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Post by Ripley on Apr 6, 2023 15:49:49 GMT
What a lot of old cobblers. Of course he is physically and mentally able. President Biden has made eleven foreign trips to 18 countries in two years. He was recently in Ukraine. He will be going to Ireland this week to celebrate the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. As far as Northern Ireland is concerned all the US ever did was openly support the IRA. Had it not been for the hundreds of thousands of NORAID dollars that made it's way into IRA coffers the terrorists ability to operate would have been greatly reduced. A mystery? Really? Have a read at this: www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-united-kingdom/Here's a brief excerpt: The United States supports the peace process and devolved political institutions in Northern Ireland and encourages the implementation of the U.S.-brokered 1998 Belfast Agreement, also known as the Good Friday Agreement. The International Fund for Ireland (IFI), established by the British and Irish governments in 1986, provides funding for projects to sustain the peace process and to generate cross-community engagement and economic opportunity in Northern Ireland (the United Kingdom) and the border counties of Ireland. The U.S. government has contributed more than $549 million to the IFI since its establishment. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 6, 2023 15:55:12 GMT
And yet for the entirety of Op Banner (1969 - 2007) the US government allowed NORAID to openly fund raise in aid of the IRA.
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Post by johnofgwent on Apr 6, 2023 18:18:29 GMT
What a lot of old cobblers. Of course he is physically and mentally able. President Biden has made eleven foreign trips to 18 countries in two years. He was recently in Ukraine. He will be going to Ireland this week to celebrate the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. My bet is Biden has never attended any previous anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. but if you are right - and i have no idea if he has or has not - i suspect his appearance now is more to do with his need to curry favour with the Irish American and / or pro irish republican voter. |
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Post by Ripley on Apr 6, 2023 18:25:04 GMT
My bet is Biden has never attended any previous anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. but if you are right - and i have no idea if he has or has not - i suspect his appearance now is more to do with his need to curry favour with the Irish American and / or pro irish republican voter. You don't think Biden's trip to Ireland could have something to do with the fact that the US brokered the Belfast Agreement, and Biden, who is of Irish descent, has a genuine interest in preserving the peace there |
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Post by johnofgwent on Apr 6, 2023 18:38:47 GMT
but if you are right - and i have no idea if he has or has not - i suspect his appearance now is more to do with his need to curry favour with the Irish American and / or pro irish republican voter. You don't think Biden's trip to Ireland could have something to do with the fact that the US brokered the Belfast Agreement, and Biden, who is of Irish descent, has a genuine interest in preserving the peace there No, i don’t think that. I think as i said, every president as far back as i can recall cultivated ‘irish roots’ to sway the american irish vote. |
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Post by Ripley on Apr 6, 2023 18:41:54 GMT
You don't think Biden's trip to Ireland could have something to do with the fact that the US brokered the Belfast Agreement, and Biden, who is of Irish descent, has a genuine interest in preserving the peace there No, i don’t think that. I think as i said, every president as far back as i can recall cultivated ‘irish roots’ to sway the american irish vote. But he does actually have Irish roots. He visited his Irish family in 2016. He isn't just pretending an affiliation for Ireland so as to win votes. Apparently he has made public that he is Irish throughout his whole career. www.insider.com/joe-biden-irish-heritage-quotes-2021-3 |
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Post by thescotsman on Apr 6, 2023 18:58:21 GMT
And yet for the entirety of Op Banner (1969 - 2007) the US government allowed NORAID to openly fund raise in aid of the IRA. yeah...but the FBI did a bloody good job keeping their counterparts in the UK up to date on who from NI was in the US, what they were doing, where they were doing it and whom they were meeting....and more importantly when and where the arms shipments were going from and to....was a sting op....give them enough rope as it were.... |
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 6, 2023 19:12:08 GMT
And yet for the entirety of Op Banner (1969 - 2007) the US government allowed NORAID to openly fund raise in aid of the IRA. yeah...but the FBI did a bloody good job keeping their counterparts in the UK up to date on who from NI was in the US, what they were doing, where they were doing it and whom they were meeting....and more importantly when and where the arms shipments were going from and to....was a sting op....give them enough rope as it were.... Doesn't alter the fact that NORAID openly fund raised for the IRA. Sleepy Joe would do well to remember that when he sneers at the UK. |
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Post by Fairsociety on Apr 6, 2023 19:17:28 GMT
yeah...but the FBI did a bloody good job keeping their counterparts in the UK up to date on who from NI was in the US, what they were doing, where they were doing it and whom they were meeting....and more importantly when and where the arms shipments were going from and to....was a sting op....give them enough rope as it were.... Doesn't alter the fact that NORAID openly fund raised for the IRA. Which also included McDonald's |
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 6, 2023 19:25:37 GMT
Doesn't alter the fact that NORAID openly fund raised for the IRA. Which also included McDonald's I dunno about that FS, yes I've heard it before but I don't know. Lots of people/organisations were said to have donated to the IRA, most of them didn't. |
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Post by thescotsman on Apr 6, 2023 19:29:56 GMT
yeah...but the FBI did a bloody good job keeping their counterparts in the UK up to date on who from NI was in the US, what they were doing, where they were doing it and whom they were meeting....and more importantly when and where the arms shipments were going from and to....was a sting op....give them enough rope as it were.... Doesn't alter the fact that NORAID openly fund raised for the IRA. Sleepy Joe would do well to remember that when he sneers at the UK. meh...who cares...it was well worth the trade off...since we knew what was going on it stopped a bunch of Micks being karked anyway.....pretty sure Bidden and Charlie are up to speed on this...big picture....it isn't a big deal as the UK/US are still major mates.
