{"id":920939,"date":"2026-04-27T02:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/920939\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:32:22","slug":"island-of-ireland-in-absolutely-critical-position-amid-tensions-with-russia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/920939\/","title":{"rendered":"Island of Ireland in \u2018absolutely critical position\u2019 amid tensions with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Russian navy regularly deploy in the North Atlantic and, on this side of the Atlantic, it is the island of Ireland that is closest to that battlefield, so while we\u2019re not here today to conduct anti-submarine warfare, we\u2019re not here to track Russians or drop torpedoes, we are here to make the point partially that Ireland, the island of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Aldergrove, this airfield, will be strategically important in the future \u2013 of that there is no doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Russian navy regularly deploy in the North Atlantic and, on this side of the Atlantic, it is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[63513,1144,139,332,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-920939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-atlantic","tag-northern-ireland","tag-rnli","tag-russia","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116474330898702082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}