland is second only to Germany in European countries claiming US ancestry and third only to Mexico overall.
Perhaps it is because, as someone once said, we are divided by a common language.
We use the same ammunition but we aren't part of their battlefield system. That's what I meant.
That sounds more plausible. A 40 mile long convoy sounded a bit made up; such might have many thousands of vehicles.The convoy is not 40 miles long, it’s a series of logistical ‘packets’ strung out along a major highway from the Belarus border, aiming to link up with Russian units on the northern outskirts of Kyiv.
A lot of that rings true to me. Also from my NI RC background I noted an identification of America with heathen Protestantism - movie stars as serial divorcers etc. JFK was regarded as a saint.I don't know O'Toole personally, but I do know a few guys of a similar age who are friends with him all the way back to his college days. They would be part of the Worker's Party / Democratic Left / "sticky" tendency that did the long march through Irish Media and academia in the1980s and 1990s. Although AFAIK, O'Tool himself wasn't officially (see what I did there) a "stick" he certainly moved in those circles. The sticks had a number of core beliefs and convictions which could be summarized as follows:
1. They were intellectually a cut above everyone else (a vanguard?) and definitely saw themselves as the smartest guys in the room.
2. They absolutely detested SF / IRA to the point of adopting a pro-unionist stance and condoning British human rights violations in Northern Ireland.
3. They had a sneaking regard for the Soviet bloc and particularly East Germany for some reason. One of them told me that it was a pity the Wall came down when it did, as the East Germans were on the point of renewing their entire housing stock and if it had lasted a few more years, they'd have needed a wall to keep people from the West out!
4. They hated Israel and saw all Palestinian terrorism as fully justified and moral form of resistance.
5. They absolutely despised and hated the USA and American culture. Largely, I think, because its very existence as a successful and prosperous society - and a magnet for emigrants all over the world, including Ireland - acted as a demonstrable rebuke and refutation of their own politics.
This is the milieu O'Toole emerged from. All their instincts would scream out that Russia can't be wrong and NATO can't be right. Thus the Tool's mealy mouthed effort today. In other words, if Russia is wrong, it's our fault for encouraging them to be like that!
Interesting that the Shinner MEP joined the Mick-n-Ming-n-Claire freak show to make up the quartet. Also interesting that the Shinners voted against the EU - Ukraine Association Agreement in the Dáil and European Parliament back in 2017. And Mary Lou now has the utter hypocrisy to express crocadile tears for the Ukrainian people!
It's also a Francophone thing. But both countries leftist "intellectuals" do indeed share a visceral knee-jerk anti-Americanism.
....or a resentment of the Irish-American success story? The phrase "Returned Yank" was an insult of the highest order in my youth.
Karl Martin's and James O'Hagan's letters to the Irish Times were well written. The former talked about our need to have a well equipped army to defend us and the latter was mainly about TD's and MP's showing up in their respective parliament and not listening to anything.There's ab excellent letter in today's Irish Times which sums up the problem with our 1948 non-aligned policy in the 21st century.
No, we are not neutral, we are unaligned.Our neutrality is in the hands of these guys!
A letter in today's IT from the Peace and Neutrality Alliance suggests that the west should give Putin everything he is currently asking for.
Just because it didn't work in 1938 doesn't mean it won't work now.
That is the most sickening piece of garbage I have ever read. What on Earth are these so-called Peace and Neutrality idiots thinking? Are they really, really that mind numbingly stupid? Or is it something more sinister?A letter in today's IT from the Peace and Neutrality Alliance suggests that the west should give Putin everything he is currently asking for.
Just because it didn't work in 1938 doesn't mean it won't work now.
That is the most sickening piece of garbage I have ever read. What on Earth are these so-called Peace and Neutrality idiots thinking? Are they really, really that mind numbingly stupid? Or is it something more sinister?
Yep, basically Roger Cole wants President Biden and Vladimir Putin to come to an agreement which prevents the people of democratic States expressing their sovereign rights.That is the most sickening piece of garbage I have ever read. What on Earth are these so-called Peace and Neutrality idiots thinking? Are they really, really that mind numbingly stupid? Or is it something more sinister?
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