Military Neutrality
Dail Éireann — 2025-02-26
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

The point of the UN part of the triple lock is that we do not deploy troops in conflicts between the big imperial powers. The Minister is right: Putin is a nasty imperialist aggressor. However, is it not interesting that he does not call Trump a nasty imperialist aggressor when he has just said to the Ukrainians, "We might consider giving you a few weapons, but only if you give us all those raw materials in your country", or while he is trying to do a real estate deal on top of the broken bones and bodies of the victims of genocide in Gaza. The Minister does not mention him as an imperialist or the new German Chancellor who has invited Netanyahu, a wanted war criminal, to Germany which is also involved in NATO. He does not mention them and that is the truth of it. The Minister wants to get rid of the triple lock so we can deploy Irish troops to get involved in conflicts headed up by military alliances dominated by the United States, Britain and Germany - people who are every bit potentially, and often in reality, as nasty as the Russians.

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Sitting date: 2025-02-26