So, I'm looking at our clown leaders and trying to figure out what message they're sending...

Albo was the first off the blocks to give his thumbs up for Trumps war of aggression attacking and killing the Iranian Supreme leader and his family in their own home...

And now

Chris Bowen declares rush on jerry cans ‘un-Australian’ as he urges end to panic buying of petrol
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-19/anthony-albanese-iran-fuel-prices-budget-jim-chalmers/106464080

First to cheer on the attack, first to cower away (sensibly)
look over there at the trees, look down at the ground
You need help America, nope sorry - no can do.
We're not looking to be your cannon fodder on a suicide mission, no.
But we hope it works out, tootles.

This Chris Bowen bloke..
Who is he to define what is and isn't Australian?
Was this bloke absent for the great Covid toilet roll rush

'Send out a warning to try and scare them, tell 'em their insurance might be voided if the keep mower fuel at home'
'Tell 'em their all un-Australian',

And I'm thinking to myself 'these morons supported firing the opening shots that didn't just kill the leader of the country and his family, but also a double tap strike on a girls school and their parents when they rushed to save them'....

They said 'No-one could have predicted Iran's response...'
OMG

And I think to myself 'What did they think OPERATION TRUE PROMISE 4' meant?
Did they not see what Iran did last time, and what they said they would do if there was a next time?

And now they're telling me 'do not buy extra fuel, do not prepare for 'just in case''

What did they expect Iran to do.

Thrown themselves on the ground and roll around in a puddle of their own soilings, like Albo did the moment he was asked for help

CLOWNS

Hi Paul,

You might claim that the murdering psychopath was created by the US and Israel, but I think that amounts to victim blaming.

"You can't kill innocent women and children and then claim moral justification."

On that basis there would be no moral justification for responding to any act of aggression with lethal force, as with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. What might make the deaths immoral is deliberate targeting of innocent people. Iran does that as a matter of policy, but that would seem to be excused by you because it's all the fault of Israel and the US by your reasoning.

"For how long have the misinformed on this forum claimed Islam is one gigantic homogeneous religious block"

I don't recall people claiming any such thing. What Iran's neighbours have expressed concern about are the attacks by Iran against civilians and fossil fuel production and transport, an act of international terrorism.

Where is the moral justification for a government calling for the extermination of Jews and the destruction of Israel? Oh, that's right, the Jews brought it all on themselves, didn't they?

It looks like many democratic nations are coming to the realisation that Iran's terrorist regime cannot be allowed to keep reigning terror upon all and sundry.

Hi Fester,

Deliberate targeting by Iran... YES. Deliberate targeting by Israel... YES. Deliberate targeting by America... YES. None of it is right, its ALL morally reprehensible, in my view. There is no moral justification for killing innocent people. You may believe the ends justifies the means, I don't see it that way.

"Oh, that's right, the Jews brought it all on themselves, didn't they?" No, not entirely in my view, others played their part in what is a disgusting situation in the Middle East today.

"Islam is one gigantic homogeneous religious block"

"I (Fester) don't recall people claiming any such thing." you must not be reading the comments by our resident "Islamic Expert" ' the ignorant Bezza, and a couple of others, who believe all 2 billion Muslims are bad (just like the Lovely Pauline claims), all have a single purpose, that is to takeover the world, and exterminate everyone else. Suddenly we've found millions of good Muslims in the Middle East, a case of my enemies, enemy is my friend.

Hi Fester,
I think it's kind of curious how you and I completely disagree on just about everything but we can still be friendly towards each other.
- And it's not just that we disagree is it?
it's also that we both wholehearted believe our positions are right and nothing the other says will likely change each others positions.
- And I see it more as an opportunity to learn something I suppose, or at the very least I should..
See it as an opportunity to learn something rather than it be a reason to argue or for conflict.

"The action of nations like the US and Israel underpin the freedoms of people like you and me AC. China and Russia would see us oppressed and living in fear."

- I don't think so.
I think Netayahu and a compliant West have been over there having their wars and stirring up all the Muslims like beating on a Hornets's nest for the past 3 decades plotting and scheming and playing people off against each other, starting conflicts in and between neighbouring states using some groups as fighters and then hanging them out to dry when it suits.
And in Iran, long before that too.
Iran's real attempt at democracy was with Mohammad Mosaddeq, and the West had probably been exploiting them long before that.

>>Mohammad Mosaddeq was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran (1951–1953) who championed sovereignty, constitutional rule, and the nationalization of Iran's oil industry, challenging British control. His popular, nationalist government was overthrown in a 1953 CIA-backed coup, which many view as a crucial, destructive turning point for democracy in Iran.<<

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On the matter of oil tycoons.. democracy.. and 'national interests'
If Iranians voted this bloke in, and his election promise was to stop foreign companies taking all the nations wealth...
Which is more important?
What the people wanted - to take more of what they considered theirs, or the foreign company that invested a million dollars to build a well, and believed this bought a right to have the lions share flowing into their foreign pockets forever?
And would go to war with that country to install a government that supports their 'national interests'? (money flowing)

Empires don't last forever, they rise and fall.
America's in it's final days, the worlds headed for more conflict.
You can cling onto the old and we can all go down with the ship.
Or we can instead think for ourselves about what would be best and what comes next.

I support a multipolar world, one where all peoples have their own nations, where everyone gets a seat at a big round table, not a long one with a bully sitting at the head of it, and everyone else sitting in quiet subservience.

Hi Paul,

"the Iranians and its supporters being Shia, and the Muslim countries they are attacking being Sunni, and they don't like each other."

Well I think its just as much a military strategy as much as anything.
US / Israel V's Iran, with the Gulf states having U.S. bases, oil supply, air defence, ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) and launch attacks against Iran from, and they probably see the U.S. and Israel as being in cahoots against them and the Gulf nations + Iraq and Jordan as being complicit also having U.S. bases.
They've looked at all of this, plus all the targets in Israel and worked out a foolproof plan.

They've pre-planned and scripted this entire war.
Wave after wave, target after target, with the ability for each smaller group capable of functioning without a command structure.
Looked at everyone's strengths and weaknesses, and charted a course to not lose.
Everyone's replacement is already trained, and their replacement too.
First they needed to target U.S. bases, command and control, get them to exhaust their supply of missile interceptors, and target all their radars.
The Gulf countries are legitimate targets because they host U.S. bases.

U.S. bases in the region do not have underground bunkers, soldiers were being sent to hotels, that's why hotels were targeted. CIA bases, anyone connected to the U.S. military target rich environment.

They also had to stay in control of escalation dominance.
So anytime they were punched, they had to punch back harder.

Google? 'Israel and Iran targeting banks'

AI Overview
Israel and Iran are actively targeting each other's financial infrastructure as part of an escalating economic war
. Israel has identified the Central Bank of Iran and institutions like Bank Sepah as kinetic military targets, while also targeting Hezbollah-linked banks. Iran has threatened to target US and Israeli banks and economic centers, specifically after accusing them of striking Iranian banks.