United Ireland Poll - please vote

Exactly, that is why I think the invasion they did dally with was the wrong thing to do and it was a very different thing to what I suggested despite yours and blanches ridiculous projections.

Now, this is way off topic and is better suited to a history forum. I'm not risking a ban to hear ideas like the one blanch just posted. 'Bombing a country back to the stone age'...indeed. He doesn't think much of the British behind it all. ROFL.

Yes, just like the Russians expected that diplomacy would solve the Ukrainian situation and that everyone would accept the bona fides of their "peacekeeping" mission.

I don't know which part of the Vietnam War you missed where the NATO allies of the time attempted to bomb a country back to the Stone Age. The naivety of your proposal gets starker with every repetition of your futile defence.

More Putin talking points.

Do you think the Ukrainian people are brainwashed to want to look westwards and join the EU?

It is funny now that you are essentially taking the side of the aggressor with imperialist agendas. Oh that's right, Russia is seen as an enemy of the UK, so got to get the dig in...

As to a UI and NI, what diplomacy did SF/PIRA engage in first before they started blowing NI up? Let us not forget that the IRA welcomed the BA on the streets of NI, but then the IRA started collecting arms and taking potshots at soldiers. What diplomacy did they do before they started to kill BA soldiers?

No, that isnt the history actually.

The IRA humiliated found a new target for their overblown sense of teenage angst and decided to try and achieve a UI by physical force republicanism.

They started to stockpile weapons and have a go at the BA.... then it escalated.

But you never answered my question, what diplomacy did the PIRA do before they started their pot shots?

What diplomacy did the IRA do before they started to take potshots at the BA and started a bombing campaign?

the one that was attempted by the civil rights movement, which was met with beatings and shootings.

you know this.

Oh ok, so you admit that SF/PIRA didn't do any diplomacy with either government and went straight into shooting and bombing modes, yet you blame the two governments for their lack of diplomacy on the issue......??

That's an impossible square to circle.

I'm 25 and I hope in my life time that their is a united Ireland, my boyfriend is from Omagh but wants a united Ireland also 🤞😬

Are you still defending Francie's crazy idea that the Irish State in 1969 should have set the precedent for Russia invading Ukraine and gone into Northern Ireland on a peacekeeping mission to defend our citizens in Crimea Derry?

A bit weird you want to quote a post that is over a month old, but anyway Francie has made an absolute fool of himself still trying to convince us all that the Irish state should have sent troops over the border of a Nuclear powered NATO nation-state...

At the same token, he was arguing that this be done via the UN, but then it was pointed out to him that a) Ireland has a triple lock b) the UK has a veto in the UN and c) we would be unable to authorise this because of a) and b)

In other words, he doesn't have a clue what he is arguing over.

Another lie.

Not the first one about this either.

P.S. I am not trying to convince anyone. It's my opinion, take it or leave it.

Watching the Ukrainian resistance and having to cheer it while damning your own who did the same, must be rankling a few feathers on the high moral ground. I'm also surprised the Ukrainians haven't been told to lie down and wait for the Russians to be democrats like some suggested the Irish should have.

What is your advice to them going to be if the Russians win and take over and subjugate them Mark or partition off part of it?

So you are good with Ukrainian Nationalism, down on Irish nationalism.

OK gothcha!

What if they start shooting people (innocent people) dead in the streets mark after decades of treating them as second class citizens?

Are we allowed a wee bit of the Ukrainian spirit then or is it lie down and take it because it's the UK doncha know!

The hypocrisy would be fun to watch if it wasn't so ineffably tragic and sad.

The majority are no longer being subjugated by an army and sectarian government mark.

Nobody said the situations are exactly the same, but the nationalism/resistance to an oppressor comes from the same place.

You have no difficulty with one, tremendous difficulty with the other.

The equivalence between the North and Ukraine is the idea of invading a neighbouring country on the false premise of "peacekeeping" to protect an ethnic minority, as has been proposed on here.