Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAmerica’s Far Right Is Calling for Civil War in Irelandwww.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1205arrow-down18
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minus-squareMindSkipperBro12@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down5·1 year agoSince Ireland still hasn’t gotten Northern Ireland back, they’re basically still in a civil war.
minus-squareblargerer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s a weird way to frame things given that a sizable majority of North Irelanders don’t want to reunify.
minus-squareminnow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoI don’t follow that particular but if politics very closely, so I’m genuinely asking: is that still the case post-Brexit?
minus-squareBurn_The_Right@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoDamn. I never thought of that! Now I wonder too.
minus-squareSheeEttin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 year agohttps://www.politico.eu/article/united-ireland-look-more-likely-brexit-study-uk-belfast/
minus-squareFireTower@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year ago Two graphics on this topic from: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/12/03/poll-shows-northern-ireland-rejects-unity-by-large-margin/
minus-squareSomeBloke@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI get where you’re coming from, but to say that its akin to a civil war when there’s a unilateral mechanism for unification and there’s been lasting peace for decades… Feels a little reductionist.
Since Ireland still hasn’t gotten Northern Ireland back, they’re basically still in a civil war.
That’s a weird way to frame things given that a sizable majority of North Irelanders don’t want to reunify.
I don’t follow that particular but if politics very closely, so I’m genuinely asking: is that still the case post-Brexit?
Damn. I never thought of that! Now I wonder too.
https://www.politico.eu/article/united-ireland-look-more-likely-brexit-study-uk-belfast/
Two graphics on this topic from: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/12/03/poll-shows-northern-ireland-rejects-unity-by-large-margin/
I get where you’re coming from, but to say that its akin to a civil war when there’s a unilateral mechanism for unification and there’s been lasting peace for decades… Feels a little reductionist.