• Tarambor@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    It doesn’t need to as Ireland has a defence pact with the United Kingdom. The UK protects both Ireland’s airspace and waters due to how close it is to our own. Due to the size of Ireland it would never be able to field a military large enough to be of any use operating on it’s own.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      Yeah but we hide behind neutrality as if it is some greater moral position meanwhile we underfund and train our military.

      We could be doing a lot more.