Biden’s Trip: All Irish Song and Dance, No Irish Substance
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U.S. President Joe Biden galivanted around Ireland over the past few days to push forward diplomatic objectives and embrace his ancestral roots. On its surface, Biden tried to encourage peaceful settlement of Brexit’s consequences on Northern Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement status quo, as well as affirm the Republic of Ireland as a close U.S. ally. While much of these events are boiler-plate political rhetoric, the implicit meaning behind them suggest conclusions more intriguing. One, Northern Ireland as a special economic zone loophole providing cheaper trade for U.S. companies. Two, the demand for the Republic of Ireland, as inseparable from U.S. led world order, to conform to NATO and enhanced military agenda. Three, the disregard of the U.K.’s special relationship with the U.S. eclipsed by one with the Republic of Ireland. Four, Biden’s Irish identitarianism fueling it all and its reflection on both the Irish American diaspora and the Irish in Ireland.
Biden’s Trip: All Irish Song and Dance, No Irish Substance
Biden’s Trip: All Irish Song and Dance, No…
Biden’s Trip: All Irish Song and Dance, No Irish Substance
U.S. President Joe Biden galivanted around Ireland over the past few days to push forward diplomatic objectives and embrace his ancestral roots. On its surface, Biden tried to encourage peaceful settlement of Brexit’s consequences on Northern Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement status quo, as well as affirm the Republic of Ireland as a close U.S. ally. While much of these events are boiler-plate political rhetoric, the implicit meaning behind them suggest conclusions more intriguing. One, Northern Ireland as a special economic zone loophole providing cheaper trade for U.S. companies. Two, the demand for the Republic of Ireland, as inseparable from U.S. led world order, to conform to NATO and enhanced military agenda. Three, the disregard of the U.K.’s special relationship with the U.S. eclipsed by one with the Republic of Ireland. Four, Biden’s Irish identitarianism fueling it all and its reflection on both the Irish American diaspora and the Irish in Ireland.