Oh are we doing war in the middle-east, new cold war, trouble in Northern Ireland and Falklands War II this year? Seems like a lot, could we maybe split things up a bit
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AlanJohnson841 day ago
+420
Chernobyl disaster 2 incoming
420
Welshgirlie21 day ago
+294
Incidentally, today was the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
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10July19401 day ago
+45
A drone punched a hole in the shell as wide as an SUV, started a fire inside, firefighters hade to make 28 holes into it to fight the fire.
This from a guy Trump has been openly supporting.
As Trump threatens NATO.
Where is his condemnation of this failed nuclear attack on Europe?
What he supports and what he ignores speaks volumes.
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Kindly_Teach93351 day ago
+2
Openly supporting by attacking all his allies, how does that work exactly, is it some kind of reverse double bluff.
2
10July194012 hr ago
+1
You mean Iran and Venezuela? Yeah let's hope so.
1
dfiner1 day ago
+1
The company responsible for building this said repairs would cost half a BILLION dollars (compared to the 2 they already spent building the thing) and 4-5 years to carry out before they can get back on track decommissioning the reactor. Crazy. Ukraine can’t afford that right now.
1
dikicker1 day ago
+1
It's ok though if we keep speed running the end of the world we're definitely on track to beat the dinosaurs
1
PotatoesWillSaveUs1 day ago
+62
You mean 3. Number 2 was when Russia bombed the NSC last year
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nekonight1 day ago
+24
Thats more like 2.5. 2 was when they dug up the contaminated ground it and ripped out all the monitoring equipment during their occupation.
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Cobs851 day ago
+2
I have a theory that there was something important buried under Chernobyl. Either something incriminating or like Putins childhood teddy bear.
2
AusPower851 day ago
+5
Just his lucky elephants foot
5
IrritableGourmet1 day ago
+27
Already had that. Russia flew a drone into it and lit the containment dome on fire a while back.
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arabidopsis1 day ago
+3
Zaphorihiza is currently an area Ukraine is taking back land in so I wouldn't be surprised if Russia causes a leak
3
Former-Entrance88841 day ago
+3
You say that, but yesterday or the day before we discovered that damage to the containment dome is much more severe than we thought so honestly this may already be underway.
The drone impact ignited parts of the inner shell and damaged the crane planned to be used for deconstruction of the powerplant, so it's now way leakier than thought and the tool we wanted to use to fix the problem is broken.
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Specimen-71 day ago
+12
It’s gonna be bloody good movie and video game material in ten years
12
ZackRaynor1 day ago
+3
Welcome to The 80’s 2
3
fallskjermjeger19 hr ago
+1
The showrunners for Earth:Humanity got an offer to do the next Star Wars trilogy, so they’re trying to wrap this all up and move into their new digs.
1
nonviolent_blackbelt1 day ago
+1
USSR was financing a lot of those conflicts. It's no coincidence NI was resolved once USSR was no longer interested in fanning the flames. I'm not saying this is a Russian financed op, but it's certainly something they are likely to finance.
1
GreyClay2 days ago
+1162
How traumatic for the poor delivery driver!
*The incident took place at about 10:30 p.m. after the attackers stopped a delivery driver, placed an improvised bomb in his vehicle and ordered him to drive to the police station, Singleton said.*
1162
Scrabo2 days ago
+1283
It is called a [Proxy Bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_bomb) and was one of the reasons why the IRA had lost most of their public support by the early 90s.
1283
AlbatrossOwn18321 day ago
+197
I think the most (in)famous example was when the IRA kidnapped the family of Patsy Gillespie and told him his family would be murdered unless he drove a vehicle full of explosives at an army checkpoint, even going so far as strapping him into the vehicle to prevent his escape from the explosion.
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Wind_Yer_Neck_In1 day ago
+10
I remember seeing a satire cartoon from the early 90s that was a load of IRA guys proudly saying that they would have a free Ireland even if they had to kill every person on the island to get it.
10
Maleficent_Owl_70011 day ago
+412
Also the whole killing children thing proved they were monsters. At some point they were political but what with their nutting squads etc. were always absolute bastards.
412
hzhrt151 day ago
+63
Ulster Paramilitary forces killed civilians as well, and they were back by the British government.
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Maleficent_Owl_70011 day ago
+52
Loyalist paramilitaries killing civilians is indefensible, agreed. But 'backed by the British government' is an oversimplification.
