Quote ="Cronus"I won't even go into why the Republicans surrendered with a pathetic whimper and chose the diplomatic path '"
So, British Troops are off the streets, you released IRA killers and you still don't have a clue where the semtex and Guns are? Yeah...some surrender
Quote ="Cronus" why is NI still firmly part of the UK?'"
Because without the racist protestants that you put there 400 years ago, the Tories and Brexit would be done.....over,,,,,finished.
Quote ="Cronus"Christ if the IRA or one of their offshoots couldn't win back in the day, they haven't a prayer in the age of 24/7 deep surveillance/intelligence. '"
They beat the British Army and the Protestant paras, helped by the British Army and the RUC........the RUC who aren't even Royal anymore......but we didn't win
Quote ="Cronus"There's a reason the phrase 'paddy factor' was a thing. Omagh ain't the Wild West anymore, your cannon fodder are in for short careers.
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That's what Cromwell thought......and Churchill and a host of other political heavyweights......Thatcher pooped her pants after Brighton and it was all downhill and knuckledragger tactics thereafter.....sledgehammer to crack the nut but you lot kept missing the nut until the Americans stepped in and saved you from yourselves.
British Army collusion with the UDA/UVF is now a fact of record BTW.......so if there is a next time, expect Blue Helmets on the ground......because British government attempts at genocide in Ireland are now well documented....and the EU will have the UN in like flynn.