Operation Epic Mistake.

"Legislation regarding 'right to repair' provisions that would enable soldiers to tend to equipment problems without having to send them back to the manufacturer was also on the cards, though yet to pass."
- They are so focused on profits, they act like John Deere who prevents farmers from repairing their own tractors.

I doubt the other sides are so hamstrung, reckless and foolish.

Western sons and daughters dying for Israel?
Count me out, let them fight their own battles, and I hope they lose.

I'd prefer to run my car on Russian or Iranian oil instead.
Diversity is good, but only when they say so.

“The addiction of the US imperium to waging wars…” is a stupid comment to start with, and a lie. As long as Islamic extremism exists, we had better hope that the US is willing to fight wars in defence of the West - unlike the rest of the West, including Australia, where there is an outrageous tolerance of the threats to our country due to the immigration of the sorts of people that the US is fighting on our behalf.

But, the US might just stop fighting on behalf of the rest of us. Trump is now openly naming Australia, along with Europe, as useless allies. Americans themselves look like they want him replaced with another Obama or someone like Biden.

Starting with Jimmy Carter, the Democrats have to take full responsibility for the Iranian threat to the West that Trump is trying to halt.

As for the rest of Kampmark's bilge, it's all just a cranky opinion. He is no more qualified to give advice (totally unknown outside of this site) than anyone else is. Being a mere lecturer at RMIT makes him no more important or knowledgeable than a pox doctor's clerk.

America saved Australia during WW2. They might not be willing to do it again, crap ally that we are.

>>“The addiction of the US imperium to waging wars…” is a stupid comment to start with, and a lie. As long as Islamic extremism exists, we had better hope that the US is willing to fight wars in defence of the West - unlike the rest of the West, including Australia, where there is an outrageous tolerance of the threats to our country due to the immigration of the sorts of people that the US is fighting on our behalf.<<

OMG people are so clueless.
You think there won't be MORE MUSLIM immigrants coming with this next / current war for Israel?

Can you not see the hypocrisy, you want them to fight Muslims, so more Muslims are displaced, and more so Muslims come.

Cause and effect?

"But, the US might just stop fighting on behalf of the rest of us. Trump is now openly naming Australia, along with Europe, as useless allies"
- He's a suspected pedophile in Israels pocket, supporting endless wars in the M/E for Israel for the last 30 years...

Google 'Is Sunni Islam extremist'
Find all the extremists the West supported.
Google Is Shia Islam extremist'

Who are the extremists, terrorists, Iranian proxies?
Answer = Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis.

Basically just countries / groups PREVENTING Israels genocide, land theft and ethnic cleansing.
- They're the 'terrorists'

Just like Israel labelled Defense For Children International Palestine a terrorist entity because they exposed the rape of children.

Israel-Palestine war: Israel shut down NGO for reporting rape of teenager, ex-US official says
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-ngo-shut-down-reporting-sexual-assault-ex-us

They'd probably label me a terrorist, just for writing this comment.

You bang on about Muslims, but that same engineered resentment as a result of all the other wars for Israel, (and subsequent immigration) is being used to support and justify more wars for Israel that will produce even more Muslim immigrants.

You might as well be saying

'To Israel and U.S.
Please, please, bomb and attack Iran,
Please blow the whole region up, I beg you.
Displace as many Muslims as possible.
WE NEED MORE MUSLIMS TO COME TO AUSTRALIA ASAP!'

DT is not yet ready or mature enough to get past his nappy wearing stage.
Operation Epic Failure perhaps.
How is your hero now DD?

http://x.com/AdameMedia/status/2037409418875146572
Ex-HEAD OF COUNTER-TERRORISM REVEALS AMERICA CREATED AND ARMED ISIS & AL-QAEDA… FOR ISRAEL

Joe Kent:

"US armed Al Qaeda, created ISIS, unleashed a global terror network -just to overthrow Assad and protect Israel"

General Wesley Clark: War in 7 Countries, in 5 Years Speech
http://youtu.be/x17KVOiiGfI
>>About ten days after 9/11 I went through the Pentagon and I saw secretary Rumsfeld and in deputy secretary Wolfowitz I went downstairs just say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who would you used to work for me and one of the generals called me and he said sir you gotta come in you got to come in and talk to me a second I said well you're too busy he said no no he says we've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq this was honor about the 20th of September...
...I said are we still going to war with Iraq and he said oh it's worse than that he said he reached over on his desk he picked up a piece of paper he said I just he said I just got this down from upstairs meaning the secretary defense office today and he said this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years starting with Iraq and then Syria Lebanon Libya Somalia Sudan and finishing off Iran I said is it classified he said yes sir...<<

It was all planned.

