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The Albanese Labor Government has just committed Australians to another US-led forever war :(
2026-03-10
greens.org.au
The announcement today from the Albanese Labor Government to send an E-7A Wedgetail aircraft to the Gulf and provide medium-range air-to-air missiles to the UAE shows Australia has been fully dragged into another US forever war.

Nearly 100 Australian military personnel will be sent to the Gulf this week with the military equipment.

This follows the illegal war launched by the US and Israel on Iran over a week ago that has already escalated, causing chaos across the region and across the global economy.

Senator Larissa Waters, Australian Greens Leader said:

“Australians do not want to get dragged into Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war on Iran. :(

“Labor shouldn’t be sending troops to help a military that’s killed 150 schoolchildren in a primary school bombing. That will only escalate an illegal conflict that’s already spiralling out of control, and leave Australia trapped in yet another forever war.

“Every day Trump and Netanyahu’s demands of Australia keep growing. It was refuelling US spy planes yesterday, a recon jet and missiles today, and could be ever more troops tomorrow. Labor has no red lines when it comes to appeasing Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.

“The Government’s assertion that our personnel and equipment will only be used for defence is a fig leaf. Our presence at best will free up other facilities for more offence, and at worst, we will be further dragged into offensive action, risking the lives of 100 Australian personnel.

“Labor, the Liberals and One Nation should listen to the overwhelming majority of Australians who do not want to be dragged into Trump and Netanyahu’s latest forever war.

“To keep civilians safe we should be urging peace, not sending missiles.”

Senator David Shoebridge, Greens Spokesperson on Defence and Foreign Affairs, said:

“Labor has learnt nothing from Iraq and Afghanistan, and so are joining with the Coalition and One Nation to follow the US into another forever war.

“Every military asset Labor sends to the Gulf frees up US and Israeli assets to continue to the illegal attacks on Iran.

“This request for Australian troops may well have been sent from the Gulf, but it originated in Washington.

“Almost every other nation is managing to get its citizens out of the Gulf without sending missiles and troops.

“This troop deployment is directly contrary to Australia’s national interest, it places Australian personnel directly in harm’s way when the UAE is not an ally or a critical trading partner. It is however, in the national interest of the United States, which is why Labor is doing it.

“We did not send dozens of Australian troops and missiles to Lebanon when it was under attack, despite the tens of thousands of Lebanese Australians there in desperate need of protection.

“It's been just over a week and the mission creep and deception from Labor is frightening. Labor has gone from supporting the war politically, to having Australian personnel part of US military attacks, to now putting troops on the ground.

“If we want to protect people in the region, the best thing the Albanese Government could do is call for an end to the war, withdraw support and stop all military engagement.”

Labor helping extend this illegal war means Albanese is now taking a portion of the responsibility for higher petrol prices, higher inflation from transport and fertilisers costs, higher interest rates, and higher mortgages & rentals.

From now on, every time you are paying too much for everything, it's TACO, the war criminal Netanyahu, and yes man Albanese's fault.

The Gaza war of 2 years flattened a country of 2 million.
Iran has 92 million. Therefore it will take 92 years.

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No boots on the ground (yet). Iran will run out of drones and missiles soon. A few weeks at most until they won't even have a weapon that can reach our troops in the UAE.

whiteknight wrote on Mar 11^th, 2026 at 3:15am:

The Albanese Labor Government has just committed Australians to another US-led forever war :(
2026-03-10
greens.org.au

The nuttiness of the Greens on national security knows no bounds, which is why they should be ignored when criticising the timely decision to give Australian military assistance to the United Arab Emirates to help fend off Iranian attacks on a country currently harbouring 24,000 Australians.

The Albanese government’s move to provide an E-7A Wedgetail and advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles to the UAE is clearly in the national interest for several reasons. Firstly, because Iran has fired more than 1500 rockets and drones at the UAE since the conflict began, a handful of which have penetrated defences to hit hotels, residences and commercial ports among others.

Many Australians are in those hotels, watching the fireworks and praying they don’t get hit while awaiting commercial flights to resume and bring them home.

The Greens claim that sending the Wedgetail plane and missiles to the UAE shows Australia is entering another “forever war” at the behest of the US, which puts military personnel in harm’s way when Australia is not even an ally of the UAE. In fact, the purpose of a month-long deployment of the E-7A Wedgetail is to act as a long-range radar to detect, track and intercept incoming missiles and drones. In other words, to help protect the Australians stranded in the UAE. The air-to-air missiles Australia is providing will not be used to attack Iran, but will instead be used to intercept and shoot down those rockets and drones fired by Iran at the UAE.

The UAE also hosts up to 100 Australian troops at the Al Minhad air base that for many years has served as the operational headquarters for Australian operations across the Middle East.
CAmeron Stewart

35% of Australia's fertilisers are shipped through the Strait of Hormuz. Global Food Shortages ahead.

Start planning for TACO, Netanyahu, and Albanese's forever war.