What the evidence shows is collusion - rogue elements in the RUC and military intelligence sharing information with loyalist groups. The Stevens Inquiries documented this and it was genuinely criminal.
But rogue collusion is not the same as official government policy. Conflating the two actually makes it harder to hold the real culprits accountable.
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hzhrt151 day ago
+47
Rouge collusion is an oversimplification as well. This wasn’t one or two members of the military or intelligence services. It’s many more than that often with the knowledge of their direct superiors.
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Maleficent_Owl_70011 day ago
+8
Are you even from the UK or Ireland? Because this feels like armchair analysis from someone with no personal connection to any of it.
There is no evidence elected government officials ever directed loyalist violence. And regardless, that history has nothing to do with the New IRA using innocent delivery drivers to plant bombs near homes and children in 2026.
The whataboutism doesn't excuse it. They are criminals, loyalist and republican alike, and it is depressing to see these thugs back at it again.
8
Whool911 day ago
+25
I agree that the new ira are wankers, but high ranking British intelligence and military officials absolutely directed some of the worst atrocities of the troubles, and actively conspired to cover up involvement of British security forces too, in things like bloody Sunday, ballymurphy, Dublin and Monaghan bombings, glennane gang, etc. The British government weren't necessarily actively planning and directing such things, but they didn't try particularly hard to stop it either
25
itsbuchy1 day ago
-21
Dude shut up both suck, stop trying to mitigate and argue. Try using empathy instead of well actually's.
-21
Whool911 day ago
+13
I agree both suck, when did I ever defend the IRA? I was calling out the person who was writing like the RUC were some noble police force and not an active participant in the troubles themselves. Maybe you should try some empathy and reading comprehension
13
Peaceful__Prober1 day ago
-5
Personal connection is now required? I'd instead argue that personal connection makes you biased and thus unable to see the faults in the side you support, while seeing nothing but flaws in the side you oppose
-5
Maleficent_Owl_70011 day ago
-1
Can you fix Iran before getting involved elsewhere. Seriously do Americans learn to keep their hands to themselves?
-1
Peaceful__Prober1 day ago
-1
Why do you assume that I'm American? Oh wait yeah, your original comment tells me that you lack brainpower
-1
Searbhreathach1 day ago
-26
You mean the nutting squad ran by British intelligence?
-26
Maleficent_Owl_70011 day ago
+19
They were run by the IRA Internal Security Unit. But before I waste my time, are you American (born in America etc). Because if you are y ou are wasting everyone's time pushing in on things that do not concern you.
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Searbhreathach1 day ago
+2
I live in belfast rofl the leader of the ira internal security unit was Freddie scappaticci code named stake knife from 1978 for 25 years brutish intelligence ran him and used him to kill innocent people and even other lower level british agents to keep his cover story intact
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Maleficent_Owl_70011 day ago
+2
ISU was killing people well before stake knife.
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Searbhreathach1 day ago
+2
Established in the late 70s and stake knife in charge from 1978
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garmander5723 hr ago
+1
Dog, Americans barely know anything about the Troubles and couldn’t care less about the whole situation. Source: am American
1
Zubzer01 day ago
+2
Wow, how to be so confidently wrong hahaha
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Searbhreathach1 day ago
Downvoted by a bunch of yanks lol
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Zubzer01 day ago
+3
Downvoted because you are wildly wrong haha. The nutting squads were IRA
3
Searbhreathach1 day ago
+3
And the leader was a British agent
3
windflail2 days ago
+84
Exactly the same as the one in Lurgan a couple of weeks ago
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Lulusgirl2 days ago
+53
Two in just a couple of weeks? Is this common or uncommon? Forgive me, I don't know much but aim trying to learn.
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WongUnglow2 days ago
+83
Uncommon in recent times. There's been incidences since 1998, but they've been largely isolated and few and far between. So two, in a short period, is concerning.
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Zenmachine832 days ago
+27
What is going on then? Infighting within the remnants of the IRA? Because my understanding is that Sinn Fein has lots of political representation these days.
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WongUnglow2 days ago
+70
I don't really know to be honest. I'm British but I've since emigrated so don't keep up with too much domestic news, or in contact with family members who live in Belfast.
Will say though (in my opinion) that the IRA of the past isn't really a thing. This new IRA are just a bunch of rogue degenerate drug dealer/gangsters looking to energise disenfranchised youth. They aren't the disciplined hardliners of the past.
