Why Ireland Is So Important to President Biden | WSJ
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- President Biden takes great pride in his heritage and often quotes Irish poets. How has his affinity to Ireland shaped his approach to politics?
WSJ explains why Ireland is so important to him as Biden made his first trip back to his ancestral home since becoming president, marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
0:00 President Biden’s Irish background
0:36 History of American presidents visiting the Emerald Isle
1:21 How President Biden weaves his Irish roots into his political rhetoric
2:27 U.S.-Ireland diplomatic relations
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Ireland is beautiful! ❤️🙏🏻
@SquareRoot dust bowl
The landscape is nice but the people are even nicer!.
@@fitzstv8506 The landscape is nice but the towns and cities are slums.
@@mjh5437 No they are not, most Irish towns and cities are pleasant places to live and work in, for sure there are slums and run down areas but no more than in any other country.
@@mjh5437 The towns and cities are fine, some a beautiful in their own right.
Irish are a strong and good people , Salam from 🇺🇸
Love Ireland.
The Irish are solid good people
When it say he named the Mongolian horse Celtic, I missed it as kill it 😂
Our Prime Minister is called the Taoiseach (pronounced T-Shock). Gotta get that right! 🇮🇪👍
He's as Irish as he is young.
Yeah, but no, because all the non-native americans must've come from somewhere in Europe. I read it in the history books before they were rewritten. How many generations past do you need in order to be recognised, it's a conundrum for some, and that's why I've got three citizenships, and that's not a joke. Is it time spent in that country, ideally growing up, or a documented bloodline, or maybe a few certificates that enable others to accept you, Or, can one just not give a fk and simply be kind to others regardless...
So what is he actually? Could he be *gasps* A MEXICAN????
10 of his 16 great grandparents come from Ireland so I think you will find a very significant part of him is Irish and besides the important think here is that his Irish heritage is important to him and something he is proud of like the 35 million other Americans who also have Irish heritage. Where do your ancestors hail from and is your heritage important to you?.
@@itzasweater9621 -
Cool it - feeling Irish is a state of mind, nothing to do with genetics.
One should absolutely be proud of their heritage - especially Celtic heritage!
It’s just a shame many US politicians, Biden included, seem to fundamentally misunderstand the dynamics & realities of Northern Ireland.
The Good Friday agreement is underscored by provisions to enable the incorporation of NI into the Republic once a majority agree so. Yet many US politicians continue to imply it’s occupied and similar rhetoric. It just feeds fuel to the fire of an already volatile community.
Biden fundamentally misunderstands everything, not just Ireland. Be happy he's not your president.
It should go back to Ireland and be part of the republic
@@Worldaffairslover try to understand what RJ is saying there as it's correct - the option is there to rejoin, there's nothing significant to stop NI if the majority want it. It's not an ideology of rebellion that is happenig, like some kind of hollywood Braveheart, it's just that most people are ok with aligning with the UK, at the moment, and can switch if the British fk around again, That's why its an important agreement, and the anti-british sentiment is now, thankfully, just a thing of history and hollywood.
@@neanda not post brexit since it changed optinion there and in scottland. People want better economic opertunities and NI can see how the irish nation is economically stronger then britian now.
@@Worldaffairslover Northern Ireland can return to the Republic of Ireland whenever it wants, it just so happens that a narrow majority of people living in Northern Ireland want to remain as part of the UK. The way population growth and voting trends are currently going, Northern Ireland will vote to join the Republic of Ireland in the foreseeable future.
I thought he was a Polish Puerto Rican! Wow, Uncle Joe surely is a man of diversity!
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You left out Greek
I for sure thought he was Mexican
I thouht he said he was raised in the black church by Puerto Rican's and of course attended the synagogue every week...the old fool is a pandering lying disgrace.
Don’t forget Jewish…
“I probably went to shul more than many of you did. You all think I’m kidding,”
Ireland is beautiful.
Go out there and lick the world!
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他回到家，感觉特别亲切！！！
Luck of the Irish
We can see two different Bidens .... which is the real one old Biden?🤔
Why do americans identify so intensly with the nationality of their great grandfather? i mean why do they care to make the distinction? They are clearly americans, you can spot them from a km away. In argentina we don't say we are argentinian- italian, because we are not. We are born and raised in latin america, why would we like to pretend otherwise and claim and identity wich doesn’t belong to us.
you say you are German ;)
No matter where you colonized, you’re still the ethnicity of your roots
Dude......I feel you. Only mentioning this to you to set the stage. I'm from 1695 immigrants of Scotland. I am 100% Red White & Blue American. I've had ancestors fight in the American revolutionary war to my serving in the US Army, I am American.
