WI: South African guns in Ulster hands

I don't see the Rhodesians doing this though. I would be surprised if they had toilet paper to spare by the end f the war, never mind weapons.

Well, that puts a damper on mentioning them at all, I guess.

At least if the excerpts from Ulysses that I've read are to be believed, Irish nationalists during the Boer War were pro-Boer, and I would guess that the Boers reciprocated the sentiment. So, it would be a bit of a reversal for the South African government to be funding the Loyalists, if the aim was to undermine the British.

Of course, a lot of alliances got shifted around during the Cold War, and if the paranoid anti-Communists in Pretoria viewed the IRA as part of the global Marxist conspiracy, they might see the Loyalists as kindred spirits on that front.

I don't know why you quoted my post because I was talking about Rhodesians funding Loyalists not South Africans funding Irish nationalists. Unless both were happening at the same time and there was a bizarro cold war between Rhodesia and South Africa, in a world where Rhodesia had the UDI but was not suffering from a civil war/insurgency and was for some reason locked in a proxy war with apartheid era South Africa, waged in the far off killing fields of Belfast.
 
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