Fucking Micks didn't make too much out of it...and what they did they spent mostly on Gaddafi's sandy castle BnB training camps (which we kept tabs on) and a bunch of very shady Romanian and Bulgarian arms dealers supplying them which crap Marakovs and rusty AKs....
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Post by Fairsociety on Apr 6, 2023 19:31:16 GMT
Which also included McDonald's I dunno about that FS, yes I've heard it before but I don't know. Lots of people/organisations were said to have donated to the IRA, most of them didn't. I think it was more than a rumour, apparently Gerry Adams was forever in America meeting up with the McDonald's 'bosses'. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 6, 2023 19:45:34 GMT
Doesn't alter the fact that NORAID openly fund raised for the IRA. Sleepy Joe would do well to remember that when he sneers at the UK. meh...who cares...it was well worth the trade off...since we knew what was going on it stopped a bunch of Micks being karked anyway.....pretty sure Bidden and Charlie are up to speed on this...big picture....it isn't a big deal as the UK/US are still major mates.
Fucking Micks didn't make too much out of it...and what they did they spent mostly on Gaddafi's sandy castle BnB training camps (which we kept tabs on) and a bunch of very shady Romanian and Bulgarian arms dealers supplying them which crap Marakovs and rusty AKs....
We knew what was going on? No we didn't. Intelligence gathering on the ground knowing who the players were and what they were up to in Ulster was one thing. But we didn't know about well hidden IRA cells in Holland who were responsible for car bombs/shootings in Germany and Belgium, and Hyde Park & Brighton came as a bit of a surprise I can tell you. |
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Post by jonksy on Apr 6, 2023 19:46:30 GMT
yeah...but the FBI did a bloody good job keeping their counterparts in the UK up to date on who from NI was in the US, what they were doing, where they were doing it and whom they were meeting....and more importantly when and where the arms shipments were going from and to....was a sting op....give them enough rope as it were.... Doesn't alter the fact that NORAID openly fund raised for the IRA. Sleepy Joe would do well to remember that when he sneers at the UK. Changing tact a bit. The dribbling old fart now has accused Trump of his very own fuck up over Afghanistan........Clearly someone wrote this for him, he wouldn't have remembered trump was president before him all by himself..........I suppose Trump is also to blame for Bidens dementia.......FFS
Biden administration blames TRUMP for disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal: New White House report says President was 'severely constrained by is predecessor' and slams his talks with the Taliban
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 6, 2023 19:50:40 GMT
Doesn't alter the fact that NORAID openly fund raised for the IRA. Sleepy Joe would do well to remember that when he sneers at the UK. Changing tact a bit. The dribbling old fart now has accused Trump of his very own fuck up over Afghanistan........Clearly someone wrote this for him, he wouldn't have remembered trump was president before him all by himself..........I suppose Trump is also to blame for Bidens dementia.......FFS
Biden administration blames TRUMP for disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal: New White House report says President was 'severely constrained by is predecessor' and slams his talks with the Taliban
I'm not Trumps biggest fan, but Biden is a bumbling fool, a geriatric disgrace who occasionally gets his lines right. |
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