Ireland Examining Neutrality After Ukraine War

We're getting to the nub of the issue here, it's not actually Ireland's defence arrangements or neutrality that's the issue, it's oven baked anti-Americanism of the type you here out of far left pamphleteers in front of the GPO.

That's all fine, but admit it for what it is.

It's coming they must have gotten wind via poling. Detest Varadkar as he's populist But on serious issues he does not put his head up unless he thinks there is a good chance. Like the flip flop on Gay marriage.

Oh ofc true. But I have noticed older Irish people have some misty eyed notion that Ireland is Neutral. When you point out the facts they still stick to the old guns. Neutrality here is a Government stand point not based in law. OFC they argue opposite.

IPSOS are a "private organisation" just as the other polling company, and IPSOS are not the Irish Times.

I don't know where you're pulling "unlimited poll partipaction from". It kind of looks like you don't know how polling works.

I'll repeat. Make your point, but don't make things up.

I'd rewatch Rambo 3 if I were you. Because the Taliban didn't exist in 1988.

And while we're at it...

I assume all the loud pro NATO advocates here will be the first ones on the frontline in NATO's next war of aggression? Or is the dying only to be done by the working class kids?

More likely the professional army we have that sign-up of their own volition. Which if you knew much about it, you'd know it draws its members from all stratas of Irish society.

We don't have conscription nor is it in the realms of reality that it would ever be introduced.

What's a "NATO war of aggression" outside a Trot pamphlet handed to disinterested pedestrians on O'Connell Street?

Milosevic was a war criminal of the purest sort, and him and the disease of militaristic and genocidal Serbian ethnonationalism got wiped from the Balkans - and the scumbags got a one-way ticket to justice in The Hague.

On this front, bravo NATO. They did the continent some service.

NATO would do it all over again tomorrow, and we should be grateful that they would.

Trots and Putin sympathisers on the left and right should cry into their semi-literate pamphlets about it.

The NATO mission in Afghanistan was a success and necessary. It was a security black hole. Truth be told, they should still be there and never left in the mid-2010s. (And NATO was there with the full approval of the UN btw, including Ireland which was a security council member at the time).