Didn’t want to pay for the boat out to garnish island
Ah so those extra guys Napoleon sent back in 1798 finally made it. Somebody tell Wolfe Tone.
They are there to chase the Russians away that the Irish navy were afraid to do
Since we don’t have much of navy and a airforce not fit for purpose, inviting EU navies to visit Irish ports via any Russian ships might be a good short term security measure. Also helps the local economy of those ports.
What app is that?
What app do you use to see these?
I would assume France, the UK, the U.S. and NATO are keeping an eye on activity near cable routes.
The vast majority of those transatlantic cable routes serve a lot of countries and are essential internet / telecommunications backbones. Many of them only pass near Ireland but actually make ultimate landfall elsewhere, mostly in SW England and NW France. We may be spurred into some of them. There are a few we tie into that route into the Nordic countries too.
Even the cables that only make landfall in Ireland are effectively US interests anyway, as they’re connecting US multinationals serving data into Western Europe.
A lot of the Russian activity isn’t in Irish waters either. So Ireland’s role in cable protection is fairly limited.
As an island, very dependent on subsea cables and gas pipelines, we should be much more capable of patrolling our territorial waters and EEZ though.
Considering how much income we have as a location for those multinationals, we should be spending a lot more on protecting ourselves.
We’re also really being a bit ridiculous in not having active military radar. If we can only see planes with transponders switched on, we can even warn civilian aircraft of some rogue Russian aircraft wandering into flight paths and we now have a situation in Europe where that’s not really a remote risk anymore.
The neutrality argument is fine, but we’re behaving like the hippy neighbour who thinks locking the hall door and not leaving the car keys in the ignition is bad karma. We should be capable of at least credibly protecting ourselves and we’re not.
Finally collecting the horse
Here to lower the retirement age?
NATO ships seem to regularly dock in Cork City.
Love the variety of ships you see along the quays.
The city will lose some character when that’s no longer possible.
They’re after Biden…
To be honest we should probably just join one of the European states, France would be a good shout, we would be a good little overseas department, doing as we’re told.
Protecting irelwnd from the British
There are always some army ships in Bantry Bay, I always thought they were always Irish.
The troupes you asked king James…. wait where is he?
Finally going to put a stop to us mentioning the Henry Handball
hopefully Stephen Maturin is around to dissuade the napoleonic rebels they’ll arm with guns on board. if not y’all are in trouble
Practicing their mocking, no doubt
They probably know something we don’t 🤔
If we were neutral then we would also welcome Russian warships.
Clearly people need to get their heads screwed on if they think we’re “neutral”.
Here to investigate how the natives don’t protest when the living and pension conditions are worse.
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[See this tweet for photo. Biden related?](https://twitter.com/helenriddell/status/1645493237988089856?s=46&t=OO1gXO-UtycAHHgdPfojOg)
NATO Warship, Go Love Yourself
Unfinished business from 1798
Acquitaine class frigate. Powerful little warship.
Macron is going to his holiday home on Whiddy there, he likes it there this time of year
They’re here to scoop up Ian Bailey and extradite him to France like Batman does to that fella in The Dark Knight
Chasing those pesky Russian nuclear subs
We can finally use those Martello towers
They pop by occasionally to make sure our baguettes and croissants are up to standard.
Looking for Greenpeace vessels to blow up??
Routine Patrols I’d assume.
Nice of them to stop by since we don’t have a Navy right now to patrol for us. Fecking embarrassing to say the least.
Routine raid to restock the Kerrygold.
Massive U.S. army aircraft flew overhead earlier, in assuming its all Biden related? Sounded mad loud
https://preview.redd.it/gqxl0mc0g6ta1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=1af9d4714db6c56055eb01cf0be75f1e0f84e9a7
Good. They’ll keep the Russians out.
Didn’t want to pay for the boat out to garnish island
Ah so those extra guys Napoleon sent back in 1798 finally made it. Somebody tell Wolfe Tone.
They are there to chase the Russians away that the Irish navy were afraid to do
Since we don’t have much of navy and a airforce not fit for purpose, inviting EU navies to visit Irish ports via any Russian ships might be a good short term security measure. Also helps the local economy of those ports.
What app is that?
What app do you use to see these?
I would assume France, the UK, the U.S. and NATO are keeping an eye on activity near cable routes.
The vast majority of those transatlantic cable routes serve a lot of countries and are essential internet / telecommunications backbones. Many of them only pass near Ireland but actually make ultimate landfall elsewhere, mostly in SW England and NW France. We may be spurred into some of them. There are a few we tie into that route into the Nordic countries too.
Even the cables that only make landfall in Ireland are effectively US interests anyway, as they’re connecting US multinationals serving data into Western Europe.
A lot of the Russian activity isn’t in Irish waters either. So Ireland’s role in cable protection is fairly limited.
As an island, very dependent on subsea cables and gas pipelines, we should be much more capable of patrolling our territorial waters and EEZ though.
Considering how much income we have as a location for those multinationals, we should be spending a lot more on protecting ourselves.
We’re also really being a bit ridiculous in not having active military radar. If we can only see planes with transponders switched on, we can even warn civilian aircraft of some rogue Russian aircraft wandering into flight paths and we now have a situation in Europe where that’s not really a remote risk anymore.
The neutrality argument is fine, but we’re behaving like the hippy neighbour who thinks locking the hall door and not leaving the car keys in the ignition is bad karma. We should be capable of at least credibly protecting ourselves and we’re not.
Finally collecting the horse
Here to lower the retirement age?
NATO ships seem to regularly dock in Cork City.
Love the variety of ships you see along the quays.
The city will lose some character when that’s no longer possible.
They’re after Biden…
To be honest we should probably just join one of the European states, France would be a good shout, we would be a good little overseas department, doing as we’re told.
Protecting irelwnd from the British
There are always some army ships in Bantry Bay, I always thought they were always Irish.
The troupes you asked king James…. wait where is he?
Finally going to put a stop to us mentioning the Henry Handball
hopefully Stephen Maturin is around to dissuade the napoleonic rebels they’ll arm with guns on board. if not y’all are in trouble
Practicing their mocking, no doubt
They probably know something we don’t 🤔
If we were neutral then we would also welcome Russian warships.
Clearly people need to get their heads screwed on if they think we’re “neutral”.
Here to investigate how the natives don’t protest when the living and pension conditions are worse.