Il Presidente condanna la Nato e l’aumento della spesa militare globale quando il numero delle persone colpite dalla fame è aumentato di 200 milioni
https://www.irishtimes.com/science/2025/01/08/president-condemns-nato-and-escalating-global-military-spending-when-number-affected-by-hunger-has-risen-by-200-million/
di ShotDentist8872
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The irony of course is that Ireland spends nothing on defence because we are effectively shielded by our former colonial overlord and NATO member.
As Orwell said “those who abjure violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf”
Wonder how this moralising would go down in Poland, Finland or the Baltic states…
I like him, but NATO needs to spend more in the face of Russian aggression.
This is gonna be unpopular with the south dublin newstalk dads
Easy for him to say when the Russian military isn’t intent on murdering Irish civilians.
Yawn
Our President would not be saying this hippy shit if we were bordered with Russia. We can afford to live with our heads in the sand with so many countries in the way between ourselves and the threat of invasion. Our politicians just don’t live in the real world at all
This stuff is so easy to say.
Honestly I think Michael is setting a really bad precedent as president. You can’t really complain about our next president making inflammatory political statements you don’t like when this lad’s gotten away with doing it so often.
Using the Young Scientist exhibition to make a speech against NATO is bonkers.
Isn’t he the president of the country with the highest GDP per capita in Europe?
If he cares so much about world hunger, why not impose some taxes on corporations? You could use that money to feed like 6 African countries in perpetuity.
I’m a huge fan of Michael D. He’s class and a genuinely nice guy.
But it’s bit off to not even mention Russia but criticise NATO for increasing spending when it was weakening and “brain dead” according to Macron, before Russia began annexing other countries in Europe.
He’s dead right about Gaza though. It’s disgraceful that the West is still supporting Israel in it’s genocide.
Unconstrained global greed and stupidity is more responsible for hunger than protecting Europe. Feeding poor people is dirt cheap compared to fielding a military. Couch change by comparison, so it’s not as if military spending vs food is a zero sum game. Russia is an existential threat. Ireland needs to get a whole lot more serious about today’s reality of defense spending.
What a fucking clown.
Full bellies aren’t worth shit if you’re dead.
Michael D right once again. Despite all the macho chest beating, sabre rattling and military fandom that often takes place on here, the drive for an Irish Republic was so that no 16 year old Irish young lad would have his guts ripped out, or would rip out the guts of another 16 year old, on an unknown European battlefield. Keeping out of foreign wars is a raison d’être of an Irish State.
If only ireland had 14billion excess tax that could be used for homeless and hungry
Easy to say when not in NATO yet enjoying all it’s protections
NATO needs to spend more. Russia is being aggressive, the US is retrenching.
It’s common sense.
The president is an old school leftist. Which is why he’s not going to be popular with the modern centre left and its pro NATO stance.
MAGA trump, musk, putin, xi all hate nato because they are pro imperialism and nato stops them just rolling over neighbours.
Trump and musk appears to be russias fifth column
Trump threatening to annex who today?
> Military expenditure globally had increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2023 to $2.44 trillion, the highest ever recorded; “at the same time, the number of people affected by hunger has risen by 200 million globally”.
Incredibly disingenuous.
NATO countries military spending is way down when adjusted for inflation. hardly anyone is spending 2% as agreed
the percentage of people in poverty is at the lowest level due to globalisation
A few months ago I still would have vehemently opposed any EU military grouping. The EU is and should be a partnership of nations to strengthen economic and cultural ties that unite us but maintain our own individual national identities. But with the carry on over the water in America and the rhetoric coming out in the last few weeks….. maybe that’s the plan?
Pump up the rhetoric and talk about Europe like this to turn them away from nato and turn The US back to pre ww2 isolationism like that tangerine lump of shite wants. Turn nato into a toothless beast.
For those who don’t know, NATO – the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – is a military alliance set up during the Cold War as a counter against the aggression and exapanionism of the Soviet Union, and, after the fall of the USSR, of Russia.
Now, if we all think very, *very* carefully, we might be able to think of a reason why NATO spending has gone up in the last few years. Since, oh, I don’t know, February 2022.
Nice, so in the face of aggression we should just do what? We can of course feed 200 million people day after day and week after week to what aim and allow the true global villains China and Russia to take what its dictators want. Mr President, this is not worthy of you.
We need to have a grown up national debate on joining NATO in my opinion.
Why do we think we’re special and not subject to the same threats that forced the Swedes and Finns to join?
I suggest he travels to some border towns in Sweden, Estonia, and Lithuania etc, and tell them the same thing. See what they make of that sentiment.
Especially as we freeload off of NATO forces
Ah yeah , Putin wouldn’t be having the children starving.
How about we deal with the 15k homeless we have here first
Maith se. Tá sé ceart. Ní mór dúinn ár bhfórsaí cosanta a neartú, ach ba cheart go gcaithfí le NATO i gcónaí le hamhras.