Senator Tom Clonan says the US and UK 'would intervene' if Russia interfered with Ireland. PatKennyNT
in any scenario of a Russian invasion of Ireland:"De-facto, in real politique terms, it's game over: you're going to see a war between NATO and Russia."We do not belong to a military alliance, but we're not politically neutral.
"It's a forward airbase, as described by [former US Defence Secretary] Donald Rumsfeld and the others, it's on the US military establishment. "It's not peacekeeping we've been involved in - Irish troops have been involved in peace enforcement, which is in support of full combat operations in Afghanistan for the last 20 years as part of NATO."And in fact one of our generals, General Gerry Hegarty, was actually the commander of a NATO multinational division in Kosovo."There is a Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of the Defence and the UK MoD [Ministry of Defence].
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