Ireland is a small country, but so is Bhutan, and Bhutan is notorious for doing things their own way and not letting large countries like America or China interfere in their internal affairs. I’m guessing that Irish people just want the world to like us, and thinks that if we listen to American neoliberal and neoconservative advice, we’d be liked by the whole world, except for big bad Russia, a country that has never done anything to us, even if I disagree with their policies.

The problem with that, is that this will backfire on us. A lot of people in Europe just see us as a puppet state of Washington. Recently, there was a football match in Budapest between Ireland and Hungary, in which Irish footballers kneeled in honour of Black Lives Matter. Seeing it as a form of American colonialism, the Hungarian spectators booed at the footballers. And that is just the beginning. I don’t want to come off as anti American, because most Americans are good people, but their federal government and their federal institutions are wicked and vile. Thankfully, Americans are beginning to notice what’s been happening to their country, and they are speaking out against their government and their institutions.