Alon makes some valid points about the proud history of Persian culture, but oddly I think he has made the same mistake as Trump in his assessment of Iran’s position – the assumption that it is ruled by rational self-interested actors willing to negotiate an agreed resolution of the conflict and abide by the outcome. For the Iranian regime, violence against its enemies is not a means to an end; it is an end in itself. In particular, it is committed to the destruction of Israel and its citizens. “Death to America” is virtually an official slogan.

Likewise, Trump seems to have believed that the threat and reality of military and economic harm would persuade the regime to either concede or at least negotiate.

Only comprehensive and permanent regime change could produce what most people of good faith would like to see in Iran – the end of repression and impoverishment of its citizens; cessation of its violence within and against its neighbours, especially its use of proxies to attack Israel; and the end of its uranium enrichment program. This hasn’t happened. So on this point, I agree with Alon – Iran emerged as the “de facto winner” in this confrontation

And the survey says...

That 3 out of 4 Aussies would deliberately go and stand in dog shite...

- This is what I'm getting from the other responses -

ttbn, mhaze, Rhian.
It seems only ateday decided, 'No, I'm not going to stand in it like the other morons.'

For those who were stupid enough to be convinced into thinking 'regime change' was a good idea...

Fuel crisis leaves councils facing cost blowouts, rate hikes and spending cuts
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-14/fuel-crisis-leaves-sa-councils-facing-cost-blowouts/106552638

Plastic packaging price pain could push up costs for shoppers on everything from milk to make-up
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-29/plastic-price-pain-hits-inflation-woolies-coles-milk-bottles/106615694

Soaring petrol prices force tourism operators to introduce surcharges
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-28/fuel-diesel-shortage-surcharge-tourism-operators/106610974

- You supported something which increased the cost of EVERYTHING, Like a TAX ON EVERYONE!

Inflation jumps to 4.6% in Australia as Iran war fuel shock begins to bite
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/29/inflation-increase-australia-rba-reserve-bank-interest-rates-fuel-iran

Two more rate rises ahead as inflation pain grips Australia
http://www.afr.com/markets/debt-markets/two-more-rate-rises-ahead-as-inflation-pain-grips-australia-20260428-p5zrru

So, when people are losing their jobs, and their homes are being taken by the banks, and when single mums can't afford all their weekly homebrand crap or have to choose between putting fuel in the car or eating decent meals, we can all thank you morons, for being dumb enough to be cheerleaders for something as stupid as shooting both one's feet off.

Moral to the story...

Most Aussies are on 'Team Let's Go Stand in Dog Shite'
They don't even know what's good for them.
And that makes them 'Useful idiots'
Hitlers mate Netanyahu would be proud.

You lot think whatever is going on over there is more important than food on the table over here.
Aren't even capable of putting Aussie interests first.

It seems some are of the view that they are okey-dokey with a bunch of apocalyptic millenarians getting access to a nuclear weapon so long as they can save a few cents on petrol.

"It seems some are of the view that they are okey-dokey with a bunch of apocalyptic millenarians getting access to a nuclear weapon so long as they can save a few cents on petrol."

- I take it you haven't been paying much attention to he U.S. and Israeli government lately mhaze...

You know what the problem with you is mhaze,
- You can never ever be honest because you can never be unbiased.
All you really have is repeating tired false narratives.
... just like an uncontrolled automatic regurgitation.

It's like when someone argues:

'There's too many immigrants'
- And some other idiot auto-responds 'You're just racist!'

Like the only part these brainwashed imbeciles registered and immediately objected to like trained monkeys was 'the connected race aspect of immigration' not the valid issue that we may in fact have brought in too many people too quickly without the housing to accommodate them.

Or if someone questions the efficiency of renewables...
Auto-whinge = 'You're a climate denier!'

Or if someone says 'It's unhealthy to be so overweight'
Auto-whinge = 'You're just fatphobic!'

Or is someone criticises Israel's unrestrained killing of civilians
Auto-whinge = 'You're an anti-Semite!'

Or maybe you think Trump might be mixed up with Epstein pedophilia
Auto-whinge = 'You're a conspiracy theorist!'

Or if you criticise Trumps actions and policies and how they negatively impact others
Auto-whinge = 'You've got Trump Derangement Syndrome'

Criticise or challenge any policy promoting gay agenda
'You're a homophobic, Transphobic bigot and a Xenophobe.

Are you just a trained monkey regurgitating auto-whinges?

Do you understand the more U.S. and Israel act like unhinged warmongering lunatics hell bent on destroying Iran, the more valid Iran's reasoning for considering possessing a nuclear deterrent becomes?

They seem to be doing pretty good without one.

Trumps a halfwit.
He claims complete victory but begs/abuses his allies, all while desperately wanting an off ramp.
Was kicked out of the briefing room during the botched enriched uranium recovery operation, because he was yelling and screaming and they had to figure out how to manage the situation.

They're in trouble if they lose both the house and the senate in the midterms.

Anyway, just like any nation, there are factions for and against things.
Your support for 'regime change' is just helping the hardliners in Iran that argue that they should get a nuclear weapon.

Anyway, back to Australia.

Four charts that paint a worrying picture for global fertiliser prices
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-24/charts-paint-worrying-picture-global-fertiliser-prices/106590152

I'm not wrong about what I've stated.
3 out of 4 of you, my fellow Australians, have deliberately shat the bed.

You hold a position that does untold harm to our country,
Probably none of you cared that there would a price that everyone in the country would have to pay,
Just so you could express an opinion that likely Sky Channel with it's 24/7 anti-semitic hysteria or Murdoch media inserted into your stupid heads.

You three: 'I don't follow that bloody leftist crap media!'
- YOU GULLIBLE FOOLS.

By yourselves just when taken as a sample poll, you're quite capable of sending the nation down the S-bend,
with the same level of idiocy often complained about yourselves.

Are you lot dual Australian / Israeli citizens?
I'm trying to think of a valid reason why you'd support something that had the potential to have a serious adverse affect on other citizens and our nations prosperity.

Why don't you all go smear yourselves with your own excrement?
- If you did that, you'd be the only ones affected by it.
But your positions here affect everyone.

Did you ask your friends, family, neighbours if they were ok with paying more for everything?

I didn't steal from your wallets or take a shite in your beds, but somehow you all thought doing the same to me would be okay.

Just saying, someone has to.

http://youtu.be/dKnjxT5HRJQ

And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?
Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression.
And where once you had the freedom to object, think, and speak as you saw fit,
you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.
How did this happen?
Who's to blame?
Well, certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
I know why you did it.
I know you were afraid.
Who wouldn't be?
War, terror, disease.
There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense.
Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now High Chancellor Donald Trump.