My guess to your question is it's a subtle insecurity blanket for people needing to feel special just a tad. Sometimes a minority group needs to feel more clannish to feel secure. A lot of the time it's used for an excuse. As time forges ahead the thinner human skin seems to get.
Much respects, have a great life.
Just an average *real American.
Argentinians are not white.
@@Worldaffairslover I didn’t colonize anywhere jajaj, i might be a result of colonization, but so is Argentina itself. A country, with rich culture and history; that is also my history, and where my identity lies, not in Europe where my grandmas grandfather lived jajaj
Ballina is lovely looking
Joe, raised by Puerto Ricans, drove a Mac truck to the Black Church after Mass and went to Shul more than Jews.
almost every US presidents *except van Buren* have atleast one ancestor from the British isles.
No one, including Biden I would imagine would use the term 'British Isles'. The Brits came up with that. There is nothing British about the island of Ireland I can assure you.
The US and UK look at Ireland as a kind of cuddly and innocuous but I think it would be unwise to dismiss Ireland as such. Ireland has a powerhouse of an economy and has great potential in the future.
@@elyrexo defence from what?
@@elyrexo Ireland is a militarily neutral country and that is the way the vast majority of the Irish people like it, Ireland because of neutrality has been spared the direct consequences of all the major conflicts of the last 100 years and it has little time for the divisive politics and narrative that bedevils our world. Ireland does not scrounge "free defence", if some other country somehow appears to defend Ireland they do so for their own strategic purposes and not for Ireland's.
I might also remind you that the EU republics of Austria and Malta are neutral yet I don't see any criticism of their positions in these comments.
Ireland has no enemies, few naturals resources and is of little strategic use to any other country other than the UK and they have already experienced Irish "hospitality" so they will not be coming back.
Small countries with smaller resources can never hope to defend against a determined enemy with larger resources however in saying that Ireland does need to boost it's Air defence ability and I believe this is going to be done but it will have to be done carefully to maintain Irish neutrality ie. sourcing equipment from neutral or non aligned sources.
@@fitzstv8506 It’s true Ireland is a neutral country but strategically it’s geographical area including the Irish Sea would be a great resource to NATO as it would allow them to protect the most Western side of Europes waters. Also it’s a stop off for American Military Vehicles to Refuel at Shannon Airport. I agree though, I don’t think we have any incentive to join NATO right now.
@@Mark-5050 The British, French, Norwegians, Portuguese and Spanish provide NATOs western Europes flank with enough firepower to deter any possible aggression, Ireland if in NATO would just be a very junior partner in this group but still targeted in the event of a serious conflict.
Thanks but no thanks NATO is not be a place Ireland should be a part of.
I really don’t think they look at it at all the same. Americans have a very large soft spot for Ireland in their heart. A lot of the English people I have met have some weird condescending attitude when it comes to the Irish. It’s really strange.
Nicely put together clip
Shouldn't the WSJ be asking why Ireland is so important to the US? It's afar more relevant question and the answers are important
Ireland is liked by the US because both countries have similar culture and both had to struggle for self determination from the British Empire many Americans also have Irish heritage, the US likes the underdog because it once was there itself. Ireland is also a business friendly nation where prime US companies have invested many many billions of Dollars over the decades because of Irish work ethic and high levels of education. On the flip side Ireland despite it's small size is the 9th highest inward investor in the US. Irish people and their efforts have helped more than most shape and build the US over the centuries.
$734 billion dollars of US investment, $100 billion in annual bilateral trade and a key political ally within the European Union. That's why.
@fitzstv I'm not sure how culturally similar countries who revoked Roe-v-Wade and repealed the 8th Amendment in the space of a decade actually are
the UK was America's bridge for interests in Europe prior to Brexit. Post Brexit the UK is quite frankly not very geopolitically useful to the USA outside matters of defense, as such this bridge or "special relationship" as the brits liked to call it has basically ended. Outside of this, Ireland and the USA have always held quite a close relationship as the US has quite a large Irish diaspora within its populace, and with the UK no longer being within the EU, Ireland fills this bridge role quite well. So essentially, Ireland has a lot of geopolitical influence within the USA due to its diaspora and the US needs a new seat at the EU table and Ireland has always been willing to play ball. It is just beneficial for both parties at this point.
