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Written by Gavin O’Reilly
Since the launch of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine last February, there has been much debate within the southern Irish state on Dublin’s relationship with NATO, with many establishment politicians in favour of joining the military alliance, a view not shared by the majority of the Irish public.
With each NATO member expected to contribute a minimum of 2% of their GDP towards defence spending, the appetite for the 26 County Irish state to join the alliance amidst rising costs due to two years of lockdowns, just simply isn’t there, with the only possible event that could change this view being a false flag attack intended to radically alter the Irish public’s attitudes towards Russia and NATO membership. Something that has almost been grimly foreshadowed over the past year.
Last January, a month before the launch of Russia’s operation in Ukraine, Russian naval exercises in international waters 240km from the Irish coast would draw widespread condemnation from the 26 County political establishment, something that would garner worldwide media attention.
Since then, a point has constantly been raised by establishment voices that key communication infrastructure in the form of undersea cables would become a target for the Russian navy, the reasoning for Moscow to launch such an attack never being sufficiently explained.
Recent events however, indicate that a false flag attack on these cables, intended to implicate the Kremlin, may be imminent.
Two weeks ago, despite little publicity, the Chiefs of European Navies (CHEN) meeting – a summit composed of any EU or NATO country with a Navy – was held in Ireland for the first time since 2001, the same year that Leinster House allowed US warplanes to land at Shannon Airport en route to Afghanistan, an arrangement that remains in place two decades on.
In spite of the 26 County state’s supposed ‘neutrality’, senior US Naval commanders were present at the meeting, something which drew absolute zero criticism from the Dublin establishment, in stark contrast to their response to last year’s Russian naval exercises.
In coincidental follow-up timing, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, speaking at the European Polticial Community summit in Moldova on Thursday, announced that strong consideration was being given to the 26 County state joining any EU or NATO-led mission to enhance undersea security.
Hours later, it emerged that the Virginia Ann, an advanced US Navy ship capable of the deployment of deep-sea divers, had spent the past four months traversing between the southern Irish coast where the aforementioned undersea cables are located, and the southernmost point of Britain, the location of the Royal Navy’s Devenport base, home to Britain’s submarine fleet.
In further suspect behaviour, the transmitter of the Virginia Ann has been mostly turned off during these journeys, a move usually only taken when a ship wants to conceal its movements.
The close timing of these developments suggests that a joint US-Anglo operation involving the planting of explosives on undersea cables off the Irish coast, in a bid to blame Russia on the ensuing explosion and thus, fast-track Ireland towards full NATO membership, is either planned or has already been put in place.
Indeed, the exact same script played out last September when, during a referendum held in Donbass, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia on rejoining Russia, explosions would destroy the Russian-owned Nord Stream 1 pipeline in the Baltic Sea.
In the weeks following the Nord Stream explosion, strong evidence would emerge linking the British government to the attack, and in February of this year, acclaimed US journalist Seymour Hersh would publish a piece outlining Washington’s role in the blast.
US President Joe Biden himself ominously declared in early February 2022 that should Russia launch an intervention in Ukraine – which happened less than three weeks later – that the US government would ‘bring an end’ to the Nord Stream pipeline, with Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and chief Ukraine regime-change architect Victoria Nuland making a similar threat several weeks beforehand, one that now likely looks set to be repeated off the Irish coast in the not too distant future.
pandorinu skrinku otvorili debili zo západu, teraz nech sú posraní strachom, čo na nich z nej vylezie. patrí im to. dúfam, že rf sa pomstí za nord stream nord stream ii. majú na to plné právo!!!
opened pandora’s box indeed! yet no greek then ever imagined thermonuclear fireballs. pandora was sent by zeus to punish humanity for accepting prometheus’ stolen gift of fire. pandora slammed the box shut and only hope remained therein. there is hope then for peace before zeus gets his wish of extermination.
irelands shannon airport has had an “open secret” nato section for years. the us have even landed planes carrying b61 nukes going to europe. the cia, mi6 and others use the facility too. check for yourself. start here if you are lazy then dig deeper down the rabbit hole. https://www.shannonwatch.org/military
check out the “shenanigans” at shannon airport. there is a section that is so full of vipers and serpents to that st patrick himself would flinch.
