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Ireland doesn't have 0 military capabilities, they have enough of a military to conduct peacekeeping missions elsewhere, which they don't need to do. They just
by reorder9695 11mo ago
Ireland doesn't have 0 military capabilities, they have enough of a military to conduct peacekeeping missions elsewhere, which they don't need to do. They just don't have the ability to defend an invasion, but they do certainly have a military that does good in the world.
- nradov 11mo agoOK so their capability isn't precisely 0, but it rounds to 0.
- dralley 11mo agoTheir "peacekeeping" missions are somewhere between utterly impotent / useless and actively counterproductive. Playing dumb and doing nothing while Hezbollah uses you as cover to launch missiles over the border from a couple hundred meters away is not keeping the peace.
- osiris970 11mo agoYeah, didn't they completely fail at stopping hezbollah from rebuilding, right in their backyard?
- istultus 11mo agoThat assumes that their mission is to stop anything. UNRWA's sole mission (like most large-scale nonprofits - not suggesting they're unique) is to continue to procure money for its 30,000 or so salaried posts.
- C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 11mo agoAdditionally, it assumes that the Irish, who broadly as a people support national liberation movements, would even want to prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding, even if they could.
- osiris970 11mo agoI mean what they think is somewhat irrelevant here, their UN mission was to stop terrorists from rebuilding, and utterly failed.
- C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 11mo agoThe UN does not consider Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization, so that could not have been their UN mission.
- dralley 11mo agoSeems like a failing of the UN, if true.
- simmerup 11mo agoIreland have an army with no tanks and an air force with no jets. How would they maintain peace in another country without the help of others
- Gud 11mo agoWho said without others? You don't need tanks for peacekeeping missions. Or jets for that matter. FWIW I was in Kosovo and served in a multionational task force including the Irish. they were based next to some chicken farm, lord knows why, you could smell them from miles away, if you were unlucky.