Hi ttbn,

“The addiction of the US imperium to waging wars…” is a stupid comment. Is it? Since WW2;

Korean War.
Vietnam War.
Afghan War.
Iraq War.
Now the Iran War.

Plus lots of little wars as well.

You might feel safe where you are, but remember if you were to die in a war, the chances are it would be an American who pulls the trigger, that's a fact.

Trump is just carrying on the long tradition of every American president of killing innocent people. Starting with Washington who killed the Indians, Lincoln who killed each other, to Kennedy who kill the poor people of Asia, now Trump who is killing whoever he wants to.

Trumps a showman, he is resurrecting that old TV show, 'It Could Be You', instead of giving contestants a free fridge, in Trump's version the contestant gets a free bullet to the head.

Binoy could be part of the Comical Ali wing of IRGC propaganda. A10s and now Apaches are active in Iran, and the US and Israel is having no trouble finding targets thanks to their many informants. Iran's terrorist regime is getting smashed.

Hi AC,

The biggest difference between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the US/Israeli bombing of Iran, aside from the boots on the ground, is that the strongest support for the action is from Iranian citizens.

The ignorant idiots have brought the Forum to a standstill with their nonsense; now they are lowering the tone here. Fortunately most of the contributors never respond to criticism - they probably don't even look at it. It's a good thing that, apart from weekends, the articles are renewed daily, preventing the idiots from carrying on day after day, nagging people for having the cheek to hold opinions different from those of the idiots themselves.

ttbn,

I find it confusing that people would be vehemently opposed to nations upholding your right to have an opinion and publicly express it while having sympathies for nations with a history of murdering defenceless dissenting citizens.

Meanwhile the IDF finds (another) weapon cache hidden in a school.

"All of this was found alongside UNHCR markings of the United Nations."

https://youtube.com/shorts/UW2RsOJUu5s?si=X7HijbYrBFtzyKwv

News Flash! Berlin 29th April 1945. From inside the Fuhrer bunker;

"The Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, has announced that the glorious Third Reich through its victorious Wehrmacht has totally annihilated the enemy, who are now in full retreat, and begging to surrender on all fronts."

There will be more news tomorrow 30th April 1945, as the Fuhrer will accept the Allies total surrender, he has announced May 8th 1945 will be the day of total surrender for the Allies.

Binoy could be part of the Comical Ali wing of IRGC propaganda. A10s and now Apaches are active in Iran, and the US and Israel is having no trouble finding targets thanks to their many informants. Iran's terrorist regime is getting smashed.

US, Israeli Attacks Have Damaged Nearly 500 Schools, 300 Health Centers in Iran
http://truthout.org/articles/us-israeli-attacks-have-damaged-nearly-500-schools-300-health-centers-in-iran/

I thought you said you cared deeply for the Iranian people Fester
- Which is it?

"The biggest difference between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the US/Israeli bombing of Iran, aside from the boots on the ground, is that the strongest support for the action is from Iranian citizens."
- No the biggest difference is the mountains of footage showing Israel attacking civilians, killing women and kids, and use of torture, regardless both wars were sponsored by the West starting with overthrowing Ukraine in 2014 and the subsequent western installed government sending a million+ Ukrainians to die, and Israels plans for Iran date back to early nineties, under the Clean Break policy document and the War on Terror (War on Palestinian support)

http://x.com/mgarshad142/status/2037487868126646482
http://x.com/jeremycorbyn/status/2037534543230517541
http://x.com/umyaznemo/status/2037527413429588154

Stop whining ttbn,
Don't get your frilly panties in a bunch just because you want to pile our country with more Muslims and I don't.
You deserved that response and I'd have responded the same way no matter who said what you said, because too many people think bombing them will fix things, and fools like you who wish to clutch to other nations skirts and support the the genocidal baby killers are the reason no-one has petrol and the countries going down the S-Bend.
If you're willing to put your money where your mouth is and tell me you'd happily sent your own kids to Iran to fight the 'Mad Mullahs' then maybe I would've been less abrupt.
But if you can't say that, then you're full of it.
Just want others to die for what you want, for Israel.

