Australia and the “Epstein Coalition”. Invasion of Iran a disaster

It is only day five of the war, but the epic stupidity of Australia’s cowardly support for the US’s Israeli invasion of Iran is now clearly evident. Michael West reports.

We are ruled by fools and sycophants. The illegal, unprovoked invasion of Iran is not just ordinary stupidity. This is stupidity on a grand, stratospheric scale.

Israel’s propaganda that the Iranians would sprinkle rose petals at the feet of the invaders did not come true. In fact, it has already been demolished.

Instead of bringing freedom and democracy – ‘regime change’ – we have brought chaos, possibly a world war and certainly the destruction of the Middle East. As we write, the world economy is taking a heavy hit; Oil prices are plummeting, energy prices are about to rise, and the inevitable specter of inflation and recession looms.

And this didn’t have to happen.

This was an election war. Even if the “Epstein Coalition”, as the Iranian media aptly nicknamed the occupiers, had not killed 168 Iranian schoolgirls on the first day, ‘peace through force’ would never have happened.

Quite the opposite. Iran’s illegal and unprovoked invasion has hardened the resolve of Iranians who support their regime, mourning their dead in their hundreds of thousands across the country and chanting Death to America.

Where was the advice?

The Epstein Coalition killed the Ayatollah, a moderate who was actually against nuclear energy. Hadn’t Albo and Penny Wong received advice from the State Department that attacking Iran was foolishness, that anti-regime protesters were a minority, that the pre-invasion protests were a psychopath of Mossad and the CIA, that Iran could attack US proxy states in the region, that this invasion would be a Brobigdadgi-style mistake?

Or did they ignore the advice in favor of the Washington regime compromised by the Epstein pedophile scandal?

Now we see Israel and its supporters feebly hypocritical whining about Iran attacking the Gulf countries. Is this our only moral defence? We have been supporting these regimes for decades: Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – all US proxy states – now the regimes are unraveling, oil prices are rising, inflation and recession are beckoning globally.

Footage emerges of local people in Bahrain cheering on Iranian missiles. Were DFAT and our politicians not aware of the widespread anxiety about American imperialism in the Gulf countries?

So what did they expect Iran to do in the face of this existential threat? Don’t blow up American bases and infrastructure while the US is attacking them; After the US betrayed them while still offering significant concessions on nuclear enrichment at the negotiating table – all to avoid war? This is war.

Australia, USA’s sycophants

But on Saturday night, Australia emerged from the first global blocs to back Donald Trump and his preposterous “Operation Epic Rage”, a would-be pedophile blackmailed by genocidal benign Benjamin Netanyahu and led as a pony at a fairground show.

It was immediately labeled “Operation Epstein Fury”. The rising, craven stupidity is hard to fathom. Both major parties support it. First Albo, then Angus Taylor runs to pull Donald’s rope. Later, Pauline Hanson also came, congratulating and praising Netanyahu. We are ruled by fools and sycophants.

Faulty defense of brutality

To address the empty rhetoric of the pro-war lobby, criticizing this war does not mean supporting the regime in Iran. Defenders of US-Israeli atrocities are engaged in a swarm of social media bots peddling the argument that if you criticize the occupation, “you are a supporter of Islamist terrorism.”

This is the 2026 version of “You are a Hamas supporter” if you oppose the genocide in Gaza.

The cold facts of this fiasco; that regime change did not work, that Iran did not want this war, that Iran appeared to be extremely well prepared, even winning the war, that the Australia-backed Epstein Coalition was supporting war crimes every day: blowing up hospitals, schools and civilian infrastructure.

This is already a lost battle.

The plain truth is that regime change wars are a demonstrable failure. Vietnamese. Iraq. Afghanistan. Iraq: One million dead, irreversible regional stability. Trillions of dollars were spent in Afghanistan over 20 years, four US presidents, six Australian prime ministers; All to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.

And here we are, busybodies of the world, doing it again.

Who could ever negotiate in good faith with the United States or Israel again? Iran did not want this war. Iran has not attacked another country in 300 years.

The US lured them to the negotiating table, then killed their leaders without warning. This is reminiscent of last year’s 12-day war between Israel and the United States, in which they deceived them on the basis of good faith talks, then killed them and now played the victim.

What did they expect Iran to do in the face of this existential threat?

The record speaks for itself. The USA is the biggest invader of other countries in history. Last year alone, IsraelIt attacked Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia, Malta and Greece.

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The sum of six illegal attacks by sovereign nations plus three illegal attacks in international waters equals 9. In a year. And now their puppets, America, are re-occupying Lebanon, seizing more territory as they fight against Iran.

Albo, what are you doing?

We know who the war mongers are. We are war merchants. But in his strange statement of support, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was the quickest to leave the blocs of all allies over the weekend. make a false statement.

The claim, echoed by the Lib-Lab establishment’s usual warmongers, is that Iran is guilty of attacks on Australian soil, citing allegations of an attack on a delicatessen in Bondi.

Common sense aside, why would Iran commit an act of terrorism in a deli in Bondi? Senior cop admits there is no evidence of this.

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There is also an old claim that Iran will produce nuclear weapons. The US and Israel’s nuclear risk claims have been so debunked that they are now a joke.

Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to start a war against Iran for 30 years. days away, weeks away, months away from nuclear missiles.

And they were at the negotiating table Again When Epstein’s forces killed them.

Propaganda

We now see mainstream media condemning ‘illegal attacks’ against Israel and the Gulf countries. However, the ‘victim card’ has been issued. Worldwide, outside of old media propaganda, there is little sympathy for Israel’s destruction of Gaza, the slaughter of between 72,000 and 700,000 Palestinians, and the theft of more land in the West Bank every day.

It will continue. The media and political classes have failed so spectacularly that they can only try to salvage their authority with more propaganda.

The heartbreaking news about schoolgirls murdered in Iran is an example of this. Hamas’ “40 beheaded babies” and “gang rapes” filled headlines in the West on October 8, 2023. However, the actual murders (the killing of 170 schoolgirls) were not mentioned much. Yes, a mention perhaps, but a side story, buried, without the outrage headlines.

Can’t handle the truth?

Is the truth so hard to deal with? Isn’t it obvious to everyone except the brainwashed defender of the Epstein lobby that Israel (the government, the state) is the problem here?

Netanyahu has earned his ambition to drag America into a war against Iran, and if you follow the money, while world stock markets are shaking, the stock market in Tel Aviv is also rising, full of arms companies.

Meanwhile, the ASX is also saving, so our savings are decreasing. Oil prices are increasing, so energy prices and inflation are also increasing. While Iran’s ally, the Houthis, opened fire again in the Red Sea, on the other side of the Arabian peninsula, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, blocking a large part of the world’s oil supply.

Higher prices in India and China will mean higher import prices and inflation around the world.

No lessons were learned from history; in fact, they were spectacularly brushed aside.

Michael West was founded Michael West Media Focusing on public interest journalism in 2016, particularly the increasing power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor for Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and was even once a stockbroker.