Ireland - now considered one of most vulnerable countries in the EU (defense wise)

To help move from panic, hype and confusion.

Towards clariry and reality.

Certain people with agendas related to the immediate issue love a bit of hype.

By which I mean the military fantasists, military hardware fanbois. They see all of this hype and confusion as an opportunity.

Some want to leverage it to improve our admittedly lacking defense situation, and others see it as an opportunity to become a u.s. puppet or have some nato related intention.

By asking who and what exactly are we talking about here we get to call out the bllsht hidden in the confusion.

Mostly stupid scenarios.

Foreign sponsored coup? Nonsense.

UK attacking the EU? Nonsense.

Nato (composed of EU states) attacking the EU? Nonsense.

Russia during a war ... ok within the outer realms of possibity at least.

cut our gold plated social welfare system to the bone.

The migration crisis will be solved. No longer an attractive country to sponge off.

The long term Dole spongers will have to get out and work and build houses helping solve the housing crisis.

The money saved can be redirected to border protection and defence further solving the migrant crisis.

Cut social welfare and the people won’t come.

The lazy will have to work.

More money for defence.

What are the chances of that happening?

What are the chances of someone getting elected on such policy goals??

Probably more than they were 4 or 5 years ago

A thread about Irish defence on here wouldnt have passed 1 page in length 4 or 5 years ago. Here we are on page 25

You can go on? Please do.

Heres some more.

People on social media ringing the alarm bell about the impending end of the world. Nonsense.

People on social media ringing the alarm bell about a flat earth. Nonsense.

People on social media ringing the alarm bell about young earth and dinosaurs being a lie. Nonsense.

People on social media ringing the alarm bell about the NWO and crisis actors. Nonsense.

Just because some nut strides around ringing a bell doesnt make it true.

That why we have sections like 'Walter Mitty'

For sht like UK might attack us, or there might be a foreign backed coup. Why not a giant octopus while youre at it.

I know youre just salty from when I called out your bulloney about closing the embassy.

But thats whats going to happen when one talks utter tripe, a kind soul like myself is going to radio you to come back into orbit, land your rocket back down here in reality, and dont shoot the messenger.

Just be glad its me, and not a mocking crowd.

Ill be around to call out silliness.

So in the words of Gervais to Pilkington.

DONT. TALK. SHT.

.....Play a record.

True. Other thing is this world and our neighbourhood is getting more unpredictible and dangerous. The strong friends we currently believe have our back in every single eventuality/danger might be too busy protecting themselves or their closer allies to cover us 100%. We may end up somewhat down the waiting list on the day the "black swan" ( some currently unlikely act of aggression) flies in + shíts on us!

What is it that riles people up about this topic so much! Anyway, I won't be doing that thanks, same as you won't be binning your smoke/CO alarms (no more batteries!), dropping value of your house insurance as low as possible (bye bye dead money on highly unlikely horrible events we don't want to think about!).

I just read all the stuff up further about the NWO, End of the World, the flat Earth, young Earth and the fake dino bones etc! 🤔

Unlike that insanity + vapours, natural disasters, pandemics, terrorism and even acts of aggression from hostile nation states do happen in this bad old world and could even, in theory, happen to nice mostly harmless little countries like us on very rare occasions.

Go start a thread about the odds of a foreign sponsored coup occuring here, in the military forum. If you believe in such twaddle.