Re: Well tried and comprehensively already field tested .....
The Republic of Ireland has this novel interpretation of Neutrality call Parasitic Neutrality. They cannot be *rsed to even pretend to defend their country. Unlike ever other neutral country in Europe it has no army, no navy, or no air-force. It did have an army but it was de-facto disbanded in the 1930' for purely party political reasons.
Their "army" is basically two or three regiments of gendarmerie with a few artillery pieces for show. Could easily be rounded up by a regiment of the French GN or eastern European Interior Troops. Their greatest military exploit was shooting large numbers of lightly armed Congolese tribesmen in the early 1960's but quickly succumbed when faced with a company of real solders. They spend almost all their tiny defense budget on pay and pensions. Or compo payouts. The national passtime.
The country has very few friends in Europe as it is recognized for what it is - a defense freeloader. The Irish Dept of Foreign Affairs made lots of enemies in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia in the last decade with its interfering grandstanding with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and related stuff. Where Ireland and a bunch of second and third world countries did the usual utterly fatuous UN "treaty" BS.
Which sums it up really. Ireland's only real "friends" are banana republics and failed nations. Which is why Ireland was only allowed to join the UN in 1955. With the last of the Axis and Enemy nations of WW2.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
