Sure how could anyone write seven minutes worth of stuff on what clearly is a simple black and white issue?
- Michael D Higgins is a cunt
Who is the author? A very unbiased and one sided attack there. Ireland is a neutral country and a largely democratic country. While some on the left (Wallace) have over stepped/ backed the wrong horse at times, itâs very important that anti war voices are heard and issues are debated. The rant here seems opposed to democracy.
The EU is pushing for militarism and for a while now FFG have been gently pushing this agenda. This is something that deserves proper debate and not the type of brow beating and emotional blackmail on display here on the back of whatâs going on in Ukraine.
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yes mate, the worst time to discuss Militarism is when Europe is under attack from a nuclear power
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'This is something that deserves proper debate â
7 minutes reading time is really ambitious alright when you canât manage a 30 second post above 
Scott is always worth a listen
Iâve kindly provided a link to the OSCE report relating to the week prior to the âstartâ of the war
https://listen.stitcher.com/yvap/?af_dp=stitcher://episode/208759737&af_web_dp=https://www.stitcher.com/episode/208759737&deep_link_value=stitcher://episode/208759737
Eh?
Neutral military wise
What does that mean? What does largely democratic mean?
Largely.
For the most part.
We vote for people then they do as they wish. Like for instance when the country was put under the controls of the IMF to save German bondholders - the average person didnât get any say what so ever even tho it greatly affected them and future generations.
Itâs a form of democracy i guess.
My fear is ffg will sign us up to some form of military agreement without the nation having a say. Despite @Raylan and his friend who wrote the piece above being anti debate i think we need to be very guarded about how ffg are trying to guide us towards abandoning our neutrality at the behest of the EU.
Thatâs incorrect. The main opposition party in the 2011 election called for a renegotiation, which they attempted. They were the biggest party at the general election. The vast bulk of our debt was to pay for current day matters
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I think the likes of Wallace and Daly are an embarrassment but thereâs a lot of silly exaggeration and inaccuracies in that article also.
Nothing to do with anything but carry on.
Well it is. You made two statements, both incorrect.
Did the government go to the people when they decided to secure the German bondholders and invited the imf in? A simple yes or no will do
The Government donât have to.
We donât live in Switzerland.
You cant even give a simple yes or no
⌠I never said they had to. You clearly cant follow the trail here or you just want to shoehorn in absolute rubbish
Reductive âyes or noâ questions when youâre cornered is weaksauce.
The country had every chance to reject the IMF EU deal, they didnât vote for parties who did that. There was that option.
What are you even talking about? Youve jumped in two footed and completely missed the point.
The free postage is gone. It was being abused as discussed earlier.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/1123/1337896-an-post-ukraine/