Nick McKim says PM Albanese’s decision to send troops to Middle East “embarrassing”
Australia has arrived “struck in the hip” to the US and Israel “Disaster” War with Iran, Senator Nick McKim has warned after dozens of Australian troops moved to the Middle East.
Australia is deploying surveillance aircraft, a stockpile of air-to-air missiles and 85 military personnel to the UAE to defend against the Emirates. “Provoked Attacks” From Iran, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Tuesday. The Albanians insisted Australia would not “Taking Aggressive Action Against Iran.”
Speaking in the upper house of the Australian Parliament later that day, McKim, who represents the Green Party, accused the Albanian public of being misled.
These forces and assets, he said, “It will be used to increase capacity for the United States and continue to rain terror for Israel on the people of Iran (and) to continue bombing schools and hospitals in Iran.”
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“(Labor is the first government in the world to cheer on US President Donald) Trump and (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu’s illegal war,” He continued. “It was embarrassing to see Prime Minister Albanians marching onto the international stage while war criminals Trump and Netanyahu were committing war crimes, it was sad.”
Hours after the first American and Israeli missiles hit Iran on February 28, Albanians and Foreign Minister Penny Wang released a statement of support for the strikes. “We support the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent Iran from threatening international peace and security.” adding that, the publication read “Australia stands with the brave people of Iran in their fight against oppression.”
McKim Trump denounced Iran’s use of a US-made Tomahawk cruise missile to kill more than 160 schoolgirls in a strike on an elementary school during the war’s opening salvos – which only a handful of countries possess.
“Aren’t you embarrassed?” He asked his fellow workers. “This is the man you have us at the hip. He’s a fascist war criminal fantasist, and you’ve hipped our country to him with your callous toadying through the acus.”
Australia joined the AUKUS security partnership with the US and UK in 2021. Under the agreement, the US agreed to provide the Australian Navy with the nuclear technology to produce and maintain the Virginia-class submarines. China has described it as a US effort to build AUKUS “Asia-Pacific version of NATO” Based on A “Cold War Mentality.”
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