For the US, Ireland is its entry point into the European market, a market of more than double the US population, so plenty of buyers for American goods there. Also, Ireland is the only English speaking country in the European Union, so very easy for US companies to locate there (also attracted by Ireland's low tax rates). There are currently over 700 of the top US companies with their European locations in Ireland, so the economic fate of both countries is linked. That coupled with Bidens Irish heritage, the large Irish-American vote he appeals to in the US and (and this bit is a guess) his possible distaste for UK presence in Northern Ireland, would all account (IMHO) for Ireland's relevance to the US.
Bit long winded, but there you go :)
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Because I never felt so optimistic!😂
Section 14 of the Extradition Act 1965 prevents the extradition of an Irish national unless the relevant extradition treaty or arrangement provides otherwise. THIS IS WHY IRELAND IS IMPORTANT
All resistance fights was not a game anybody could find them playing Call of Duty WWII. It's a place asking for career opening and better offices.
He basically hates the British 😂
Stop that total Farage BS - Joe is not in 'hate' stuff. He's met more with Brit leaders as VP, P, than with any other country. He knows Britain is indispensable on Ukraine, on global crisis.
Awesome.
It never matters what your roots are
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Everyone is more important than American citizens
Ah now, that’s a bit much…
And yet it's still essentially impossible for an Irish national to immigrate to America nowadays. Wonderful.
Why would you want to? You guys have it way better over there these days. Plenty of Irish Americans are actually returning. You guys are fast becoming the richest country in Europe.
@@philomelodia Our GDP is distorted due to the large presence of MNCs in our country. Instead we use modified GNI* PPP to gauge our actual economic activity; typically this yields a figure 15-20% lower than the stipulated GDP figures for the same year. In reality we have a living standard somewhere between that of the Netherlands and Sweden.
As to why we wish to emigrate; currently we're experiencing a transient shock to our housing market due to low levels of construction following the 08' crash and the Eurozone crises. The capacity of our construction sector collapsed but other sectors of our economy, particularly tech and pharma, boomed from 2012 onwards. As such, there is a housing crises here which won't be resolved for another 3-5 years.
@@jamiegrant5955 join the club, bud. I feel your pain. We have a housing crisis of our own over here. The orange idiot we had in office before uncle Joe. Well, he signed it into law that it was OK for hedge funds and mutual funds to own realestate as part of their portfolios. So, they started buying up properties like crazy after the prices had already skyrocketed beyond belief in the last couple of years. They then sit on these properties contributing to their scarcity to the point that there’s lots of empty houses in cities like Atlanta in Georgia just taking up space. Those that do not let their property sit empty have hiked up rents something fierce. An entire generation has been priced out of buying a home. The latest episode in how can I screw things up even more courtesy of our lovely government was to raise interest rates by about 500% in the last few months. It’s bad. Anyway, if you ever do decide to immigrate and you make it to Dallas, look me up and I’ll buy you a beer. There’s an amazing stout made here called Lakewood Temptress which is very fine indeed. Just, for the sake of God, don’t go up to some Sean O’Brien, Patrick Murphy or Tim Sullivan from here and tell them that they’re not Irish because they didn’t grow up in Ireland, weren’t born in Ireland or didn’t have parents born in Ireland. That is an absolutely fantastic way of getting yourselfa beat down. My word on it.
Thank you Mr. President-it is true
Stay there!
Is there anybody here who would help a panhandler Doctor?
Joe Biden, please help Papua too to be an independence state, please help them
if indonesia commits a war crime and someone records it then it gets traction and america will probably do something
@@DSpace1 The Five Eyes support the genocide of Papau ppl. Stop lying.
The independence of Papua is not in the strategic interests of the UsA. You might get some support in the UN
@@RobespierreThePoof true cuz indonesia is a american ally and they also hate china as well so unless indonesia jus suddenly went pro china
@@DSpace1 hate china?
The only thing important to Jojo is Jojo.
Ole Irish Joe on the beautiful northern shores of ireland..I'm proud to have a president with direct ties to ireland..but Irish Joe better not come back here and be after givin'us the blarney..he'd better keep that tongin' to himself..hahaha
Joe's an Amadán!!!