when rússia start the militar special operation.. lol you are really a kremlin parrots southfront, no guts
it’s a war, not a special military operation. believe me i’m 100% convinced that putin has lost this war, unless some miracle happens. he wants to pull out in a face-saving manner. he wants zelensky to concede territory as a face-saving exit for him. zelensky still wants to fight for a couple more years if necessary. as long as the west continues to support ukraine, russia can forget about any negotiations that concede ukrainian territory.
non sense it is evidentlly that nato losing the war against russia .
suppose you are still watching the msm news channels and radio stations. poor you. may be somebody might be willing to assist you opening your eyes and thereafter your ears, perhaps?
so they are trying to blow the cables and stick ireland with part of the bill? the irish aren’t that stupid, even if they did wreck the cable and try to blame russia what concern is that to ireland. it’s just money grubbing, trying to trick the irish into paying for their so called protection. if the russians were to blow the cable what makes anyone think they would do so off ireland? you think they want to save gas? .
in the ditch of the curragh…old kathleen was always a whore. not her fault of course as empire doeiz whence liverpool and bristol were both city of whore to victorian empire.
small wondder as pelican of liverpool would pluck her chest to feed her child as victoria swoon as empress of india/our world.
way ta go there now vic as your children were murdered in old russia/germany, way ta go mother of empire…
it is time that russia blows up the newly build norwegian/gb pipeline.
if i may, this is nor elegant and with style, imo not “the russian way”, sorry. russia have more patience, thinking for the long term and have better and elegant ways to tell the opposition: here you are, now is payback time. that is all, no bother.
the only reason for ireland to join nato is for them to buy us and uk arms. finnland, moldova or georgia can argue that they feel threatened by russia but ireland can’t. russia never hat any amphibic landing capabillity and even if they had them, they would need to conquer parts of western europe to be able to attack it.
russia should have severed the cables months ago. ireland has been abused by the anglozionazi empire of shit since so-called “independence” from the island monkeys of pirate rock in 1922 and there is little the irish can do about it.
since the evil eussr took control of ireland and the local banksters and gombeen “political” scum turned the island into a washing machine for filthy and worthless ussan dollahs the country is about as “independent” and sovereign as guam or any other anglozionazi owned “country”. z
the irish government are a globalist set up of liberal politicians coalition’s who impose draconian laws on their own people with their new hate speech laws currently being inacted. they are pushing to get the country into nato a crazy move that has absolutely no advantage for the irish same as finland and sweden before them. the people need to stop it by going onto the streets and removing these criminals from government
correct. the indications are that is in their personal interest to push occupied éire, governed by an indian prime minister, into a mafia organisation.
god bless éire and its fantastic people.
a country cannot be half neutral and half nato. eire’s constitution has strict neutrality like switzerland, yet also apparently is a nato partner (troops from both apparently also in kosovo right now)! sinn fein, oldest irish party is winning elections, and re-unification is top priority. so what to do with nato – this is the question, the dilemma.
edward blewitt, biden’s direct ancestor, was directly implicated in the irish genocide of black ‘47 as a ganger at balina workhouse “the most feared and hated institution ever established in ireland”. as the ami’s “say it ain’t so, joe” . (black ’47 refers to the irish 1847 genocide by starvation – as they say, scratch an irishman and you get a black potato).
when uncle joe could deep six germany, just imagine the trivial detail of deep-sixing ireland. looks like nato needs cannon fodder.
the irish used to fight for the saxon shilling, then the king’s guinea. now for the yanqui dalla? (andrews sisters’ rum and coca-cola ).
do you think that might change in the near future? a finally bright future for éire and the irish?
suppose nato demands protection money first! nothing else! like every mafia organisation. then we will see, they might say!
just say no to nato. no thanks, get lost.
nato membership would be a huge tax and a loss of political control…nato wold not defend ireland from it’s greatest enemy but enable him….nato is more the enforcement of a particular political view than a means of defense.
i moved to ireland 30 years ago, because ireland was not a nato member, and i still feel the same. keep ireland out! nato does bad things. serbia, libya, etc.
correct, tim hadfield, exactly the same with us. no nato and keep the country for the people who are the owner of their land. btw, who told the alleged corrupt politicians to sell the country to the highest bidder? eu? nato? un? wef? or to all together, for a lumpsum?
hands off ireland, damn it!