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windflail1 day ago
+23
Yea, it's a rare thing to happen now, was very surprising when it happened in Lurgan, same as now. No real obvious political trigger for it to happen either.
But the new IRA are just a handful of nutjobs with basically no support, and it wouldn't take many nutjobs to pull off something like this.
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kaisadilla_0x11 day ago
+1
Won't be surprised if we find out it was Russia or even the US the ones promoting these attacks.
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windflail1 day ago
+2
Naw it won't be, it's just a few nutjobs from here, possibly with a British agent or two amongst them as is tradition. Perhaps they're all undercover British agents all trying to convince each other that they aren't.
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cnaughton8982 days ago
+9
No, at most you get bomb scare threats but rarely do you see actual bombs.
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Boatster_McBoat2 days ago
+164
Is the driver ok? Nothing about them in the article that I can see
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GreyClay2 days ago
+263
Physically unharmed, but you would have to imagine psychologically scarred.
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Boatster_McBoat2 days ago
+28
Thanks for the update
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cyberianscribe2 days ago
+42
No injuries or fatalities. The BBC has more detailed coverage.
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-staccato-1 day ago
+2
What's stopping the driver from leaving the vehicle after driving down the road?
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GreyClay1 day ago
+5
The two men watching him carefully, with a detonator in their hands. In previous incidents like this the terrorists have followed behind in a car of their own, and the message is given to the victim, follow the instructions exactly or risk being blown to pieces.
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bendubberley_2 days ago
+318
> LONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland have condemned a car-bomb attack on a police station as an attempt to undermine the 1998 agreement that brought peace to the region.
> The bomb, fashioned from a compressed gas cylinder, exploded as police were evacuating nearby residents in Dunmurry, on the outskirts of Belfast, on Saturday night, Deputy Chief Constable Bobby Singleton told reporters on Sunday.
> “This clearly demonstrates that what this type of device may have lacked in terms of its sophistication and scale, it more than made up for in its reckless unpredictability,” Singleton said. “For a device like this to have been deployed against police and in such proximity to the public was idiotic. It was absolute madness.”
> The incident took place at about 10:30 p.m. after the attackers stopped a delivery driver, placed an improvised bomb in his vehicle and ordered him to drive to the police station, Singleton said.
> Brendan Mullan, chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, said the device “was sent to kill officers and cause maximum harm in an attack which was in the heart of a residential area.”
> “The people have spoken when they overwhelmingly endorsed the Good Friday Agreement” in 1998, Mullan said.
> “Such acts of violence have no place in a society committed to peace. We stand united in condemnation of those responsible for this terror, and in voicing support for the work of the officers and staff of the PSNI.”
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Gentle_Snail2 days ago
+427
The New IRA try to present themselves as vigilantes and freedom fighters but they are just insane drug dealers who f*** over both Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Patrick27012 days ago
+148
The new IRA is basically abunch drug dealers that are tempting young people from lower economic background in north. I have been to Northern Ireland, they have not seen the success of Republic of Ireland
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SkyNetHatesUsAll2 days ago
+81
Probably sponsored by Puttin/Russian mobs .
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totallyRebb2 days ago
+71
If there is shit being stirred in the world for no good reason, chances are high Russia is involved somehow.
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chicknsnotavegetabl1 day ago
+7
Or someone else currently trying to stir up the Brits. Here and via the falklands over his war pettiness.
FIFA peace prize material right here
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totallyRebb2 days ago
+59
Wonder if they happen to have any ties to Russia.
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artful_codger2 days ago
+83
They do, yes.
[https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/soviet-flags-not-in-derrys-name-amid-war-in-ukraine/a/112238775.html](https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/soviet-flags-not-in-derrys-name-amid-war-in-ukraine/a/112238775.html)
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mhornberger2 days ago
+52
They also have historical links to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The PLO even gave them arms at one point, rocket launchers and whatnot.
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artful_codger1 day ago
+39
The IRA also trained Colombian Narco-terrorists (FARC) when they were supposed to be 'retired' from terrorism. They showed FARC how to make home made mortar bombs. Which they used to massacre people [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojay%C3%A1\_massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojay%C3%A1_massacre)
The IRA were caught in the jungle of Colombia at the time...
