Agree with everything you’ve said. They only thing is China has been contesting a North Eastern border with India for some time so they might take the opportunity for some shenanigans.

Still don’t see it escalating beyond regional though as you said.

On one hand I think you’re right but on the other, if they’re correct, I’d say they want India to know they’re in their systems or have spies.

That kind of an opsec failure is going to be disconcerting at a minimum.

India RN:

An I remember that one. It’s good. I’ll see your solid paddywhackery and raise you this (which I honestly pissed myself laughing at the first time I saw it).

She married an Englishman and raised her kids there because Ireland in 1980 was not exactly thriving. She was around 20 when she left so definitely old enough to feel thoroughly Irish for a lifetime. She still has her accent and all.

She does talk about moving back here occasionally.

You don’t have to but I wouldn’t naturalise in her situation either. Under no circumstances would I pledge allegiance to a country that I felt wasn’t mine and if I had a green card I wouldn’t bother.

That’s not to say I might not feel that way about another country in the future but as I said my sister has been living in the UK for over two thirds of her life and would never consider getting a British passport. Even her adult daughter chooses an Irish one.

If you don’t mind me asking why bother with the dual citizenship? And did you feel any weirdness pledging yourself to the second country?

Regardless, 40 years here and hasn’t naturalized yet? Odd.

Nothing odd about it. An Irish passport is measurably better than an American one.

Edit: You can live in a different country for the vast majority of your life and still feel like it’s not your home country. My sister has lived in the UK for over forty years and is very much Irish.

The old bigot who lived next door to me growing up called me a tater tot

Prick. I heard two young American girls refer to the Irish as potatoes, in Dublin. They thought nobody could hear them then were properly embarrassed when they saw me.

That’s exactly what you get when you don’t punch the bully back. Russia broke the well defined post WW2 rule. It was a pretty simple rule too… Don’t try to rob your neighbour’s land.

They should not be rewarded in any way for it. If anything they already have been.

Very first thought was “surely that’s treason”.

I must look up the legal definition.

“Even if the U.S. continues to impose higher tariffs, it will no longer make economic sense and will become a joke in the history of world economy,” the ministry said in a statement,

Very concisely put. We’re at that point. Trade is effectively shut down at this point between the two. My limited understanding is that on the US side this will hit farmers the hardest.

Guess we’re going to see a flood of cheap Chinese stuff in every other market in the world too soon.

Is that house arrest?

Thank you.

Could someone tell me how she was able to walk out of the court having been sentenced to prison?

Good luck with the surgery!

“I take him at his word in this sense”

That’s the problem right there. Dope. His word is worth less than the air used to create it. His MO is literally to lull people into a false sense of security then rob or kill them.

Some countries have a grandparents rule if that’s any use to you. Ireland is one.

My understanding is that any protections like that only apply to citizens while at the border and not foreigners looking to travel.

It was a reasonable question given you didn’t know. The oul down vote pile on was a bit much IMO but here we are.

There was supposed to be an agreement to stop hitting both types of infrastructure but only in the last day or so is my understanding.