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    Federal government tight-lipped on claims Australians were aboard US sub that sank Iranian warship

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    2. macona-coffee on

      So are we at war now?
      When will we learn to stop following the Americans into endless wars????

    3. CrankyGrumpyWombat on

      some inside tip for the journo to ask that question or what because i wouldn’t have expected that?

    4. tecdaz on

      The ridiculous Greens will pounce on any straw to rend their garments and gnash their teeth about America.

      Note their policy is to stay in ANZUS, however. Including seconding military personnel to US forces, presumably. Even they can’t go so far as to break our alliance with America.

    5. RaeseneAndu on

      Fun fact, even the Germans in WWII used to rescue sailors from ships their subs sank… up until the USA attacked the sub carrying survivors from the Laconia. The Americans today are more evil than the most famously evil army in recent history.

    6. Worried_Blacksmith27 on

      why the fuck is this even a serious question? it will, quite rightly, never be answerable. The standard of journalism in this country is an order of magnitude below pathetic.

    7. Snck_Pck on

      And they should be tight lipped. This is a need to know basis and we do not need to know.

    8. walkingmelways on

      The cowardly “foreign minister” that lies about Iran starting a war that was in fact started by the US and Israel, and fails to stand up for murdered civilians, is not to be trusted on jack shit. Wong is worse than useless. People have died through her and Albo’s negligence and cowardice.

    9. ComprehensiveBid2598 on

      Fun fact: Royal Navy subs fly the Jolly Roger after a kill. There is a photo of HMS Conquerer flying the pirate flag after sinking the Belgrano in the Falklands War.
      I’m sure Hegseth would love that tradition!

    10. Turbulent_Ad3045 on

      Good luck getting the government to ever answer a question of this nature ever. 0 need for us or anyone else to know.

    11. Ric0chet_ on

      Why are we getting so particular with what “some military members” might be doing doing with the country that we are paying $300 billion dollars for submarines (we aren’t getting) who design our latest fighter jet, our main battle tank, our long range strike missiles, our biggest training partner, and provide us with the latest intelligence services. The same country we fought with in the middle east already? It just feels like fake outrage. If we didn’t like them so much how come we partnered with them for so long

    12. Savings_Dot_8387 on

      No shit they can’t answer that. That would be a threat to national security no?

    14. TheQuantumSword on

      Centre right scum, the lot of them. Can we have some left soon? It’s been generations.

    15. jm_leviathan on

      Even I didn’t expect the strategic recklessness of AUKUS to be thrown into such sharp relief this quickly.

      Between this government’s groveling inability to criticise Donald Trump for threatening to annex Canada and Greenland, his illegal executions in the Caribbean, his illegal wars against Venezuela and now Iran, now extending to the direct involvement of ADF personnel in combat action and as such at variance with the ostensible policy position of the Australian government, it’s clear that Australia has already been reduced (or rather, has willingly reduced itself) to the vassal status that we are apparently meant to fear in relation to China. The pantomime performance of Wong et al. claiming that the legality of Washington’s actions is a matter for Washington would be comical if it were not so grotesque.

      Donald Trump’s treatment of Spain in relation to their sovereign decision making in this crisis should serve as a wake-up call to this government about the strategic recklessness of allowing the Americans to embed themselves here and incorporate us into their war plans. Marles and Albanese’s protestations that our commitments to AUKUS do not preclude Australian sovereign decision-making in matters of war and peace were remarkably naive at the time; they now seem positively ridiculous.