Few days ago Micheal questioned the Triple Lock mechanism.
Now a couple days later the Greens drop their insistence on it.
They’re walkovers.
Don’t see any reason why our own elected officials can’t just decide for us. Surely the best way to maintain neutrality is to make deployment of armed forces an internal decision.
Allowing Russia and China veto any deployment by Ireland is obscene, in fairness.
If you’re an angry tankie who resents them being called out, you can pretend America, Britain and France are as bad and be happy too.
Even the US deciding whether we use our military is outrageous, let alone Russia.
Letting any of the five UNSC permanent member countries block the deployment of our Defence Forces is pure insanity.
We could maintain a triple lock mechanism but change the UN veto to an approval from the president. It keeps checks and balances on our neutrality, while allowing more freedom and independence on our decisions.
Our government should decide where and when we get involved based on our national interests. The triple lock needs to go.
I would also argue the neutrality line is absolute crap – what Russia is doing to Ukraine is just wrong and risks destabilizing the EU so it’s absolutely in our national interests for Russia to lose.
We don’t have much weapons to give but we have plenty of AT4 disposable handheld anti-armour weapons that we could have supplied to Ukraine which would have come in very handy but we can’t give them because of neutrality
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Few days ago Micheal questioned the Triple Lock mechanism.
Now a couple days later the Greens drop their insistence on it.
They’re walkovers.
Don’t see any reason why our own elected officials can’t just decide for us. Surely the best way to maintain neutrality is to make deployment of armed forces an internal decision.
Allowing Russia and China veto any deployment by Ireland is obscene, in fairness.
If you’re an angry tankie who resents them being called out, you can pretend America, Britain and France are as bad and be happy too.
Even the US deciding whether we use our military is outrageous, let alone Russia.
Letting any of the five UNSC permanent member countries block the deployment of our Defence Forces is pure insanity.
We could maintain a triple lock mechanism but change the UN veto to an approval from the president. It keeps checks and balances on our neutrality, while allowing more freedom and independence on our decisions.
Our government should decide where and when we get involved based on our national interests. The triple lock needs to go.
I would also argue the neutrality line is absolute crap – what Russia is doing to Ukraine is just wrong and risks destabilizing the EU so it’s absolutely in our national interests for Russia to lose.
We don’t have much weapons to give but we have plenty of AT4 disposable handheld anti-armour weapons that we could have supplied to Ukraine which would have come in very handy but we can’t give them because of neutrality