Ireland - now considered one of most vulnerable countries in the EU (defense wise)

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Mines a Carlsberg and a rum & black 😷

Others might prefer a white russian?

So by your logic, why have any form of military? Why not just have a much larger coast guard and let them patrol the coast, no need to bother with nasty shooty things, just rely on the famous Irish charm to stop anyone popping over and doing something nasty.

no.

eu and other western countries would be watching the fleet from 1000kms away, we'd know well in advance.

today an invasion fleet of 50,000 cannot be assembled or moved or its route kept secret. not possible.

ah but would the eu and eu countries share this information with us? Yes, if for no other reason than we're tied into eu finances, and the eu economy. so if no other reason simply money.

ah but what could be done? we've got no proper navy, we can't handle that number landing.

well we could use our position within the eu along with a few billion to buy pmc's and govt specialists and equipment from any number of nations (including Ukraine) and fly them in along with the kind of tech which sunk the moskva. I can imagine Ukraine would be very happy to oblige.

or the same billions and diplomatic influence could cause sea-mines to suddenly appear en route, or a combination of a warning-shot torpedo along with a phone call to Moscow that the next one wont miss. who fired it? its a submarine so they'll never know. maybe an eu member state.

Im sure all of these fantasy responses have huge technical plot-holes, but then again so does a giant russian fleet attacking ireland/the eu.

lastly we all operate under the assumption that ireland doesn't have anything fancy that could put a hole in a ship, because we can't see any mention of such an ability anywhere online.

but why would the govt advertise that if they could. if you had such tools it would be in your own interest to only have them discovered as they're wailing their way towards a panicked aggressor.

iirc Norway had something like this in ww2. (way back in the 1940s think about it) Landing Germans knew nothing about any coastal torpedos until it was brown trousers time. Vague memory, ill have to look it back up, but I do belive it was a massacre. So theres a precedent. Tight lips can sink ships too.

Weren't Ireland always a vulnerable country since independence? The EU/UK/USA will be the childminders if there is an invasion of Ireland.

As the Island is of strategic importance and would be a soft entry point to the continent by any belligerent state.

Ireland simply does not have the resources to defend itself and has to rely on "soft power" within the EU and with the USA/UK so no big boys hassle the country.

Well a 50,000 troop landing here is highly unlikely ever. As to warnings we might not have much if it was a smaller landing force disguised as commercial traffic backed with submarines. They travel along our west coast all the time wouldn't take long to land at Killybegs, Galway, Limerick even Cork. The defences you mention would take time to organise and I doubt we have any secret weapons or a means of delivery at the moment. The main point of defence is to show a capability not to hide it too much in order to discourage any attack.

No, we are not covered. Our shameful jig is up. Other nations in the EU, as well as the UK and US can bring pressure upon us in all kinds of ways to do our fair share. The way people are talking here you’d think we were dependent on nobody else for our prosperity and security.

I know them as midges! I thought midget was a verry small person!

They are midges . I think your autocorrect put in midgets