[reorder9695]

Ireland doesn't have 0 military capabilities, they have enough of a military to conduct peacekeeping missions elsewhere, which they don't need to do. They just don't have the ability to defend an invasion, but they do certainly have a military that does good in the world.

[simmerup]

Ireland have an army with no tanks and an air force with no jets.

How would they maintain peace in another country without the help of others

[Gud]

Who said without others? You don't need tanks for peacekeeping missions. Or jets for that matter. FWIW I was in Kosovo and served in a multionational task force including the Irish.

they were based next to some chicken farm, lord knows why, you could smell them from miles away, if you were unlucky.

[nradov]

OK so their capability isn't precisely 0, but it rounds to 0.

[dralley]

Their "peacekeeping" missions are somewhere between utterly impotent / useless and actively counterproductive. Playing dumb and doing nothing while Hezbollah uses you as cover to launch missiles over the border from a couple hundred meters away is not keeping the peace.

[osiris970]

Yeah, didn't they completely fail at stopping hezbollah from rebuilding, right in their backyard?

[istultus]

That assumes that their mission is to stop anything. UNRWA's sole mission (like most large-scale nonprofits - not suggesting they're unique) is to continue to procure money for its 30,000 or so salaried posts.

[C6JEsQeQa5fCjE]

Additionally, it assumes that the Irish, who broadly as a people support national liberation movements, would even want to prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding, even if they could.

[osiris970]

I mean what they think is somewhat irrelevant here, their UN mission was to stop terrorists from rebuilding, and utterly failed.

[C6JEsQeQa5fCjE]

The UN does not consider Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization, so that could not have been their UN mission.