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia\_Three](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia_Three)
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staybehind232 days ago
+23
You can always count on Russia making the world a little bit shittier.
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winksoutloud2 days ago
+6
Are we really still doing this shit?
6
StephenHunterUK2 days ago
+415
I've been to Belfast and their police stations are built like fortresses. The "peelers" carry firearms routinely, unlike in Great Britain.
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Gentle_Snail2 days ago
+206
When there are nutters like this I can see why.
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StephenHunterUK2 days ago
+124
The Royal Ulster Constabulary, the predecessor to the PSNI, had 319 officers killed during the Troubles and 9,000 injured. Looking under your car in the morning in case someone had put a bomb under it became routine practice.
There have only three bodies collectively awarded the George Cross, our highest civilian gallantry award. The island of Malta, the RUC and the NHS.
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red_door_122 days ago
+151
For balance, they were also an almost wholly Protestant police force that the rest is history would describe as robust in their treatment of catholics and funnelled arms and probably members into loyalist paramilitary groups.
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Tressemy2 days ago
+46
I love your use of the term "robust".
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artful_codger2 days ago
+43
For balance lol.
They were a wholly Protestant police force because the IRA threatened to murder (and did murder) any Catholics who joined.
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Zenmachine832 days ago
+70
Jesus we have to re-hash the conflict along partisan lines in this comment thread? Instead of trying to paint one side as ruthless thugs and the other as innocent protectors of peace maybe we just all realize both sides of the conflict engaged in shitty behavior that continued the cycle of violence.
The conflict only turned violent after peacefully protesting Catholics were gunned down on Bloody Sunday. The IRA engaged in terrorist operations against the UK government and later civilian targets. The UK government/RUC/paramilitary groups engaged in extrajudicial abduction and execution of people they associated with the IRA. The cycle of grievance, believing one's own group to be the victim, and the inability to see the conflict from the other group's perspective is why sectarian conflicts are so long lived and deadly once they get rolling.
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ElCuntIngles1 day ago
+51
While I agree with almost everything you wrote, it's not true to say that the conflict only turned violent after Bloody Sunday.
The IRA killed 30 British soldiers in 1971. Bloody Sunday was in 1972 and by then about 200 people had already been killed by paramilitaries on both sides.
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Zenmachine831 day ago
+5
Yes. You are correct. I went and looked at a timeline to confirm. I would restate the importance of Bloody Sunday, IMO that day was proof to NI Catholics that resistance through peaceful means was not feasible. The government of NI/UK refused to allow Catholics in NI to have full political rights which was not a tenable situation.
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kaisadilla_0x11 day ago
+7
Oh, the classical "I am the voice of the people. If anyone disagrees, raise your hand so we can murder you".
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Whool911 day ago
+4
They were a wholly Protestant police force because they were a paramilitary organisation who worked to maintain a Protestant state for a Protestant people and actively attacked peaceful civil rights marchers in the late 60's that directly led to the troubles. The RUC were not some noble police force, they were sectarian scum
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PolyUre2 days ago
-3
Did the IRA also force them to funnel arms to the loyalist groups?
-3
artful_codger2 days ago
+13
Gardai colluded with the IRA too. As did Irish TD's.
Isn't it interesting that we're in a thread about terrorists forcing people to be human bombs. Ever heard of Patsy Gillespie? The poor oppressed IRA were forcing people to be proxy bombs decades ago.
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bortcorp2 days ago
+4
That's not the answer to the question he asked you.
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PropJoesChair1 day ago
+25
You can't mention anything about northern ireland, the troubles or the IRA without it turning in to a "he who cast the first stone" d*** wave. It's pissing in the wind, there's no new ground to cover. nobody involved in the troubles are good people, and it could be an absolutely endless story of "yeah but x did y first". end of story.
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bortcorp1 day ago
+2
That was exactly my point. They are engaging in whataboutism instead of answering each others questions.
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PolyUre1 day ago
-3
> Gardai colluded with the IRA too.
Just answer the question.
-3
OceanRacoon1 day ago
-3
Yeah, that often happens to occupying police forces that oppress and brutalise the indigenous population
-3
Patrick27012 days ago
+58
Yes, it’s the weirdest place. I have ever been, there is peace in Northern Ireland but still this feeling like a single match can set a wildfire of violence.
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StephenHunterUK2 days ago
+36
The sectarian stuff isn't at all visible in the tourist areas; you have to go look for it.
