Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Europe's Path To Transatlantic Self-Immolation: Can Ireland Escape? | Mark Price" video.

'The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness' John Kenneth Galbraith Replace 'modern conservative' with 'neoliberal' or 'liberal' elites or even 'neoconservative' if you like, but you get the picture. These people are a breed, a type, a kind and they exist in all our societies and the big problem is far too many of us listen to them too much for too long usually for own own selfish reasons.
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But I thought Bono just wanted to feed the world and promote peace, love and understanding???
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Ireland is, I believe, the ONLY EU member country that is constitutionally required to have a referendum on each new major EU treaty essentially because it inevitably results in the further surrendering of more of its sovereignty to Brussels. Mark Price's observation on the Irish Triple Lock on Neutrality being abandoned - the assurance by EU leaders of the maintenance of Ireland's neutrality was apparently sufficient to get the Irish electorate to change its mind over accepting the 2007 Lisbon Treaty - is very revealing. Further to that, without FULL ratification by ALL EU member states the Lisbon Treaty, essentially pointing to far greater integration, would have been dead in the water...
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@NiallJacob I wouldn't count your chickens just yet. A 'neutral' Sweden got bounced into NATO by its 'elites', as did Finland in 2022/3 without any specific reference to its electorates. The one thing that Ireland has preventing such a move would it should require a referendum due its constitution. What looks likely is that evidence shows that due to the post Ukraine 'new European security framework' it is gradually becoming a de facto member anyway whether its people like it or not.
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@Debz1707 It looks like you are correct. In which case it will be far more easy for your politicians to ultimately jettison and/or incrementally erode.
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When you sup with the Devil be sure to use a long spoon. Ireland, the UK and the EU have all failed to heed this sage advice. As Kissinger helpfully once said, 'America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests'.
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 @urrywest Same reason God saw fit to put American oil under 'West Asia'???
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Worse than that, in the UK it seems like MSM blanket editorial policy is to refer to it, still today, as 'Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine'. I'm no military expert, but the sheer numbers vis-a-vis Ukrainian forces, particularly initially, completely belie that claim.
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The problem for Ireland, of course, is that it is now a captured colony of corporate American interests and to a lesser extent the EU instead of the UK. Elites of every country sniff out the money and follow the power and Ireland's 'reassuringly' are no different.
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 @PaddyMacDaddy101 To give him the benefit of the doubt he could just as easily have been referring to US Corporations.
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