Hi AC,

Fester care deeply for the Iranian people, he wants to see all those women and children, old folks etc murdered by Fuhrer Trump and the Zionist Netanyahu get proper burials in mass graves. He may even send flowers, can't be fairer than that.

Hi AC

"US, Israeli Attacks Have Damaged Nearly 500 Schools, 300 Health Centers in Iran"

That might be because the regime uses human shields, just as Hamas and Hezbollah do.

"I thought you said you cared deeply for the Iranian people Fester
- Which is it?"

Tell me, what do you conclude about the humanity of the terrorists using children as human shields? The biggest fear of the average Iranian is that the terrorist theocracy will survive.

Not so many missile and drone attacks now. The regime is finished when Kharg Island gets captured.

Hi Paul,

You might want to compare how the Nazis treated dissenters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfA03JgUovE

with how the Iranians treat dissenters.

https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/human-rights/iran-graphic-images-two-more-hanged-in-public/

Note that most Iranian atrocities are censored because of the horror and depravity they depict.

Fester,

The people you refer to are confused, not you. Like me, you are amazed by their stupidity. I read another person's amazement a few days ago. He wrote, “Why do the Australian left support those who want to kill them?”. And they will be killed, as we all will be, if they don't start supporting their own kind and Western values. They will eventually be eaten by the crocodile when everyone else has been fed to it by the treacherous idiots.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion. But, acknowledgement of the right of all people to express their opinions doesn't mean they have to be listened to nor, more importantly, responded to.

The only opinions I am interested in are mine and those of others who hold the same or similar opinions to mine. I hope that the ‘silent majority’ is waking up. But we have a compulsory preferential voting system that overrides the popular vote.

Few people now question the justification for US action against Iran. Those against have to fall back on the Trump Derangement Syndrome to continue making their noise. They are ignored by Trump and all serious people.

The war against Iran has been bubbling away for years because of the corrupt United Nations, and the unbelievable stupidity of previous American administrations.

It is a just war to save the West. It will go on longer than it needs to if American allies, including Australia, don't get involved. Their refusal to help is shameful.

Hi ttbn,

Being well and truly "safe from the action", you like others are all for war. Is there an American war of aggression you have ever opposed, probably not. I ask all gung-ho types such as yourself, what's YOUR military record?

Why should Australia want a war with Iran? They pose no threat to us. Based on the American claim that Iran was about to develop a nuclear weapon, humm. Seems illogical since Trump claimed in 2025 America had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear capability. This seems like another one of those weapons of mass destruction, (WMD) nonsense. You fell for that one, now you are falling for this one.

p/s Australia could be involved, we could send a gun boat full of old farts, and those fuzzy-wuzzy Iranians could feel the thrust of cold steel! Ah!

Hi Paul,

You obviously hate fascism and oppression, and from what I read of you I see care and kindness toward your fellow human beings. So why do you sympathise with a regime that makes the most fanatical of Nazis look cultured and kind?

"Why should Australia want a war with Iran? They pose no threat to us."

The Iranian regime has sponsored acts of terrorism in Australia, such as the burning of synagogues. With its use of propaganda the regime also spreads hatred around the world. Why was Iran building thousands of missiles, some with a range of 4000km? There is no question that they were enriching Uranium and had more than enough to make a bomb. Why did the Greens support Iran's right to build nuclear weapons when it is the view of the Greens that nuclear weapons are not a deterrent?

The current fuel shortage in Australia is not a result of the war against Iran or the blocking of Hormuz Strait: it is a result of the incompetence and pigheadedness of Australian politicians for decades. They simply will not store the agreed 90 days of fuel, nor will they stop asking a few aborigines and loony-Left activists if we can drill for our own oil. The answer is always no, and the political dropkicks believe in minority, not majority, rule.

One of these fools most people would never have heard of, Julie Collins, minister for agriculture, fisheries and forestry, said we ‘can't predict war’.

We can't predict when lots of nasty things will happen, but we know of them, and we insure ourselves against them; unless you are an Australian politician, apparently.

Australia has the lowest fuel reserves - 30 days. The next lowest is Turkey with 100 days.

Talk about backward. The word describes Australia to a tee.

One anonymous writer (who can blame him for protecting himself because of the way Australia is these days) points out that Albanese is the worst of the worst of the above-mentioned politicians.

Albanese is a “superpower” who has the ability to “set the house on fire”, then burst through the smoke yelling, “I'm here to save you”.

