“Well, thanks for showing that you have no understanding of the European Union.”
I clearly understand it much better than you do. The EU is killing exactly NO ONE IN IRELAND but the British killed many. Britain invaded Ireland. The EU didn’t. Britain banned the Irish language in official proceedings. The EU didn’t. The British seized land from the Irish. The EU didn’t. The Irish can leave the EU any time the want and they can do it without firing a shot. It took centuries of armed resistance for the British to get the message.
“As for “Black and Tans”, if that’s a dig at Churchill,”
It’s a factual statement about the BRITISH. Do you know ANYTHING about Irish history???
“then I want to know why a Faustian pact was made with communists at the IRB when there is not supposed to be fellowship between light and darkness.”
We made “a Faustian pact was made with communists” in order to defeat Fascists in World War II. SO DID CHURCHILL, or didn’t you know that??? The simple fact is a nation fearing it’s destruction will align itself with the enemy of its enemy even if that second party is just as bad as the first. Or is that news to you?
“Ireland can no more “break away from the EU any time they like” than any Soviet Republic could break away from the USSR in spite of the “freely secede” clause in the Soviet Constitution.”
Completely false. The EU will not be sending tanks to London if Brexit happens. What EU army will occupy Dublin if Ireland leaves the EU? How will that army get there? What ships will it use? What aircraft? Who will pay for it?
“I would call that vassalage.”
If it’s vassalage it’s FREELY chosen and can be abandoned at any time. Not a single shot would need to be fired. It took 700 years to get rid of the British and IT LITERALLY STARTED WITH VASSALAGE and not your phony version of it. Britain had an occupying army in Ireland and killed huge numbers of people over the centuries. The EU will do nothing of the sort in Ireland and couldn’t do it even if it wanted to. The EU doesn’t have the energy, the manpower, the equipment, the money, or the balls. The British did.
There is no such thing as freely-chosen vassalage; one gets duped into it. Never mind “freer” (which they’re not) when the goal was to be free in the full sense of the word, which Ireland was between 1948 and 1972 and then threw it away, just like with the Treaty of Lisbon re-vote (they had to vote again because the EU elites determined they had voted the wrong way).
Never mind your equivocation. The EU has caused many in Ireland to be homeless of late, never mind jobless; as soon as the EU gets the military it has been craving for decades, the deaths will follow. And any deaths that England committed in Ireland were not unprovoked; go study the history.
And no, the USA came to Russia’s aid in WWII, because a Russia controlled by the Nazis thanks to Stalin’s own Faustian pact with Adolf (resulting in being caught off guard) would have been an incredible geopolitical disaster. Not the same as the Fenians collaborating with communists at all.
Got any more excusings of statism?