Stupid and all as this report is, its main recommendations and approaches will work its way into law both at the national Irish level and at the European Union level as well.

NATO knows that, once they incessantly beat their war drums and get their entire orchestra strumming along, their propaganda will easily carry the day in The War of the Words.

The Vatican should stop speaking in tongues and call out the massacres in the Congo, Nigeria, Sudan and Syria for what they are.

As America metaphorically turns its guns on China, Uncle Sam can be sure that any trouble emanating from Europe over Greenland or anything else can be easily dealt with.

Although you may not have read Chang’s latest screed, if you have ever perused the offerings of any airport book store, you will be familiar with this genre that is full of scary and lurid headlines regarding world domination.

But, as with Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, we must all help our own champions in every way, big or small.

There was hope in the air that, just as Jesus had risen from the dead on Easter Sunday, so would the multi-confessional Syria also rise.

The pending destruction of both the Israeli Defence Forces and of the Israeli state they serve has so many similarities with the destruction of the Wehrmacht and of the Nazi state they served that they cannot be ignored.

Polish military adventurism in Odessa or anywhere else will not end well for those Poles charged with taking the place of Zelensky’s Banderite Baby Divisions in the body bags that await them in Ukraine.

If lawfare does not work, there is always the option of going in with all guns blazing.