Comments by "KavaLogue" (@kavalogue) on "NewsNation" channel.

There's a bunch of issues here. To say we have no issue with is is a weird statement, it's 230ish km off the southern coast, in our patrolled waters. That's like our naval service doing live fire exercises off the coast of new York, not to mention we weren't even given an option, just a warning. Do we have an issue with Russia? No. Not really. Is Russia an issue? Absolutely. If Britain is the target there's absolutely no way they won't want Waterford, Dublin, and the east coast of the north. Ireland is the strategic gateway to Europe were basically a giant naval port. And with rising tensions if they're to be believed and there's fire under the smoke, them running exercises like this off our coast puts us in even more Danger. We absolutely cannot beat them, that's off the table, and to refer to another comment it is unfortunate that in times like this the entirety of out country looks with wide eyes speaking of help, to our oppressors, but we managed to subdue a big dog, and if they will stand with us, alongside our agreements with America and NATO, there's a better chance but even higher reason to be concerned about them being anywhere near our coasts. Personally, I don't actually know or think this will become war, but that doesn't mean we should let them go snorkeling down in Kerry.
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@sergeys.960 Dude. I'm not forced to believe anything. Russia doesn't care one bit about Ireland. But our country is a key strategic point for the attack of Europe or America. If you don't understand that we cannot converse because your having a different conversation completely
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@sergeys.960 Now more importantly. The area they have chosen to carry out their training is a deep sea trench in the area where sub sea cables that they already previously attacked, are situated, and who's purpose is to connect Europe to the rest of the world. This isn't about big bad Russia. This is about a nation whos creating rising tensions across the world, opting to choose a very suspicious location within our economic zone to carry out training exercises involving missiles. It's a area of extreme importance and under the right circumstances, a legitimate target to start an actual conflict. We reject it. All you other countries cannot tell us what we should and shouldn't do. Do yourself a quick favour check the location of their testing on Google earth and realise how ridiculous it is that they choose there
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@sergeys.960 And I understand that your coming from a place of peace and love, I get it. But there isn't any room for that j weapons testing. You cannot look at it line a normal person. You have to view it as tho it already was wartime. The location is perfect for launching on Ukraine, it's perfect for submarines. It's perfect from a strategic military standpoint. It's abhorrently wrong from a political standpoint. I guess my question then is why don't you allow the Chinese army to conduct their training and missile tests within your own economic zone?
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@sergeys.960 I agree with you mostly, and again I understand where your coming from. But I think the other issue at hand is, Russia is one of the many countries who despite not being up to date with their enemies, will attempt a confrontation nonetheless if it comes to it. I don't believe much will come of this. I also don't foresee war. But unfortunately we're dealing with volatile parties who can flip that no going back switch within a few minutes (not talking about Nukes but a large scale attack on multiple nations triggering a world wide response) and the core problem is, you as a military are denied access to a country to test extremely dangerous designed specifically to kill explosives (missiles) by that country itself- you cannot decide to continue to do so. If this is allowed we're going to see China in new York, the Pakistani army in British waters, and the Koreans shooting missiles over Paris. Because it negates unwritten rules that when broken only ever lead to conflict. I, and pretty much everyone in Ireland, have absolutely no issue with Russia. But they're negating the status quo, and acting rogue. And even if they have no I'll intentions. They're essentially telling the world they're bombing an extremely high value point which allows the world to converse, and nobody can do anything about it. There's so many legitimate worries from a strategic, political, and war time point of view. This training exercise is opening a very dangerous door. And not to mention these exact sub sea cables, that the Russians Themselves have already previously attacked. It's literally a "don't look while we try our mission again" scenario
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@sergeys.960 100%. I'm there with you on all of that and in complete agreement. I think a lot of people are getting caught up in the who's who and who supports what, when the issue is this just shouldn't be a topic, and diplomatic discussions concerning Ukraine should be priority Úno, instead of mobilising troops. We have a fragile world and it's just a terrible terrible time to take the stance Russia is. An unfortunate situation to describe it as a whole. Hope your well. Be safe
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