That’s myopic thinking.
A Republic should be able to police its skies and seas.
Ireland can’t because we don’t spend the relatively small amount of money to do so. Instead we have the RAF trailing Russian planes down the West Coast. Irish Republic indeed.
Irish people have some bizarre notions about any type of defense spending. Seeing morons mentioning Iraq is bloody hilarious.
History moves on, the world order will naturally in time be upended again. The idea that we should have a Constitutional amendment to be neutral perpetually is tapped. In 100 years time who knows what the world will look like. This isn’t a bunch of neocons plotting Ireland invading foreign lands, it’s a bit of rational thinking.
It’s good that the current government have spent a bit more on it in the last year, at least allowing us to make some of the commitments outlined in the White Paper on Defence.