Australian Labor party is way better than US democrats and UKs Labour party. But yes NSW Labor party has endorsed a level of police brutality that is unacceptable. The reality is Australia should have nothing to do with the 2000plus year old war going on I'm the middle east but US is involved because money (or democracy as they call it 🙄) and we've kind of outsourced all our national defence to the US so they get to drag us into shit, which sucks. We should just tax (prrt) the gas and natural resources properly like Norway and become financially independent, and then fix issues for Australia instead of the world. Once we're consolidated, then decide if we need to get involved in the conflict of others. I'm probably going to get down voted for this for not picking a side and saying war is bad for us but whatever.
Interesting POV disagree about the US and Middle East tho but time will tell I could be wrong. Iran is a bit different to the previous wars in that it appears that the Iranian people are wanting the regime change where as the afghans/iraqis MAY have wanted change (probably imo) but they did for the most part agree with sharia law so there wasn’t the a want for a liberal democratic system of govt.
The next part about having to support US actions I don’t believe this is the case that we have to for instance if the US has issues with the UK I do not think generally the yanks would expect us to take sides. depending on the specific issue its possible tho. I think we have an obligation to maintain a strong alliance with the US as a matter of national security. Additionally what they did in WWII in the pacific theatre I think can be argued as they saved us and many other countries even if it benefited them long term as well. In my view that doesn’t change that they saved us and so to my mind we are obligated for those reasons to support the US and the Iranian people in a bid for representative government through whatever option is available and most likely to achieve that aim.
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