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US is losing a war on washing, hardly fear inducing

Toilets are nice to have, but not REQUIRED when you are on a ship. Tongue in cheek

Ireland doesn't have a military.

They have ~8k troops.

Exactly. 0.23% of GDP. It exists only to be able to say that it exists. But it's not in NATO. The Irish will protect themselves if things go bad.