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Patrick27012 days ago
+18
It is, I remember when I did black taxi tour in Belfast. They said in Protestant section that they found a bomb, few days before we arrived in Belfast.
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red_door_122 days ago
+54
Going on a black taxi tour is the definition of going looking for it to be fair
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TusShona2 days ago
+20
Yeah black taxi tours get off on showing the more harrowing side in order to fear monger tourists into thinking "wow, I had no idea it was still like this". They quite literally show the bad parts for nothing other than a reaction.
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arabidopsis1 day ago
+1
It's a lot better than the 90s when I would be woken up at night by helicopters or riot trucks racing down the road with the cheese wire cutters deployed.
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thisisallme1 day ago
+1
I lived in Belfast for a couple years, that and the very fortified police vans were interesting
1
sthlmsoul2 days ago
+113
Has anybody taken responsibility yet? During the troubles various groups were oftentimes rather quick to get attribution.
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GreyClay2 days ago
+104
From the BBC:
*He said that there were "very many similarities" with an incident last month at Lurgan police station in County Armagh, and that the PSNI's "early working hypothesis is that this may well be the work of the New IRA who claimed responsibility for the attack in Lurgan".*
[BBC:](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp846668401o)
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whennaminggoeswrong2 days ago
-39
My bet is on russians trying to stir shit up as usual, not IRA.
Edit: it has happened before: https://spyscape.com/article/ireland-and-the-kgb-an-unexpected-alliance
-39
Skippymabob2 days ago
+27
The Russians do enough shit we can talk about without having to blame them for everything
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The_Artist_Who_Mines1 day ago
+21
Well the new ira have known links to russia so...
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Ich_Liegen1 day ago
+7
They are still capable of being assigned blame for their own actions regardless of who they are linked to. Nobody blames Gaddafi for the Troubles even though he was arming the IRA.
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The_Artist_Who_Mines1 day ago
+4
If Russia have decided to open a new front in their war on Europe by releasing a stream of funding and supplies to groups like the new IRA, I think that puts them in the picture quite acutely.
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OkCoconut32702 days ago
+240
What the f*** kinda troglodytes are still at this shit?
What is it they're looking to achieve here? Undo the GFA and go back to "the good old days"?
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ThisismeCody2 days ago
+81
Generational trauma. Sons only knowing the bullshit their fathers tell them.
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mhornberger2 days ago
+44
There's also probably some social and family pressure to "never forget" about an uncle or whoever who was hurt/killed back whenever. So even if you want to move on, you'll be shamed for being seen to let things go.
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Ambustion1 day ago
+19
Pretty good reminder why indiscriminately killing civilians in a conflict is a short cut to creating more terrorism.
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mhornberger1 day ago
+16
That probably works for both sides. Which is why it is so hard to break cycles of violence. There has to be a willingness to forget on both sides. Nursing old grievances forever, even if they are reasonable or just, doesn't necessarily lead to justice.
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kaisadilla_0x11 day ago
+1
And pretty good explanation of why Israel and Hamas do it (and many others). They need the enemy to be real to retain support from their people for their holy wars.
1
arabidopsis1 day ago
+1
DUP wanted to scrap the GFA and one reason they supported Brexit
1
darkmatter3432 days ago
+20
Great, more troubles
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azcat922 days ago
+70
In a world going to shit the last thing we need is to start up “the troubles” again. For Christ’s sake can we have one place be calm?
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slaveofficer1 day ago
+12
Could these d*** heads f****** not, please?
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cowboysted2 days ago
+65
That this happened a day after the Sinn Fein Ard Feis. That doesn't seem like a coincidence. It smells like an anti-SF dissident "show of strength".
Edit, day of the Ard Feis actually.
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Zenmachine832 days ago
+15
So you think this is some splinter IRA faction sowing discord?
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cowboysted2 days ago
+24
That makes it sound very organised and methodical but essentially yes. There used to be dozens of dissident Republican groups who would compete for attention.
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kayoz2 days ago
+9
Any dissident action quite literally slows unification. The sooner that all of the republicans focus on NI and not on Anti-Britishism, that's when they'll have won. Unification would be around the corner from that.
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Boudica45532 days ago
+20
I actually heard it from where i live and i live nearly 2 miles from it, albeit i just thought a neighbour had slammed the door really loudly until i saw the news in the morning.
