My post is only cryptic, if you didn’t get it.
The conflict in Northern Ireland goes before the 1920’s when snipers picked off one another, and a few Bobbies, across rooftops for fun, on a Sunday afternoon. Blood has been spilled by both Protestants and Irish Catholics, and there are families with ties with those ‘in the States’, that have kept things going through selective fundings, for that long, on both sides.
Sinn Fein just decided to come in out of the rain, and become legit, or at least a part of it. Now, gunrunning to other busybodies across the globe may have kept their pockets filled, but I suspect Sinn Fein will be using both the money, and the EU, for its true and only cause, separation from England, once and for all, now that Scotland has done that.
I look at the EU, as I look upon ‘The League of Nations’.
A lot of folks doing nothing, proposing a lot, and letting things get deeper in doo-doo.
The EU is nothing more than a shell game for royalists to come up with a new game plan to stay in power.
Belgium thinks it should be the political head, but has never had enough power, royally, to effect any change.
Rome thirsts to be the one and only religious seat, able to denounce any leader, of any country, and ‘excommunicate’ them, politically.
Germany still has the best military on the continent, and I count France for naught.
For most of Europe’s history, the words ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ are imported ideas, never having been truly part of Europe’s psyche, with all the monarchies, and vassal lords still living. If Europe were to desire freedom, from their very guts, every royal, vassal lord, and lesser royal would have to be stripped of everything, andf then their life, to blot them out completely.
You really are upside down in your thinking, which smacks of French Revolutionism, the real spark that gave birth to Marxism—and that’s the real problem with Europe today rather than the continued existence of nobility.
Let me tell you that if Sinn Féin were to accede to real power on the island the Romans called Hibernia, it will be an incredible debacle, very possibly leading to a bloodbath. And they will be in virtual vassalage to a certain outside power far more than they currently are. The EU will assure that neither Britannia nor Hibernia ever be separated from each other politically.
Were you aware that it was the papacy that actually pushed Ireland and England together politically in the twelfth century? Pope Alexander III gave Henry II the official lordship of Ireland, and his authority was over a predecessor of the European Union.