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    Labor MPs quietly alarmed by Albanese government’s response to US-Israel strikes on Iran

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    2. Shoitaan on

      Everyone Australian leader is going to have kiss America’s ass for the next few decades thanks to this AUKUS mess. Thanks Scomo.

    4. MarmotFullofWoe on

      It’s a very careful statement.

      “We support the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent Iran continuing to threaten international peace and security,” the statement read.

      This is not a whole hearted endorsement. It’s a statement that we don’t want a nuclear armed Iran. There is no Coalition of the Willing as was the case in Desert Storm.

    5. spletharg2 on

      This behaviour by Albo will alienate a lot of Labor votors. Very strange, un-labor behaviour appearing in the Labor party, both with Minns and Albo. I barely recognise the party.

    6. Althusser_Was_Right on

      Probably all Marles. Dude’s been gunning for a war since before he got the Defence portfolio.

    7. Daleabbo on

      Everybody seems to be under the impression australia is going to join in with Afghanistan 2 electric bugaloo but there is a good reason to help the GCC out. The price of oil.

      I’m am 100% against any offensive posturing or deployment but purely defensive forces being sent to defend infrastructure is what is needed, we should also sent them the bill for providing security, they have the money.

      I dont want to see petrol at $3 a litre.

    8. freakwent on

      In terms of domestic politics it makes perfect sense.

      Realistically anything else would be virtue signalling. He’s not going to get into a public argument with Trump, nothing practically helpful is possible from this path.

    10. theHoundLivessss on

      Pathetic behaviour by Albanese. Anyone who knows anything about the history and current state of the region can see that this American and Israeli led war has the potential to escalate into something very, very grim.

      Iran is not a tinpot dictatorship. It is poor due to sanctions and often cruel to its citizens, but we cannot think of it as another Iraq. They have a well organised and well armed military which has been preparing for this war since the 90s. In 2003 America spent the equivelant of half a billion dollars in today’s terms to game this war and found the risk of escalation and mass casualty events outweighed the benefits of any potential victory condition. For example, as munition supplies deplete, Iran will seek to strike wherever they can cause the most pain. The strikes on Tel Aviv, the UAE and other gcc nations (who are housing American troops and munitions to be clear) were a clear message: we go down, we go down so violently it destroys your country for the next decade. They also have strong ties to Russia, China, and the DPRK. Though they lack nuclear deterrence, there is a real possibility that Kim or Putin will declare them a protectorate.

      And that is only on the Iranian side. America and Israel are doing everything they can to ensure the entire region is destabilised. Threatening to glass Shia clerics and assassinating leaders while in the middle of negotiations is the sort of tactic that reduces your ability to make reasonable progress in future negotiations. Regarding Iran, they have chosen to elect for strategic bombing as the primary method of instigating regime change. That can work but regularly doesn’t because people who hate their current leaders flock to them when they are the only ones standing up against carpet bombing which hits things like schools and water plants. Outside of that, a million people have been made refugees in Lebanon, and there is a huge risk of civil war there. Obviously there are underlying factors, but critics will rightly point that America and Israel did everything they could to escalate conflicts and avoid peace talks during this period. All so they could remove nukes from a country that famously avoided making them because (before he got blown up) their leader, awful as he could be, saw them as a step towards the total annihilation of his people.

    11. plutoforprez on

      Yes but also who else are we going to vote for next election? Angus Taylor?

      And believe me, I vote outside the major two, but good luck convincing the rest of the country and especially the safe party seats.

    12. keithersp on

      Push electric. We can make ample power here, have ample minerals and can grow ample food.

      We don’t have oil but we can pivot hard away from it.

    13. deadballofdirt on

      >Labor MPs were privately alarmed about the Albanese government’s immediate response to the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran, including a statement that offered unreserved support for **the legally questionable** attack that sparked the war.

      This isn’t legally questionable… It’s illegal under international law. Plain and simple. This analysis is unanimous. Why is The Guardian reporting this like this?

      >Australia was among the first countries to publicly endorse the US and Israel’s strikes via a statement from Albanese, Wong and Marles on the evening of Saturday, 28 February – a matter of hours after the attack.

      >“We support the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent Iran continuing to threaten international peace and security,” the statement read.

      The US claimed to have destroyed Iran’s capacity to build a nuclear weapon. What changed? And why hasn’t Australia expressed greater scrutiny of this complete about-face? Instead, the US tells us something that completely contradicts their previous statements and we obediently take it as fact.

      Labor voters, serious question. Did you intend to elect such a pathetic and morally bankrupt government?

      Now, the federal government has claimed Iran has recently attacked Australia. They have provided no actual evidence to support this. This evidence allegedly came from Israel, which as we’ve seen over the last few years has been a terribly unreliable source of information. Nevertheless, participating in this conflict opens us up to the legitimacy of Iranian attacks. By participating in an(other) unnecessary war, we become legitimate targets in this war. We are all in more danger because Labor simply can’t do the morally right thing.

    16. Magmafrost13 on

      Have they tried not being quiet about it?

      I mean we know how this can go in this country, it’s perfectly possible to just get rid of him as party leader

    20. kimjonguncanteven on

      Don’t know shit about the man or the country’s domestic politics but how do we be like Spain’s PM and call out the US on matters like this?