The Old, The Bold and The Rogue

24/09/2026

RTE reports NATO chief Mark Rutte as assuring us that the military bloc is "ready" for Russian hybrid warfare. "We have all these response options in place," the Secretary General promises, insisting that if Western nations really want to send a message to Moscow, they must pump "more support for Ukraine."

If you listen to the mouthpieces of the Western MIC hybrid warfare is about sabotaged railways, destroyed defence factories, and destructive cyberattacks crippling critical infrastructure.

Danish Defence Intelligence chief Thomas Ahrenkiel warns of a "low but growing risk" of a limited Russian military attack on NATO borders. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warns of drones and missiles. The picture painted is one of a shadow war, a creeping menace just below the threshold of a full scale attack.

According to current Euro-Atlantic security doctrine "hybrid warfare" is no longer just a descriptor for what Russia is doing. It has been transformed into an organising principle for Western governance itself—one that is being turned into a tool to silence domestic dissent, hollow out national sovereignty, and militarise everyday life.

The term has evolved from a contested academic buzzword into the central pillar of EU and NATO policy. The European Parliament’s September 2026 resolution on hybrid warfare and critical infrastructure conflates dire warnings about imagined conventional military threats and equally dire warnings about online disinformation, migration flows, and political dissent.

NATO’s Multi-Domain Operations Centre of Excellence now speaks openly of achieving "Cognitive Superiority"—the imperative to "Out-think" and "Out-pace" adversaries. The European Parliament, meanwhile, is calling for the integration of "cognitive-vulnerability mapping" into EU defence strategies, demanding a Civil-Military Scientific Advisory Group on Cognitive Threats that brings together behavioural scientists and neuroscientists.

So the security apparatus of the European Union is formally adopting a framework that targets "societal fault lines, perceived grievances, and historical narratives." It explicitly mandates the assessment of "perceived standards of living" and "public trust in democratic institutions" as metrics of vulnerability to hybrid attacks.

What does this mean in practice? It means the political class has constructed a theoretical apparatus that allows them to reframe your anger at the cost of living as a symptom of foreign manipulation.

In effect the hybrid warfare doctrine provides a get-out-of-jail-free card for failed governance. If the public is angry about inflation, housing, or crumbling public services, they aren't experiencing a rational response to material deprivation; they are victims of a "hostile cognitive influence operation." And once your discontent is securitised as a cognitive threat, the state is justified in deploying "specialised rapid-response teams" to counter you.

Nowhere is the toxic implication of this doctrine more glaring than in Ireland—a militarily neutral state that finds itself presiding over the institutionalisation of a security architecture fundamentally hostile to its own traditions.

The EU Parliament resolution calls for "full interoperability between the EU's civilian defence mechanisms and NATO's military infrastructure protection plans." It demands the mainstreaming of a "cognitive security lens" across all civilian and military agencies. In effect, this is the full assimilation of the EU into the NATO war machine.

Minister Helen McEntee has no problem advancing the EU security and defence agenda. Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan flies off to a Baltic Sea Security Summit to declare security a "core priority." Minister of State Neale Richmond performs the necessary rhetorical gymnastics, insisting there is "absolutely no pressure for us to join NATO" while simultaneously demanding Ireland "deepen security cooperation" with the very alliance it isn't joining. It is a masterclass in doublespeak.

The chasm between the Irish political class and the Irish people is widening into an abyss. While the government parrots Brussels orthodoxy about cognitive threats and Russian sabotage, the Irish public remains deeply attached to neutrality and deeply concerned about the fiscal treason being committed in their name. An Oireachtas finance committee report laid bare the scandal: €800 billion planned for EU defence at the expense of other priorities. Irish taxpayers are underwriting loans for Hungary to buy weapons, potentially including cluster mu*****ns.

The EU Parliament resolution includes a hollow caveat that the fight against hybrid threats must not be used as a pretext for generalised surveillance. But you cannot grant security institutions the power to map "cognitive vulnerabilities," assess "perceived standards of living," and deploy rapid-response teams against "hostile cognitive influence," and then pretend civil liberties are safe. The institutions tasked with defining what constitutes a hostile cognitive influence are the exact same institutions whose legitimacy is failing. The fox isn't just guarding the hen house; he's writing the security assessment on why the hens are unhappy.

When Mark Rutte says NATO is "ready" for hybrid warfare, he isn't just talking about stopping Russian hackers from hitting a power grid. He is announcing the readiness of the Euro-Atlantic elite to turn their security apparatus inward. It is about constructing an ideological shield against accountability and dissent.

It's an 1984 world on super steroids.

10/09/2026

🌹 When Captain Rosie Wild was handed the maroon beret on 18 February 2020, she had done something no woman in the British Army had ever done before — she had passed P Company.

There was no lowered standard. No easier route. No special allowance.

She passed the same gruelling selection required of those preparing to serve with Britain’s airborne forces.

Loaded marches. The Trainasium. A log race. A stretcher race. An assault course. Endurance. Milling.

Test after test designed to push strength, stamina and determination to the limit.

Rosie kept going.

It was the latest step in a journey that had already demanded resilience. A serious knee injury had forced her through substantial rehabilitation, but she recovered, completed Sandhurst and received the Sword of Honour as the outstanding officer cadet of her commissioning course.

Then came P Company.

Women had been permitted to attempt it since the mid-1990s. Several had tried. None had completed it successfully.

