You have 30 years to turn Ireland into a superpower, or at least a regional hegemon

You have 30 years to turn Ireland into a superpower, or at least a regional hegemon.

What is your game plan?

Step 1: Remove all Irish people.
At the very least it'll be less shit.

kill the englishmen

Operation Corned Beef goes global

Impossible.

To become a global hegemon you'd need monopoly over radiowaves, airspace, and subterainian to the center of the earth. Then unhindered space tier nuclear capability. Once you've got that, precious metals (pure free market) & drugs.

30 years? Cannabis plantations.

Not enough population.

Tell the EU to give me a shit ton of money in loans, or I'm leaving.

Take that money.

Repudiate the debt.

Ban the exportation of currency.

Tax imports, so that we're more self sufficient.

Ban charging interest on loans.

Gut the welfare system.

Invest a lot in infrastructure and businesses, especially farming and other essentials.

Ireland doesn't really have the population to be a superpower, but it can get really strong. I'd use the country's new found wealth to gain influence all throughout South America, Africa, and Asia and start cucking those countries. I'd also help supply right-wing movements across Europe.

Develop world class tanks, jets, and ships. Build at least 1 Air craft Carrier, 800 tanks, 130 battle ships, and 800 top of the line Jets. No one would fuck with me, and I'd be able to go having fun in the 3rd world. I'd probably need to colonize countries, so that we could get more troops and resources, so that we can be independent.

Basically National Socialism.

1. Acquire Northern Ireland
2. Maneuver to secure Scottish independence from the UK
3. Form a close geostrategic and economic partnership with Scotland
4. Use soft power to encourage further separatist movements in the UK; especially Wales and Cornwall.
5. Bring these countries into the union. England s now isolated and encircled, reliant on Ireland's good will to access the sea from the southern and northern passages.
6. Take steps to encourage euroskeptic parties and referenda in the EU. The EU slowly disintegrates (this is likely to happen anyway, with or without your action)
7. The 'Celtic Union', controlled by Dublin, is now a major regional bloc

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>Type "Cash"

>1. Acquire Northern Ireland
>2. Maneuver to secure Scottish independence from the UK
>3. Form a close geostrategic and economic partnership with Scotland
>4. Use soft power to encourage further separatist movements in the UK; especially Wales and Cornwall.
>5. Bring these countries into the union. England s now isolated and encircled, reliant on Ireland's good will to access the sea from the southern and northern passages.
>6. Take steps to encourage euroskeptic parties and referenda in the EU. The EU slowly disintegrates (this is likely to happen anyway, with or without your action)
>7. The 'Celtic Union', controlled by Dublin, is now a major regional bloc

1. Adopt a new currency.

2. Massive stimulus spending, focusing on infrastructure, education and high tech.

3. Subsidies for tuition including for some high performing international students, hopefully greatly increasing intellectual capital.

4. Stimulus lowers unemployment, but increases inflation and interest rates as currency devalues.

5. Massive quantitative easing to lower interest rates.

6. Use cheap currency and intellectual capital to undercut other countries in tech industries.

7. Use economic boom, tech talent and cheap credit to steal financial industry from Brexit-addled UK.

8. Profit, I guess.

Basically just step on the economic gas.

Most of these plans would probably work.

So why don't they just do it?

Because, democracy, because they change leader every few years, even party, because they have hundreds of people fighting and disagreeing over what decisions to make. Democracy is holding nations back.

A single leader with ultimate power can do so much and propel a country to greatness, but it cannot happen anymore, and there's too much risk that then next singular leader will be a reader.

Why can't we just have a democratic dictators, that is, we spend a few years deciding on a guy to lead us until he dies or retires.

>Most of these plans would probably work.

>Institute Protestantism as state religion
>hang priests
>pray
>???
>prophet

In all seriousness?

Ireland can never be a regional power. The population is too low, the economy is too small, and Ireland is too beholden to its neighbors for security and trade to overtly act against them.

However, there's one area that Ireland can adopt policies to maximize its influence, and that is energy.

