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>Ireland to expel Russian diplomat over Salisbury nerve agent attack
Eli Brooks
It seems quite ridiculous, even if Russia did do that attack- which has not been proven- it's a massive overreaction for everyone to suddenly expel all their Russians. Seems to me like someone very powerful is plotting to turn everyone against Russia, especially after that ridiculous tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory about them somehow hacking the US election a year or two ago.
Lucas Rivera
>it's a massive overreaction for everyone to suddenly expel all their Russians
Nobody is expelling all of their Russian diplomats, not even close. The only ones being expelled are those that are believed to be intelligence agents posing as diplomats, which is something that should be done even if the nerve agent attack never took place.
Wyatt Edwards
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Luke Flores
>The only ones being expelled are those that are believed to be intelligence agents posing as diplomats
Do other countries do this or is it just Russia? Do the USA, UK and so on have intelligence agents in Russia?
How did the Irish government know which members of the Russian diplomatic mission in Ireland were intelligence agents? Did the Gardaí investigate it in the last couple of days, did they know beforehand, were they given the names by the UK? s the work of an "intelligence agent" to illegally spy on a nation? If they knew previously, why are they only taking this action now?
I fear if many of the above questions aren't adequately answered by the government (though maybe they have been already?) then it will damage our status as a neutral country. Of course some may say we aren't neutral at all, but I would at least like us to try and remain so, though that perhaps isn't the wish of many within FG (and possibly segments of other parties).
Logan Allen
You tell 'em Vincent.
Chase Ward
People seem to be getting really excited about how much information Google, Facebook, Microsoft and so on store about them.
And by people I mean normies. People have been warning about privacy issues for years but it seems like many didn't bother to listen.
Ethan Rivera
>then it will damage our status as a neutral country.
We're not a neutral country and never had been. That false assumption serves as the basis of your entire post.
More than anything else, the expelling of the diplomat is a token measure to express solidarity with the UK and the EU, which are countries we are aligned with. While some of the questions you raised are indeed very valid, the expulsion of the one diplomat has been done moreso for what it says to the world than for genuine fear that they are an intelligence agent (I too am suspect as to how the government would know that, but it's the justification being given by our government and other governments around the world).
Hudson Watson
>souring relations with the UK even further during Brexit negotiations for something that happened over 40 years ago
Good idea, Vincent.
I'm not saying that the UK shouldn't be held to account for those attacks (they definitely should), but Vincent is ignoring the realpolitik at play here. The UK is our nearest neighbour and a close ally (regardless of what anybody says) whereas Russia is largely irrelevant to Irish interests. We can afford to take a token stand against Russia, but taking a stand against the UK for something that happened 40 years ago doesn't serve Ireland's interests right now. Sometimes it's necessary to be pragmatic on the global stage.