I mean Ireland's entire economy is based around letting US companies avoid taxes in the EU, so there's quite a bit the United States could do to fuck that up.
Combination of Ireland finally tacking to the right on immigration which Sinn Fein is not willing to entertain and this:
Sinn Fein’s problems have been compounded by scandals including a lawmaker who quit over the party’s handling of a complaint of harrassment against him, how it dealt with a senator who inappropriately texted a teenager, and controversy surrounding staff who gave job references to a former colleague under investigation for child sex offences.
That's exactly what has happened. Sinn Fein is basically imploding at exactly the moment where they had a decent shot at actually winning an election for the first time ever. Irish politics for the last century has been the ruling party switching from a centre right wing party to the exact same centre right party with a different name.
Nah unfortunately that match is being held at a "neutral venue" that has yet to be decided because UEFA realised if Maccabi ultras were allowed to run up against Çarşı (the ultras of Beşiktaş) they would straight up get killed.
Furthermore, in October 2024, the EU and G7 partners agreed to collectively provide loans of $50 billion to support Ukraine's urgent budgetary, military and reconstruction needs, financed by extraordinary revenues from immobilized Russian sovereign assets. The EU will contribute with $20 billion.
In July 2024, the EU made available the first $1.6 billion generated from immobilized Russian assets, of which $1.5 billion was channeled through the European Peace Facility for military support and $109 million through the Ukraine Facility for energy support.
I have to imagine it's the latter. Trump is the deals guy, he knows how negotiation is supposed to go if nothing else. He loves dealmaking just for the love of the game, even he's not stupid enough to start with his best offer.
Alright so now that we're done with the "most important election of our lifetimes" let's get back to Operation True Promise 3 posting
Oh yeah, I completely forgot about that. They're still funding Ukraine via the interest on that giant horde, too. Insanity.
Imagine labeling your opponent a fascist that will be the end of American democracy and then peacefully handing over to them the power of the entire state apparatus
That would be the point of contention, yeah. I suspect the actual negotiations (if Russia was willing to entertain them) would eventually end up with Ukrainian neutrality.
Still rings true, just replace English with the Americans