Yo lo que veo es un compañero con una cara dura pero muy dura para decir esa cantidad de mentiras a un pueblo que no puede contradecirlo.
I wonder how much WSJ made off this puff piece.
The biggest most embarrassing fraud in America.
Signed,
American
Who is Trump?
(We're playing Jeopardy, right?)
@@SupertzarMetal economy was way better under Trump and we ukraine wasn’t invaded under him
Trump?
@@SupertzarMetal thank you for your ignorant comment however you have proven that my Theory on Global Stupidity is alive and well!!!
@@revy1370 Russia when trump: wants to invade Ukraine in 2022
Biden: Becomes president in 2020
Russia in 2022: *Invades ukraine*
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Let's go Brandon
Where's the Protesters ?????
cope
I LOVE AMERICA AND ALL AMERICANS IRRESPECTIVE OF CASTE, COLOUR, RACE,SEX, LANGUAGE, REGION OR RELIGION
Ireland has disowned Joe Biden.
why don't you rule them 🤷🏻♂️
Why am I just finding out Joe is Catholic?!?!
Four generation American and he still babble about Ireland. He was just looking for pampering!!!!
SALUTATIONS BY RAVINDER TALWAR JALANDHAR CITY PUNJAB INDIA
All americans love him 💪🏻🇺🇸
Thank you President Biden 🙏🇺🇸
Thank you Irish people !
You love him? He is cutting all oil, coal, capping Natural gas wells, sending your jobs to China, sending your oil reserves to China, received millions from China, cutting aid to farmers, lowest farm harvest in America history, Highest Homeless in History, lowest, send Billions to Ukraine at the same time cutting welfare for thousands, 4 wars with Nuclear power countries, yes we love him. WAKEUP Just as the U.S. and China are getting ready to fight a war, all of a sudden we are witnessing an exponential surge in Chinese nationals coming across our southern border. Yeah, that doesn't seem suspicious at all.
Are you joking? All Americans love him? Have you seen his rallies his rallies have barely anyone. But trump on the other hand has lots. Not to many Americans love Biden.
“All” 😂😂😂
Biden the Englishman 😂
why? wsj sent him there to mine north pole like russia
Because he’s in the IRA
I can't believe the commentator said Biden sympathizes with minorities through Ireland 😂. There are plenty of oppressed minorities in the US for him go help.
He’s more talking about the oppression of nations. Like what the colonial powers did to Ireland, India etc. if you look at Palestine it’s similar to Northern Ireland
@@cbucks95 He supports apartheid Israel, subjugation of the Americas, and is the forefront of Western imperialism on the Global South. How does he support oppressed groups?
He's simply making an ideological point. Submitting an entire people is wrong.
Get it now?
Well, he has the most diverse Cabinet in US history - a Native American as Secretary of the Interior, A Black as SOD another first, a Pakistani lady leading FTC....dozens other highest level appointees from BAME populations.
Likes to forget his English roots and English surname though doesn't he? Big up the Union 🇬🇧
I wonder why?.
@@fitzstv8506 because the British have more brains
@@redpillreset1741 Brains have nothing to do with it, there are smart English people and dumb English people, there are smart Irish people and dumb Irish people etc etc.
Irish heritage is strong and worth celebrating, English heritage is weak and largely forgotten after one generation.
@@fitzstv8506 nothing more strong about Irish heritage than anywhere else
@@joebloggs396 Yes there is and well you know it!
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Wants support
Biden BS.
Amazing the way they talk about Biden compared how they talked about trump. Even Apple won’t automatically capitalize trump . Amazing
Probably because trump is also a word not just a name
@@SF-rw1oz hahaha. Yeah right. Everyone knows what trump is. Trump was our president . If it was anyone else it would be capitalize
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HEY SATNARAYAN SWAMI SALAUNI PARSAD DEBHA SABKO NAASH KARR DOGO...🥳🥳🥳
PEP$$$$?
