The Russians are coming
And they’ll be coming in force.
Not that NATO cares, NATO’s eastward expansion is troubling the Russians and one unlikely Nation.
A nation of poets, a place where every second person you meet has a story to tell. A land where everyone is welcome, a country that looks beyond everyone’s race, religion, and sexual orientation. Sounds great doesn’t it, well it kinda is, (we do love to laugh, especially at ourselves which is great craic) But one thing we are not, is fighters. Sure people like to say things like the fighting Irish (Mostly Americans)
But in fact, we’re not a nation of fighting men or women. We lack the military muscle to even defend ourselves. A Russian TU-95 bomber decided to fly close to our air space a couple of years past, (scaring the crap out of us, i might say) We needed the British RAF to run it off.
We have no fighter interceptors, no modern radar to detect these types of bombers nor could we shoot them down if they so choose to fly over Ireland. We have no surface to air missile capable of reaching the altitudes needed.
And now Russia is planning to carry out naval exercises off the coast of Ireland. We have five ships and they’re not fully manned. (We’re screwed) it is understood the Russian exercise will take place approximately 240 km off the coast of Cork. And Russia isn’t breaking any laws.
But the Russians have chosen the west coast of Ireland for a reason. They know we can’t stop them or pose any real threat to them. They mean to intimidate us, and it’s working.
