I suspect that any sneak attack to liberate Ulster would get 3 counties in. The 3 counties of Ulster that were already part of the Republic of Ireland.
WI Ireland took advantage of the Falklands War to launch a sneak attack on Britain and liberate Ulster?
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That's my point, it was Exercise Armageddon, which pointed out even with everything they could find it was still going to be insane. If a Government had ordered it I imagine it would have leaked long before it was carried out and collapsed any government that suggested it.
You point out to me where at anytime Dublin has been in a position to change anything in NI without acceptance and permission of London since 1922?
You point out to me why speaking up for the minority in the north would have required unilateral action by the Dublin government, at any point since 1922.
Dublin can't say anything because the UK is/was the main trade partner by an enormous margin.
Dublin can't say anything because it has to protect its citizens living in the UK who might be targeted in any diplomatic escalation.
Dublin can't say anything because it needs to be a somewhat neutral partner to negotiate an agreement.
Dublin can't say anything to not appear overly partisan and revanchist in case the reunification ever happens.
Dublin can't say anything because it could invite unionist terrorism in the Republic.
And finally, while it can't say anything, I don't think many people in the Republic looked too closely where someone like Gerry Adams might spend his holidays while on the run from the UK
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You mean like having an entire Foreign Policy devoted towards arguing against Partition and trying to end it from 1922 to the Troubles? Like arguing from before the Troubles spiraled that Dublin had to be involved in any resolution of the underlying issues?
I doubt it, thats just more costs for London with no additional upsides.
Sorry, you miss understand me. I meant any attack from the Republic of Ireland to "liberate Ulster" would only get as far as the border leaving the Republic with the 3 counties of Ulster they already controlled.
Not with the Prevailing winds, fallout might be a bit hard to explain to the voters in GB.
True enough, I mean really that might be "hard" to explain to anyone else anyway...
"So the nation with less than 20K of military, effectively no Navy or Air Force was such a threat to a G7 major nation that you had to nuke it?!"
Again, "Whitehall says NO!", there's no way they would want to take on the costs.
And that would only be because it would take that long for the British Military to stop laughing.
One thing I wonder: I imagine the Irish would get most of their weapons from UK stocks and suppliers right? It'd make sense.
How much ammo did that peacekeeping neutral force like the Irish army keep in the 70's? How long until they'd have to ask nicely to the UK to give them some more bullets, in the interest of fairness?
In Ferriter's The Transformation of Ireland, he mentions the PM or some similar person in the Stormont regime getting a state visit to Dublin, while the leader of the north's Nationalist Party has his request to be "lunched" in the same style rejected, and is forced to be satisfied with "the humble of leg of lamb."
Maybe this snub was mandated by diplomatic protocol - or maybe it was an unnecessary two-fingers to our sundered brethren and sistren.