Can barely speak English, trying Gaelic! 😂
I found the whole thing hypocritical, he came over here preaching about peace, while he’s finding Saudi Arabia 1 billion in weaponry which has led to over 24,000 civilian deaths in Yemen
Hardly. Geopolitics is complicated and often contradictory. It’s not a sign of duplicity. Even Trump found himself in many similar situations z
@@supereliptic it’s not just that, he claims to be all for climate change, while he just approved the willow project which will be the largest drilling project in the US, this also far more drilling than trump it’s not even close
@@supereliptic another thing he said was he wants to cure world hunger and save starving children,yet many studies have shown if just 30 billion was spent on the homeless crisis it would be sorted by 2030, if he really wanted to solve these issues he has the power to do so but he won’t, he’s a liar just like trump, how anyone could vote for those two scumbags is beyond me
I’m Spanish but I like Biden a bit more now because I feel a lot of sympathy towards the Irish Nation and its people
Thank you for your sympathy
He dont even car for americans
I mean that when I went to Ireland everyone was truly nice and polite + I loved the countryside
I’m not Irish but I do like them a lot
He’s a politician, they don’t or they aren’t allowed to do politics for most of the people, on the long run above all
Wake up.
Do the Irish people want to keep Biden? Because the American people will gladly give him to y’all no charge or strings attached
Steve M, spokesman for the American people.
I thought CCP Joe was Chinese
😄
Because he'll need somewhere to flee when his term is up
U can have a peace and get on with geo polotics
I can't understand why Ireland is so important to him.. after all Ireland and the United States have an extradition treaty..
Ireland should join NATO
We don't have much of an army, also anytime we take up arms when we're not fighting one of Britain's wars we get labelled as terrorists.
If Obama went to his paternal homeland of Nigeria, I wonder what the public response would be. Interesting double standard here.
He loves Ireland so much, he only visit's now 🤔🤔🤔I smell BS.
Been here many times…twice as Vice President
@@mulhern1988 I stand corrected, but still think he's a fake.
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Maybe he wants to run for president of Ireland. Maybe he should stay there.
I am sure he has another scheme to make money off of them
He should chase out the brits from Northern Ireland 😂
👑 😡😡😡Not that Palestine matters in October 2023 Joe...double standards ‼️‼️‼️🤬🤬🤬
Yuck
Bom dia santo Biden que Deus abençoe ilumine os caminhos teus sempre te amo homem de atitude te amo hoje é sempre te amo te amo te amo te amo te amo te amo te amo te amo te amo te amo te amo te amo te amo te amo te amo te amo ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Needs a Refuge if things get really bad - At least for Hunter - maybe others ? Asylum ? 😏
I'll say it again for ya'll at the back "FJB"
Congratulations President Biden!
Please stay there for you are a curse to the rest of us❤
WHAT A FAKE!
Yeah…he’s Irish. We get it, Joe! You like Ireland. Though, this seems like a silly topic for WSJ to cover with video. Just saying…
Ireland is not a real country.
it is more like a holding corporation with a country.
But it has the quality of a nation. And there is this stubborn reality.
...OBiden family of crime is interested in Ireland for reasons The City of London and their laundromat compatriot coconspirators in the most opaque and most active laundromats of Delaware, home of horrific monied interests, including mobbed up politicos, top down, and Du Pont and credit card cartels, too.
That comment makes no sense
Stupid comment. Ireland looks much more of a country than the UK does now after Brexit
I don't know what kind of people must breed to produce people like you, but they really should be given access to both control.
I like to see your condition after if you said that directly to an Irish person standing in front of you.......there would be blood, tears and an Ambulance.
By the way these corporations you speak about account for about 16% of the Irish economy the rest is 100% Irish. Read some books and learn things.
Did Hunter leave with any lucrative work?
If a suitcase filled with money counts as work, probably.
@@aaronsakhai Your confusing the Hunter Biden with Jared Kushner. That’s the guy who sold your country to the Saudis for a few billion in real estate deals and access to the Whitehouse.
Now, show me some proof that Hunter Bidens actually done something illegal- show me anyone other than Trump and his teaparty psycho friends who have accused him of anything improper!
We love Biden in Ireland ❤️
FJB
If you love him so much, please.
You love a nuclear ☢️ crisis he caused with a proxy war in Ukraine 🙊🙉🙈
If he gives you money
There all Corrupt
If Donald Trump becomes president, the policies of the American nation or his wishes, unlike Joe Biden's grandfather, the policies of the democratic party and the Pentagon 😂, surely he will be in the defense , To be president 😂
Jibbetish
Donald Trump had his chance and he blew it.....he is now yesterdays news.
Why isn't Native America, Europe, Asia, Africa or South America important? Hypocrisy
the only thing important to US politicians is themselves