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In 1969, Dublin requested that the United Nations send a peacekeeping mission to Northern Ireland, to stop what was seen as Unionist/Protestant bias in the Ulster Constabulary and British Army and nip a possible civl war in the bud.

How could this have actually come about? Greater violence? leaked documents showing Westminster complicity in Unionist action? Maybe an ATL US President (I'm thinking RFK and his friends in the Irish-American lobby) that would be more concerned about events. Naturally this would strain Anglo-American relations but following Britain's refusal to enter Vietnam and a scandal regarding sectarian bias from the government would the US take a Suez Crisis approach? Ie, both morally unable and geopolitically impracticle to stand by her British ally, with a little revenge mixed in.
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