It is comedy gold to me that people in this thread think self-defense is somehow a “right wing” issue, like they forgot all of human history. A bunch of ignoramuses who never lived with measles refusing to vaccinate their children.
Pure brain rot.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2024
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Politicos owner Axel Springer has a decades long history of breaking media thics code to push for right wing causes. So anything they write should be treated accordingly.
Exactly because of this is that so many dislike that bot.
Politico is maybe american left, which is still right.
Maybe from the american point of view of mediabiasfactcheck, but who cares about that on !europe@feddit.org?
Who bias-checks the bias-checkers?
They were bought by Springer in 2021 and have been on a strong right-side path ever since. The graphic is from 2018.
August 2018 is a long time ago.
Where could be safer for a country to be than next door to the notoriously non-invasive British?
They’re too busy self-destructing lol
I'll say I'm not at all happy with the attention-seeking headline of this article.
This has been known about for years, and unfortunately Ireland has never had an appetite to change it.
accuses the country of failing to uphold its responsibilities in safeguarding Europe’s northwestern borders.
Who do these military industrial complex shills expect to attack Europe from the northwest? Greenland? The fucking ocean? 🙄
Do I honestly have to tell you that many nasty things can indeed pop up from beneath the waves? That nuclear-powered submarines can travel vast distances without surfacing?
Ireland is nr. 3 in the EU in raw GDP per capita, bested only by Switzerland and Luxembourg. Yes there's a lot of letterbox firms, it's a tax haven, but even if you'd have to halve their number to correct for that, they're still just as rich as the UK and France.
How has the invasion of Ukraine not woken you up yet? Do you live on a different continent?
It sounds like Ireland isn’t producing any munitions or weapons and only has one boat in its navy that’s currently operational. Even if an attack isn’t expected in the NW side it’s clear that Ireland would be of no help to the EU in the event of an attack. Which unfortunately is becoming more of a reality. I think it’s safe to ask for some defense support, but obviously we don’t want countries to over militarize. There’s a fine line between a defensive military and an offensive military.