Start stockpiling / planting.

No - it is an Islamist led forever war that some parts of the world have finally woken up to.

The tenets of their ideology - Islamists that is - are that they are the divine ones to control the earth and all in it, by their god's will, and that means, in practice, that they have a right and a duty by holy dictate to conquer every other group that does not accord strictly with their ideas and tenets even if those groups follow the same religion etc but in a different way = heretics, then they dispose of those unbelievers via death, enslavement, or banishment so as to purify the Caliphate they are creating.

If you can't see the comparison there with every massively genocidal regime on earth to date, you never will - but never forget the added dimension of this fanatical religious system of belief. Every mullah in Australia right now says that it is the divine destiny of Islam to rule the Earth and all in it, and that Islam is the only pure religion.

To this very moment - the Ayatollah regime in Iran believes with every fibre of its being that it will win this war.... that Allah will somehow suddenly do something dramatic for them and wipe out their enemies... it is their divine right to receive that victory ... and even when defeated time and again, they will never give it up.

Stand by and watch your country steadily subsumed by this madness if you want. If you want some primitive sand licker to control your life - go for it - keep supporting them.

Trump will soon lose interest in this illegal war.

He has a very short attention span.

a losing war verse trump + epstein

which way will trump flop.

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Ai_Took_Our_Jobs wrote on Mar 11^th, 2026 at 10:17am:

a losing war verse trump + epstein

which way will trump flop.

He needs fresh distractions from the Trump-Epstein Files.

He'll probably attack Cuba next.

Looks like he's forgotten about Greenland already.

Look out, Donald. They're coming after you.

US-Iran war live updates: Iran’s chilling move to bring down the world

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A senior Iranian official has said Donald Trump should “watch out for himself – lest he be eliminated”.

The chilling threat came after the US President threatened “death, fire and fury” if the Strait of Hormuz — a vital oil passageway — was closed by Iran.

Speaking of which - watch out for those mines.

Iran begins laying mines in Strait of Hormuz, sources say

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Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of all crude oil, according to two people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue.

The mining is not extensive yet, with a few dozen having been laid in recent days, the sources said. But Iran still retains upward of 80% to 90% of its small boats and mine layers, one of the sources said, so its forces could feasibly lay hundreds of mines in the waterway.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which now effectively controls the strait along with Iran’s traditional navy, has the capability to deploy a “gauntlet” of dispersed mine-laying craft, explosive-laden boats and shore-based missile batteries, CNN has reported.

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President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday that “if Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY!”

Yes, I'm sure they're going to do what you say, Donald.

You stupid, raving idiot. How long is it going to take (and how many more lives will be lost) before you wake up to the fact that you've 'bitten off more than you can chew'?

As many as 150 US troops wounded so far in Iran war

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/many-150-us-troops-wounded-so-far-iran-war-sources-say-2026-03-10/

Roll on midterms.

TACO as a lame Duck !

Ai_Took_Our_Jobs wrote on Mar 11^th, 2026 at 10:26am:

I think it's more a case of 'at least' rather than 'as many as'.

There's no way in the world that Trump is releasing accurate figures.

Ai_Took_Our_Jobs wrote on Mar 11^th, 2026 at 10:26am:

Who are these 'sources'?

And how many US service personnel get injured in a typical month?

I'm prepared to bet that if there wasn't any oil in the Middle East then Donald Trump probably couldn't even find Iran on a map of the world.

"Iran? Where's that? Never heard of the place".

Actually, I'm not too sure he could find it right now if someone asked him.

Funny how Russia has been waging war in Ukrane longer than it took it to drive the Nazis from Moscow to Berlin - but it Trump and Israel bombs Iran for 2 weeks it is a 'forever war'.

Carl D wrote on Mar 11^th, 2026 at 12:37pm:

I doubt you could .

Carl D wrote on Mar 11^th, 2026 at 12:37pm:

There are other oil rich countries but only Iranian regime idiots organizing big crowds chanting "death to America".

Frank wrote on Mar 11^th, 2026 at 12:45pm:

Funny how Russia has been waging war in Ukrane longer than it took it to drive the Nazis from Moscow to Berlin - but it Trump and Israel bombs Iran for 2 weeks it is a 'forever war'.

Kievan regime is another bunch of idiots who organized crowds chanting "oskalyaku na gilyaku", which is equivalent of "death to Russians".
Both Tehran Ayatollahs and Kievan neo-Nazis invoked Death and She came.

Amazing, isn't it?

Governments (including our own) never seem to have any money for helping the homeless, the sick (healthcare and hospitals) or for cost of living relief but they always seem to have a "forever" supply of money to fight their "forever" wars.

Disgraceful stuff.

Carl D wrote on Mar 11^th, 2026 at 1:09pm:

"The Battle of the Money Bags and the Money Boxes" is a fantastical 1570 engraving by Pieter van der Heyden based on a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

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Divitiae Faciunt Fures

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