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Old February 21st, 2020 #1
Ray Allan
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Talking Is Russia planning to invade Ireland?

Russia isn't just mapping Ireland's internet cables - it's planning to INVADE, foams Cold War-revivalist DC think tank

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Russia is poised to invade Ireland and seize control of global communications, according to a crew of Cold War relics and professional Russophobes who've taken an already absurd James Bond-esque story and doubled down on it.

Ireland's status as a "vital telecommunications and logistics hub linking North America and Europe" has made it an irresistible prize to "the Putin regime," according to a bizarre paper published on Wednesday by the Center for Security Policy, a right-wing think tank. Russia isn't just lusting after Ireland's burgeoning crop of tech firms, or its forest of undersea communications cables, the group argues - it's actively plotting to invade the Emerald Isle.

The unhinged plot apparently derives from a story published last weekend in the Irish Times, which warned - citing the usual anonymous source in the Garda and the military - that Russian spies were observed last year mapping out the precise location of the transatlantic ocean-bed cables that form the backbone of global communications in preparation for "future mapping or even damage."

...And a real-life invasion is only part of the dastardly Russians' plans for little old Ireland, the CSP warns: "even without invading, Russia is using Ireland to tap into the trans-Atlantic undersea cable network and burrow into Dublin-based tech companies." Evidence? Who needs evidence, when you're keeping the world safe for democracy? With such a national-security emergency on their hands, Ireland would have to be downright suicidal not to leap into the waiting arms of its knight in shining NATO armor.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/481326-russ...ommunications/
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