Govt per concludere un sostegno alle missioni di mantenimento della pace – Harris
http://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0302/1499768-triple-lock/
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Govt per concludere un sostegno alle missioni di mantenimento della pace – Harris
http://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0302/1499768-triple-lock/
di nitro1234561
8 commenti
Needed change. 5 UNSC members having a vote on what we can and can’t do with our military and what peacekeeping missions we can participate in was a fantastic arrangement
Was a useless part of the triple lock always
Good. It’s pathetic that as a sovereign state Ireland needs to ask Russia and the USA pretty please before they can deploy their own soldiers.
Good. It was shambolic that in effect Putin, Trump and Xi had a veto over a key element of Irish foreign policy and our own president didn’t. I’m not saying our president should have a veto but definitely foreign dictators should not.
As per Gavan Reilly:
> Current system: any deployment of over 12 members needs Dáil, Govt and UN approval
> New system: deployment over 50 members needs Dáil and Govt approval and be in keeping with UN charter
The UN existed as a good-faith-assumed solution to international politics that only worked at all as long as you didn’t look to hard.
There is no longer even the pretense of good faith. The US and Russia are now openly colluding to strip Ukraine of her sovereign rights, rights they were both treaty bound to defend.
The nuclear proliferation treaty was supposed to halt the doomsday clock. We are closer to doomsday than we have ever been.
Climate change, which US and Russian bot farms have done a really good job on casting doubt on, ensures that in living time there will be foot scarcity on an unprecedented level.
Why we would trust the US and Russia to allow us decide what a peacekeeping mission is is beyond me. Especialy now that the US is threatening to withdraw from NATO
We should basically be going all in on the EU because otherwise we’re fucked.
Interesting strategy to stop referring it to as the triple lock.
Triple lock is a bit mad in this current moment. Particularly given the make-up of the permanent Security Council, specifically the Russians, but not in any way limited to them. China and US no great shakes either. In the past it was an honest attempt to act only where there was consensus among the armed and dangerous warlords of the world. But the world’s changed and the warlords are not the better for the change.
This is good, but it is going to be a bitter little pill to swallow eventually.
As a country we are very risk averse when it comes to any use of force in any context. We don’t have a strong military culture, we don’t have big national memorial events for war dead, or an entertainment subgenre which leans heavily on military themes.
And the triple lock has for a long time allowed us to maintain this sense of a peaceful, non-militaristic nation. We are proud of our peacekeepers and the job they do, but we know we’re not sending them into places where there are any specific hostile troops.
The removal of the UNSC veto will eventually result in the deployment of troops into more hostile regions, and more deaths of Irish troops than we are used to.
I just hope when that happens, that we choose to honour those who made the choice to join up and defend peace, rather than tearing our government apart for “letting” it happen.