Right now, Ireland gets 85% of its energy from foreign sources. 90% of that foreign energy comes from Britain. 90% of THAT energy comes through a single pipeline; the Moffat interconnector. If anything happens to that pipe, Ireland's economy simply turns off. It would be the greatest catastrophe Ireland has ever faced.

So Ireland's best bet for security and prosperity is by achieving energy independence.

Fortunately, Ireland's terrible weather is actually a resource. When you combine wind and tidal power, it's been calculated that the total energy flux that can reasonably be captured is about equal to Saudi Arabia's energy output.

Harnessing this energy would catapult Ireland a few rungs up the geopolitical hierarchy in Europe. They still won't be a Germany or a France, but they could bid for Italy- or Netherlands-tier influence if they put their shoulders to the wheel and established some large scale infrastructure projects.

Say what you want about the Nazis, at least they had long term thinking. Hitler was laying plans that were to roll out over a thousand years.

We get lucky if we elect representitives who are willing to think further than the next election cycle.

yeah and it all worked so well

He forgot to factor into his equations the Eternal Anglo

Make sure the UK leaves the EU then...

Shit

>What is your game plan?
1. Promote closer ties with Scotland, and promote a union in the event of Scottish independence.
2. Offer birth right trips to 1/194 Irish Americans, and encourage them to emphasise their Irish heritage over their other lineages.
3. Attempt to place newly indoctrinated Irish Americans in high places in Hollywood and DC. Establish American Irish Public Affairs Committee. Promote Irish heritage in the UK and Australia likewise.
4. Use friends in high places to promote Ireland's political goals. Produce Braveheart 2: Brythonic Boogaloo and watch as Wales, Cornwall and Brittany turn to the Celtic union.
5. Aggressively lobby the US congress to support Irish geopolitical goals, with military force if need be.
6. ????
7. Superpower

A technological advantage is overwhelmingly the most feasible way to gain an advantage over others, the chances of which are slim to begin with. Technology disrupts the balance of power and Ireland needs to be ahead when big changes happen.

Globalization is also important for economic growth, this might sound counter-intuitive, but most developed countries have expanded until technology is the limit of growth, yet there remains the option of investing in emerging markets. Some protectionism is needed to ensure the capital remains in the hands of the Irish as well as centers of technology, but most of the economy will be as open as possible to maximize growth. This would be accomplished with a government fund, similar to how Norway invests its oil wealth and has a surplus rather than a deficit.

Circumventing democracy would only cause chaos and be counterproductive, some corrupt Erdogan-like dictator will just take over, the economy would suffer and the country suffer from brain drain damaging progress towards the final goal. An alternative would be to form a secret society and an accompanying ideology. Usually they are created for the self-interest of their members, but this one would have to have a certain level of sacrifice and virtue to be more effective and attract support and deter opportunists, the ideology should be plural and moderate so as not to make any enemies and able to influence whoever is in power at the moment.

>getting back northern ireland
they will probably leave due to brexit, start a subtle intelligent propaganda campaign, trying to make it seem as though the in-groups of various factions oppose brexit, even among unionist extremists

> trying to make it seem as though the in-groups of various factions oppose brexit, even among unionist extremists

This. I can't believe the Irish government is not conducting such a psyop yet. The DUP is the only coherent force opposing Irish unity, and they have fucked a large majority of their support base by conning them into voting leave. Their current leadership is also weak and extremely unpopular with both hardline ulster loyalists and liberal British unionists. A well orchestrated campaign could shatter the DUP into two, perhaps even three parties, thereby destroying their dominance of the Unionist political camp.

The UUP, despite its name, is much more tractable to the prospect of unification, and IMO Sinn Féin should establish a covert electoral pact to enhance the UUPs representation at the expense of DUP.

>Tell the EU to give me a shit ton of money in loans, or I'm leaving.
>ok bye
what now?

The only problem with that is energy storage which is one of the most important problems of this century. Sure it would be possible to have great energy output, but what about calm days? With no storage for on demand energy there is no power.