As far as bad omens for a new chaotic world of politics the sight of Romanian and Danish planes flying into Dublin Airport to provide emergency power generators should be scarred into our memory.
An above average Atlantic storm Éowyn tore strips out of the Irish electrical and water grid following touchdown late January with 25,000 plus Midlands residents still without power at the time of writing.
Ireland was forced to petition both the European Commission and NATO militaries to fly in a total of 12 power generators with just shy of three-quarters of a million homes in the dark in the aftermath of the storm.
As EU leaders meet to prepare to put the bloc on an effective war footing over the next year and Ireland’s economy lies sandwiched between Trumpist protectionist and a moribund Europe/UK Éowyn was a stage rehearsal for the inability of the Irish state to manage its own house.
While the Oireachtas remains transfixed on gombeen infighting over speaking time nevermind the Occupied Territories Bill global politics is moving on. Trump is actively dismantling the multilateral order by which an open small economy like Ireland relies on and very little thought is being given to what happens next in Dublin as the post-liberal world beckons.
Storm Éowyn was a D minus for our emergency response to civil disasters where despite decades now of climate change posturing we were not able to withstand a tough but relatively common winter storm system.
Similar to the HSE cyberattack of 2021 which left the Defence Forces calling foreign cybersecurity services of the lamentable state of Ireland’s air and sea defences the Republic is not even at the races for preparing for the state of things to come.
What if instead of an Atlantic storm the state is left to fend off undersea sabotage off the Irish Sea?
Is the Irish state ready to explain away EU, US and NATO troops occupying Irish strategic infrastructure out of our inability to protect our own turf?
How will an Irish electorate entirely allergic to any discussion on military affairs deal with the return of predatory geopolitics where small nations can and will be gobbled up by the strong.
Irish sovereignty in so far as it still exists is buttressed by a rules based global order that is evaporating faster than snow on a summer’s day. Small states are limited by economies of scale but the risk of the Republic becoming a space of chaos for the Western Alliance could be enough to force the erosion of our national sovereignty to even more pathetic levels.
“Ní hé lá na gaoithe lá na scolb” and neither is the moments before geopolitical disaster a good time to scramble for a nation’s strategic defence.
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Power to the People …..NO POWER TO THE PEOPLE AT HOME
Beyond a fu.king joke, when you think things cannot get any more ridiculous, insane, disastrous or utterly incredulous you’ve got to consider the Monopoly Of Murphy’s Law…an Irish Establishment’s Gift.
Something is seriously wrong in Irish Non Governance, this is not just another stupid fu.king failure to add to the never ending list of incompetence, incapabilities or incredible misfortunes…its planning.
DON’T SAY THEY’VE NEVER HEARD OF “BELT AND BRACES”
Techniques used by military,emergency,rescue and all work practices.
It’s not about what WE KNOW…but what WE DON’T KNOW regards what’s really going on behind closed doors of the ruling elite in Ireland.
No Government In History Makes That Many Fu.k Ups Continually
No Government in history keeps getting re elected continually
No Electorate in history keeps ignoring what’s happening to Country
No Nation in history keeps accepting its Genocide By Replantation
…..and you’re telling me that 21st Century Ireland Accepts All This Shite
Building fu.king walls n sheds for hundreds of thousands Above Price
Sending military ships out to fu.kin sea without operational gunpower
Begging not borrowing back up gennys from abroad after storms
Bending over Backwards to feed a glutinous insatiable Foreigners Appetite For ALL THINGS IRISH…and starving your own People.
Yes the power went out,the lights went out and nobody’s home, nobody’s
home in Ireland,no back up,no belt and braces,not a fu.king clue at all.
And two convicted felonious criminals are sending more your way,more problems your way because YOU HAVE NO POWER IRELAND .