Anthony Albanese confirms Australian navy personnel on US submarine that sank Iranian vessel

> “We wouldn’t normally confirm such an issue, but given our [National Security Committee] meetings and the public interest, I can confirm that there were three Australian personnel on board that vessel,” he said.

> “I can confirm also, though, that no Australian personnel have participated in any offensive action against Iran.”

I’m unsure of technicalities but it seems impossible to be part of a ships crew and not be involved with any combat a ship is engaged with by definition

>”I can confirm also, though, that no Australian personnel have participated in any offensive action against Iran.”

I wonder how that sentence matches up with “US sub sinks Iranian warship that was partaking in exercise and was little threat”. Probably sitting in the cuckchair in the corner, jerking it to war crimes.

That ship was coming from a training exercise from India, it wasn’t as if it was deployed for action, imagine just being a seaman on a boat and getting blown up. And please don’t come back at me saying they’re all part of the extremist ideology. You can be in the armed forces for multiple reasons like job security, especially in a country like Iran where the majority of the workforce is employed by the government. Tragic that we had to be a part of this.

They should be fucking ashamed of themselves. Didn’t even give a non-threatening ship a chance to surrender.

Yes I realise that they wouldn’t be making the decisions, but they should still be ashamed of themselves, as I would be if I was involved in the murder of a hundred odd people.

I know it isn’t really feasible, but something like a referendum should be held to decide on whether or not we enter into any war

It should be the Australian people as a whole who decide, not a group of sheltered nepo babies

I feel like all the people cheering this on would be singing a different tune entirely if a Chinese sub came and sank one of our ships under the same circumstances. Blowing up an unarmed warship leaving a training exercise isn’t exactly much of a victory.

The only country that comes out of this incident looking good is Sri Lanka who rescued the sailors and provided a second Iranian ship with safe harbour.

Let’s build a security alliance with Russia and China, they love international law and back up their allies 💪

Time to remove all Australian personnel from any foreign military that is involved in this war started by the pedo president of the USA to try and distract everyone from his involvement of the Epstein files along with trying to line his pockets with money from the oil he illegally gain with his invasion and removal of the president of Venezuela

I’m old enough to remember the “regime change” they did in Iraq and Afghanistan. They wasted trillions of dollars to achieve nothing except returning the Taliban to power and creating ISIS in Iraq.

We have to stop being lackeys for the US/Israeli childkillers

Pretty sure this is part of AUKUS where we have to train our naval officers how to operate on nuclear submarines.

It just occurred to me that Trumps gonna hold back those subs we bought/planned to buy in exchange for us going to war alongside them. I fucking hate this shit man. Fuck the subs!

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Insiders reveal army personnel have live rounds in their guns when on active combat deployment!

OMG! 😱🤔🐂💩

Turning not news into infoslop!

Well done!

AUKUS is dragging us closer to disaster.

Will the Defence Dept. recall them, and investigate them for war crimes?

“Just following orders” is not a defence.