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B1ueRogue1 day ago
+6
Are we really doing this again ?
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Rhoeri1 day ago
+5
This again??
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EnhancedWithAi1 day ago
+5
What year is it?
Humans just f****** get a long it's REALLY NOT HARD.
5
AcanthocephalaDue7152 days ago
+17
I see the IRA is back at it
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Trevor5191 day ago
+8
Ira starting up again?
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Halcyon-Ember1 day ago
+2
Ah lads, not again
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api-services2 days ago
+7
[Zombie](https://youtu.be/6Ejga4kJUts).
Edited to add link.
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Personal_Director4411 day ago
+1
guessing that some white powdery product was coming in to Belfast and a suitable distraction was needed.
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Regular_Print_76501 day ago
+1
Classic IRA "give us what we want or we will murder your children" and still idiots (usually americans) screech about how they're the good guys
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SoUpInYa1 day ago
+1
This shit again??:
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zzdis23 hr ago
+1
Born at the right time for every war, les gooooooooooooo
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remiieddit2 days ago
-17
I would bet on Russia , they like to stir things up
-17
Invisible7hunder2 days ago
+9
I think someone would have actually gotten hurt if it there was much Russian involvement. Not saying this kinda shit isn't something Russia would do, but it doesn't feel like they have much involvement to me.
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kayoz2 days ago
+9
Iget the impression that they like to pay dissenters and encourage anti establishment acts.
This would certainly count.
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WongUnglow2 days ago
+7
I think they meant funding these rogue elements just to stir up any domestic trouble where possible. Wouldn't surprise me if they do energise them.
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Mewhomewhy2 days ago
-16
Is that the Irish up to no good again?
-16
Post_office_clerk011 day ago
-6
Not this again…. Ole Danny boy
-6
blow_on_my_trombone2 days ago
-28
If the Northern Irish go at it again we (the uk) should just leave them to it. Most people in the uk don't care what happens to Northern Ireland, they are a headache that we could do without.
-28
TusShona2 days ago
+19
That has always been the goal of the IRA in past iterations. They phoned in bombs because killing civilians wasn't the objective (although they didn't care if they did) their main objective was to cause massive amounts of damage for the UK taxpayers. That's why the Manchester bombing happened, that's why they bombed canary wharf etc. The goal was always to be a thorn in the UKs side. Cause damage that the government has to pay to fix using taxpayer's money, UK citizens tax goes up as a result, the population of the rest of the UK develop a mindset of "FFS why are we stuck paying for their mess. This isn't our problem, just let them go." Obviously this isn't the Provisional IRA, but the tactics are similar.
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cnaughton8982 days ago
+13
This was the mindset the British government had in the 60s and they didn't intervene until it was far too late to salvage the situation.
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Elegant_Individual461 day ago
+3
The Irish govt even planned a potential, very unlikely armed intervention because RUC inaction against anti-civil rights violence was causing fears of ethnic cleansing
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cnaughton8981 day ago
+10
People forget it now but refugee camps were being setup across the border because there were massive numbers of Catholics being displaced and that the sending in of British troops was welcomed by Catholics and opposed by lots of protestants.
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Elegant_Individual461 day ago
+1
Yeah it got way more complicated *fast*, but they were initially sent to actually protect communities in fall 1969.
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CommonBasilisk1 day ago
You never cared. That's why people were treated like scum by your government and military.
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blow_on_my_trombone1 day ago
-3
Clearly we did care them because otherwise we wouldn't have bothered sending troops. What I mean is we should just stay out of it completely.
-3
CommonBasilisk1 day ago
+2
You sent battled hardened war veterans to Northern Ireland.
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Gibby_Jabby1 day ago
-27
Get your Brits out!
-27
This_Charmless_Man1 day ago
+8
Oh f*** off with this
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yukoncowbear471 day ago
-7
I know the far right propaganda bots have invaded Irish politics to stop SF from gaining power in the republic and to split support off of them from being too left wing.
Wonder if this is part of that.
-7
aqa51 day ago
-16
When the violence causes silence
We must be mistaken
It's the same old theme, since 1916
In your head, in your head, they're still fightin'
-16
shitposts_over_90002 days ago
-70
I mean, that situation for many was an armistice at best, hasn't progressed in decades, and the UK is the weakest it has been in centuries...
This should not be much of a surprise to anyone.
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