The Australian government is pretending that sending a small military detachment to a warzone means you’re somehow not involved.
From the Guardian:
The Australian government is considering offering military support to assist Gulf nations facing strikes from Iran, but will not participate in any ground troop deployment into Iran, the foreign minister has said.
The foreign minister, Penny Wong, confirmed to ABC’s Insiders on Sunday that the government has been asked to provide assistance against Iran’s driving missiles.
“Many countries which are non-participants have been attacked by Iran through this,” Wong said.
“You would anticipate as a consequence that we have been asked for assistance and we will work through that carefully. And of course, we are.”
When asked if that meant assistance to protect them against Iran’s drone and missile attacks, Wong said: “Correct. And we will work through that in accordance with the position that I have outlined, which is we are not participating in offensive action against Iran.”
The announcement is a further step for the government, which has maintained it will not take part in any “offensive” military action against Iran.
There are three lies in this:
- Iran has been attacking any country whose territory has been used to support military action against it.
- If you send military units to defend a country, this frees up other military units for offence.
- Nobody cares.
Each side of politics is either insisting that Australia has woefully betrayed the American Alliance, or they’re whining about a mythical “international law.” They’re probably both right but again, nobody cares.
In the Middle East it’s literally raining oil:
This is Teheran this morning – Yes, this morning.
Thick black clouds are covering the city – oil and ashes are raining down on the streets.
War is hell.
A PH test of the water in Teheran also shows that the water has become acidic- resulting from the oil and ashes leaking… pic.twitter.com/M2LRoDXp6o
— ScharoMaroof (@ScharoMaroof) March 8, 2026
Each side is getting cluster bombed:
Holy shit, Iranian attacks just got wild, firing missiles equipped with cluster warheads
It’s called the Khorramshahr
It’s their most advanced ballistic missile, capable of carrying multiple warheads
This is it a few minutes ago over Israel
pic.twitter.com/1WFgDAVjdb— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 5, 2026
And oil infrastructure is getting hammered.
🇧🇭🔥A massive fire is currently burning at the Bahrain National Oil Company’s refinery following an Iranian ballistic missile attack.
See the latest updates with us:@TTheBattlefield pic.twitter.com/xVI0DzdvQX
— The Battlefield (@TTheBattlefield) March 5, 2026
Aussies really only care a bit about the latter. Almost my entire adult life has been defined by wars for another country in the Middle East. For the generations younger than I, it’s their entire lives.
Every time the Middle East flairs up, representatives of both sides insist that we must pick a side. Practically the only thing that these foreigners agree on is that White Australians cannot say anything bad about them. What has been made abundantly clear is that although each side insists that we should care deeply about the conflict, they could not give a pig’s arse about us.
So why should we care? We simply don’t.
The logic for our initial entry has been turned on its head. Purportedly to fight terrorism, now we are labelled terrorists for questioning why we have imported so many terrorists.
Moreover the past quarter of a century has witnessed unprecedented mass replacement immigration into Australia. Our government practically defines an Australian as anybody from anywhere that they can physically shove into our needlessly overcrowded cities.
White/Anglo Australians are sick of these betrayals, and the major parties are dying as a result. A paradigm shift is occurring across the West where nationalist and populist parties are replacing the conservative parties which have conserved nothing.
The number one issue these emerging parties are surging on, and the number one issue on which their success or failure will be judged, is remigration. Practically every issue which affects our daily lives – inflation, the housing crisis, struggling infrastructure, congestion, foreign interference in our political process, the replacement of Australians in our own country – can be relieved by enacting remigration.
While the political and media establishment hyperventilate about a war we don’t care about, the real discussions are occurring in nationalist circles over the tone and the specifics of how to achieve remigration. This is because we have the ability to make or break whichever party rises to fill the void left by the dying Liberal Party.
Thus in Australia, One Nation should take heed not to catch the war bug. Australians have experienced a quarter of a century worth of cuckservative politicians deflecting concerns over mass replacement immigration by dog whistling over terrorism and refugees.
The far left has been correct to make this accusation against the Liberal Party, but the real victims of such dog whistling were not “minorities” subject to “racism”, but the Australian people who thought we were voting for less mass replacement immigration but instead got more.
It is the number one reason the Liberal Party is tanking. If One Nation attempts the same trick, they will go the way of Liberal Party.
