Australia commits to yet another perilous American military adventure

Slowly moving towards the inevitable: Australia get into a fight He is again in the Middle East – this time to fight Iran – in another war in which he is not threatened.

Prime Minister Albanese said the following after the phone call with US President Donald Trump two nights ago: we sent our soldiers He traveled to the Middle East to join the conflict.

Ostensibly the goal is to protect the United Arab Emirates from Iranian drones and missiles, but it is not stated why this is our responsibility. And now we join us wear, in a war we are not leading, we are in our usual position: under the rule of our imperial masters. In this case, the United States, as it usually is now, except now, by proxy, its own Political masters, Israel.

Because this is Israel’s war. shaking the american dog and we are but fleas thrown everywhere, most likely to come into the kingdom.

If we sacrifice our youth in this needless war, as now seems increasingly likely, as America prepares to “lead troops on the ground” in the Iranian land war, it will be the most egregious and pointless war in Australia’s long history of blind obedience.

Australia has previously sent men to this ancient land to fight the Ottoman Empire, the Third Reich, the Iraqis (twice) and Afghanistan. In none of these conflicts was Australia even remotely threatened, but we lost the cream of our youth in droves, dying on those hard, unforgiving sands.

Only the war against the Reich, the Nazis and the Germans in the Second World War could be called even remotely fair, but still Churchill tried to divert our troops in 1941; brave Rats fled from Tobruk to Burma – echoing the earlier valor of Gallipoli – to defend the British Raj, not the Empire of Japan, which was marching to our door via the Kokoda Trail. In 1941 Prime Minister Curtin separated Australia from Britain’s broken defense shield and then began to confront a new imperialist overlord, the United States.

What a poisoned chalice this new alliance was from the very beginning.

For although Australia had seasoned desert veterans in the jungles of New Guinea supporting our enlisted men, the valiant “Chocos” returned to the sea with over 30,000 Japanese in Australia and served the Japanese in World War II. They suffered terrible losses while inflicting their first defeat in World War II. They did this with virtually no assistance from US forces, except for some minor mopping-up operations in the final month of the unimaginably difficult 8-month campaign.

General Douglas MacArthur inevitably said this when fleeing the Philippines in 1941: “I will be back”. Instead, Australia, as a nation, returned to dutifully follow the United States in each of its foolish foreign adventures after the World War, America’s proxy wars with China in Korea and Vietnam. From Vietnam’s perspective, America’s quixotic war against Communism involved the drafting of our precious youth through the death lottery, the birth date vote. And to all his oil-fueled adventures in the Middle East. Three times in the last 35 years.

Now Australia have taken their first few shaky steps towards the fourth. One more potentially incendiary than the others. Will this include enlisting our youth in another war where our nation is not threatened? Considering the current fuel prices, is it a war that is directly against the national interests of our citizens and our nation? Is this the beginning of another world war, this time with nuclear weapons in the hands of at least two of the sides?

Even though it is not in Iran’s hands. Although America and Israel carried out their first attack on Iran due to nuclear weapons, the United Nations monitoring body, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), he said, is not even close to producing the weapons that Trump said he destroyed in military strikes six months ago.

According to reports that day, weapons that Iran does not have, is not close to owning, and is close to convincing the US in talks in Oman Before Trump attacks. The day before America’s first Tomahawk struck the Iranian capital, Tehran, assassinating its leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as well as dismembering 175 little Iranian girls go to school that day – this second US war crime confirmed today.

United Nations experts condemned this first unprovoked attack and this atrocity, saying it was a violation of international law. Australian Prime Minister Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong hedged unconvincingly about its legality. claiming that It’s up to America to decide on this issue.

If a so-called democracy like Australia openly claims that only the murderer (if it is America) can pass judgment on his or her alleged misdeeds, we can be sure that the world-based order has collapsed. Looks like it might get better now. As long as we switch to a rules-based order.

Worse still, instead of being tired of winning with Donald, Australia are on this dealer’s less cunning side. We have committed to spending billions of dollars on AUKUS, a military agreement that includes sending hundreds of billions of dollars to protect this mob boss; This involves sending hundreds of billions of dollars, in fairly modest annual increments, to nuclear submarines and untested aircraft that we have publicly decided we will never buy. What a deal!

The money we send to the US is so large that perhaps Australia’s most distinguished bureaucrat ever, John Menadue wrote this weekAustralia cannot afford to pay America’s annual imperial tribute, nor can it afford what is needed to defend ourselves.

wrote Menadue:

‘The cost of AUKUS will cost approximately 60 times our annual defense budget. ‘We cannot have AUKUS and a sovereign defense capability.’

“Washington is run by dangerous criminals. But our government is lining up our support for these lunatics for fear of being cornered by the sick Murdoch media and Aussie Americans” – John Menadue https://t.co/ikff3WPtYx

— Michael Pascoe (@MichaelPascoe01) March 10, 2026

We are at their mercy. This is the gaudy, gilded, gold-leafed poisoned chalice that we have chosen to condemn ourselves and future generations to sip from. That’s why Anthony Albanese takes mocking selfies with Trump and makes late-night calls to plunge our nation into more war, meekly following this alleged pedophile into the abyss his madness may lead to.

We should not commit our soldiers to another war in the Middle East.

Iran’s theocratic regime is dangerous to the Independent A.Australia believes in equality, fairness, secularism and democracy. But its enemy, Israel, is another theocratic regime currently committing genocide.

We should not choose sides to appease our colonial overlords in a war in which we have no role. It’s time to smash AUKUS, wipe out everything we’ve wasted, put the money back into Australia and forge a new and independent path. Someone who does not sacrifice our treasure, our dignity, and our devalued self-esteem.

Let’s not waste another golden generation in another futile war of aggression. Another madness that will once again shed the blood of our youth on the ever-thirsty sands of the Holy Land.

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