US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mhtadzbxlb2c?ref_src=embed

What a complete idiot!

Regarding Ireland and what we did and what some believe we should have done during WW2.
Jim O'Neill has put together some great research and responses on that front.

Ger Browne, another well regarded Irish historian made a succinct list too.

Ireland's actions over the course of WW2 and our faux neutrality served the allied cause quite well in the larger scheme of things.

Fair play to your Father. I had two uncles who fought in it too. The fact that the govt allowed people to go is moot, they could hardly stop them. We've had loads of people down through the years in other countries defence forces.

I'm not personalising this BTW, just looking at us as a country defence wise.

We have (at best) an almighty amount of critics of every war, attack, atrocity that takes place world wide. We send peacekeepers, hugely courageous men and women who have put themselves on the line on countless occasions and have died also while doing it. But as a country we are incapable of mounting any sort of defence that would save us from any type of meaningful invasion. We depend on other nations, that we criticise for their actions, to be able to come to our aid if such a scenario ever took place. Neutral my hole. Just a shower of false preachers and judgemental self righteous manipulators

There was no book of condolences for Hitler.

Fair play to your Father.

Fair play doesn't really come into it. He was 16 when he joined up, so the concept of fair play isn't a factor. Just as it was for the vast majority of men who joined up during both the first and second world wars. Essentially, they were mercenaries. The promise of a pension and a bit of misguided glory was probably uppermost in their minds.

The fact that the govt allowed people to go is moot, they could hardly stop them.

Well actually that's not 100% true. There could have been measures put in place to make it difficult for young men (and they were very young in a lot of cases) to join up with the British Army. When talking about this period of history, one must always be aware of the immediate history the preceded it. We have to be always mindful of the fact that prior to the second world war we had just come out of a centuries long struggle to eject an imperial power from our shores and many people, including those in government, were not happy about our young lads going to bat for the former enemy.

I'm not personalising this BTW, just looking at us as a country defence wise.

I have no interest in personalising anything on here. I'm only interested in fact. And the fact is that we had no real way of defending ourselves from attack during the war. We, as a nation, had just emerged independent from an empire that took and held our land by force and it took a long, long, time to eject that empire. We were in no state to go to war with another fledgling empire (Germany) and had no way to defend attack from that fledgling empire, except by asking the empire we just got rid of to maybe fly over our airspace. Something that they would have been incapable of doing in any case as their resources were already stretched.

"Defence wise", as you put it, staying out of the war was our best defence.

Did any of your relatives go on to serve in Kenya after ww2?

Where the head of the British in Kenya wrote to London stating they were behaving like Nazi germany and soviet Russia and if they must sin they must sin quietly. 1950s to 1960s. Burning people alive, executions, sticking glass and other weapons in to women and men’s orifices. Interning thousands in to camps. But sure weren’t they great lads altogether.

I think DeValera offered his condolences to the ambassador. And that often gets mistaken or mixed up with signing a book o condolences.

Nobody in Ireland even knew about Hyde visiting the ambassador until 40 years later - it was only discovered by chance in a document or diary in the mid 1980s. It was never even reported in the press or on radio at the time.

No, he didn't. There was a signiture which he gave his name to as part of official record. But there was no book of condolences in the sense that we understand.

He and Joseph Walse visited the German ambassador to Ireland, Eduard Hempel, at his ambassadorial residence in 1945 as part of his official duties. Both DeValera and Hempel were men of a particular sort who believed that official duty was important despite their political affiliations.

As an aside, Hempel wasn't that well disposed to the Nazi Party. But, from what I've read, both men seemed to get on on a personal level and DeValera felt that it would have been remiss of him not to have paid a visit to Hempel at such a time. He understood that, for Germans, whether they were sympathetic to the Hitlerian cause or not, the post '45 world was going to be a very rough time for them indeed.

DeValera, for all his faults (and I would have many criticisms), was no fan of either Hitler or Germany. But I believe that he observed the trappings of his office for better or for worse. In strict hindsight, it was probably a mistake (if we can call it that) for him to publicly attend a meeting with Hempel at such a sensitive time. But I think he considered it his duty to do so with someone he respected and valued as a friend.

If Dev had had the knowledge that the world had in the late 40's, I daresay he would have chosen a more private option.

Hmm … and yet the people have not risen up?

This article suggests the ambulance burning was a false flag operation

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/03/the-london-ambulances-attack-of-course-it-was-a-false-flag/

Nothing to say about the substance of his article?

Riveting stuff.