Tomorrow, Albanese will “save” us with like-minded dictators and idiots in the Morrison-invented national “cabinet”. Aided supposedly, by the climate tsar who hates fossil fuel.

"That might be because the regime uses human shields, just as Hamas and Hezbollah do."

It could also be because they're employing the Dahiya Doctrine.
Google? AI Overview: The Dahiya doctrine is an Israeli military strategy of asymmetric warfare designed to deter enemies—specifically non-state armed groups like Hezbollah and Hamas—by employing overwhelming, disproportionate force, including the deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure. Named after the Dahiya suburb of Beirut, which was heavily destroyed by the Israeli military during the 2006 Lebanon War, the doctrine posits that destroying the civilian and economic base of an opponent is necessary to deter future attacks.

http://x.com/IrnaEnglish/status/2036450802886185337
>>The president of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) Pir Hossein Kolivand: Seventeen IRCS bases across the country have been targeted by the aggressor enemy.
Ninety-four ambulances and rescue vehicles were directly hit by enemy missiles.<<

How does targeting medical / ambulances fit into your 'human shield narrative'?

It might also be because they've run out of real military targets and need to be showing to be doing 'something' so they are bombing infrastructure OR it could be that right from the start they've not just been targeting the leadership and the IRGC but also every target possible that would help facilitate a situation where the so called 'haters of the regime' could rise up and take over which was their original plan, I'd be sure that Netanyahu and some in the U.S. are still trying to find a way to achieve this.

"Tell me, what do you conclude about the humanity of the terrorists using children as human shields? The biggest fear of the average Iranian is that the terrorist theocracy will survive."
- Isn't that what America's doing placing all it's troops into 5 star hotels to do 'remote working'? Doesn't Israel put its military headquarters under civilian buildings, does Israel employ, assassinations, torture, rape, ethnic cleaning, genocide, starvation, targeting journalists and children and medical personel.

If you're going to make humanitarian based arguments, isn't it reasonable to apply those standards equally?

"Not so many missile and drone attacks now. The regime is finished when Kharg Island gets captured."
- No, they've still got plenty, they may have used a thirdthe west is running short on some things though.

US and Israel 'burning through' Tomahawk and interceptor missiles in Iran
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-israel-burning-through-tomahawk-interceptor-missiles-iran

Also, it also helps to actually listen to people in Iran...
http://www.youtube.com/live/8SF7zqg5lP8

ttbn,

I'm not confused.

“Why do the Australian left support those who want to kill them?”

Your side of things is acting outraged over the fuel crisis, but it's a bit of a throw off since they would've been even more supportive than Albo of actions that lead to the current situation;
They're upset that we offered Aussie troops up as sacrificial lamb chops to please the U.S. and Israel without even needing a request, as displayed here:

Sky News host clashes with guest on claim Australia was first to back US strikes
http://youtu.be/EjnMmZWffjU

And let's not forget the elephant in the room.

The problem of needing to 'open' the strait of Hormuz is a problem wholly created by U.S. and Israeli actions embarking on awar of choice, a war of aggression.
The Strait wasn't closed prior to the U.S. and Israel attacking them for the second time during negotiations.
And this battle has been planned for decades.

You're looking at nearly 2 million enemy combatants across Iran and Iraq, if you include IRGC, Regular Iranian Army (Artesh), Basij, Reservists, and the Popular Mobilisation Forces in Iraq, and if you add in the Houthi's it might be over 2 million.

Just some thoughts...

If there was a small tax on European/ US crude oil consumers covering the $2 billion odd price tag plus interest of a 1200km pipeline from Kuwait across Saudi Arabia and Egypt (bypassing Jordan) to the Mediterranean Sea from the Arabian Gulf it would cut out the Suez bottle neck and threats from Somalia (and Iran). It would also put Europe and the US in an advantageous position. In future if Iran wanted to rejoin the international community, we could tax them for the trouble they have caused. Branch lines could be paid for by a balance by the host country and the consumers. This could be a win-win all round, benefiting insurance companies and shipping companies too. This would avoid the need to actually fight the Iranians, and we would starve them. In the meantime we can find an alternative to oil. Two/ three pronged attack.

If The Saudi's or Egyptians try to extort Europe/ US then we go back to transporting oil by ship.

We have options but Europe/ US haven't used them allowing the ME to profit and for us to get cheaper oil. If this is no longer an option we can bypass elements of the ME and even eventually the whole ME if necessary.

Hopefully this ME realisation will help them convince Iran that they need to take a broader view.