Until Rosie Wild.

At Catterick, aged 28, she became the first woman — and first female British Army officer — to pass All-Arms Pre-Parachute Selection.

For Rosie, it was more than a historic first. P Company was the gateway to the airborne role she wanted with 7 Para RHA.

And she had earned her place.

Months later, she completed the separate Basic Parachute Course and gained her parachute wings, going on to serve with 7 Para RHA and alongside 2 PARA.

Her achievement mattered because the standard did not move.

She met it.

The same standard.

Rosie Wild’s story is one of determination, professionalism and history made through achievement — a barrier broken not by changing the test, but by passing it.

The maroon beret was earned.

And she earned it.

A proud moment in British Army history, and a milestone for the women who followed.

Respect, Major Rosie Wild RHA. 🌹

07/09/2026

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To anyone who cares to read the truth:

We look at two men. Two lives. Two very different paths. And we see not justice — but a choice. A deliberate, political choice — made in quiet rooms, by people who never stood on a checkpoint, never heard a shot fired in anger, never had to make a decision in a heartbeat that would haunt them for a lifetime.



MARTIN MCGUINNESS — THE LEADER WHO WAS FORGIVEN

He rose through the ranks of the Provisional IRA. Second-in-command in Derry. Director of Operations. Chief of Staff. Member of the Army Council — the body that authorised every major bombing, every shooting, every death across thirty years.

He was there on Bloody Sunday — armed, active, part of the leadership that sent men onto the streets with guns. The Saville Inquiry confirmed it. He never denied his rank. He never apologised for the campaign.

Under his leadership, bombs were planted in city centres. In hotels. In shopping centres. In churches. Prison officers were shot outside their homes. Off-duty police were gunned down in front of their families. Proxy bombs — human bombs — were driven to targets at gunpoint. Thousands died.

He was never prosecuted. Never questioned under oath. Never stood in a dock to answer for any of it. Instead — he was given immunity. He was given power. He became Deputy First Minister. He was feted, honoured, described as a "statesman." When he died — he was eulogised by leaders across the political spectrum.

The man who built and led the organisation that killed thousands — was forgiven completely.



DENNIS HUTCHINGS — THE SOLDIER WHO WAS HUNTED

He was a soldier. A Life Guard. Sent to Northern Ireland by his own government — to do the job that country asked of him. In 1974, during a military patrol, in difficult, fast-moving circumstances — a man was shot and killed. The incident was investigated at the time. No further action was taken. The Army saw no crime.

Forty-seven years later — they came for him.

He was in his late seventies. Then eighty. In poor health. He was dragged from his home, taken to Belfast, put on trial — charged with attempted murder and grievous bodily harm with intent. No new evidence had emerged. No new witnesses. Just a decision — made decades later — to prosecute a man in the winter of his life for something that had been looked at and closed long before.

He died before the trial ended. Before he could clear his name. Before he could even know if a jury would believe him.

The soldier who did his duty — was hounded to his grave.



AND SO WE ASK — SIMPLY AND HONESTLY

If the leader of an organisation responsible for thousands of deaths — who authorised bombings, shootings, proxy bombs, murders — can walk free, become a senior politician, and never face a single day in court — then why cannot a soldier, acting in the field, under orders, in a conflict zone — not be given the same grace?

If the man who planned and directed the campaign is immune — why is the man who fought in it prosecuted?

If the one who gave the orders is forgiven — why is the one who carried them out pursued until his dying breath?

It is not about what they did. It is about who they were.

One had political power. The other had only his uniform. One had a peace deal that protected him. The other had nothing but the memory of the country he served.

That is not justice. That is not peace. That is a deal — and we were not party to it. We were its price.



WE DO NOT ASK FOR SPECIAL TREATMENT — WE ASK FOR EQUAL TREATMENT

We do not say the soldier was always right. We do not say no crime was ever committed. We do not say there should be no accountability.

We say — apply the same rule to both.

If you forgive the leader — forgive the soldier.
If you prosecute the soldier — prosecute the leader.
If you grant amnesty to the organisation — grant amnesty to the individuals it sent to fight.

You cannot have one law for the man in the balaclava and another for the man in the uniform. Not if you want to call it justice. Not if you want to call it peace. Not if you want to call it fair.



AND REMEMBER — THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE PAST. IT IS ABOUT THE FUTURE

When you prosecute the old soldier — and honour the old terrorist — you send a message. Not just to us. To every young person considering putting on that uniform. To every family with a son or daughter in the services.

You are telling them: Serve your country — and when it is convenient, we will throw you to the wolves. We will make deals with your enemies — and we will leave you to face the music alone.

That is not how you treat those who stood between you and the storm. That is not how you build a country. That is how you destroy its soul.



WE ARE VETERANS AND SUPPORTERS UNITED — AND WE WILL NOT BE SILENT

We are not asking for revenge. We are asking for balance.
We are not asking for favour. We are asking for fairness.
We are not asking to rewrite history — we are asking you to read it honestly.

Equal justice. For all. Or justice for none.

That is not an extreme demand. That is the very foundation of the law. And until it is applied equally — to the leader and the soldier, to the politician and the private — there is no settlement. There is no closure. There is only one more betrayal. And one more generation that will not forget.



Signed —
Veterans AND Supporters United
We remember. We observe. We stand.

Quis Separabit.

07/09/2026

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22/06/2026

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