By Jo Nova
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is open, but Donald Trump says “wait”.
In other words, the Iranians have blinked first, but the US Navy will stick around until the deal is done properly. Iran has agreed to give up the enriched uranium. It was a “GREAT AND BRILLIANT DAY FOR THE WORLD!” Donald Trump wrote on TruthSocial.
Ships apparently are waiting for insurance calls and confirmation.
Like a comedy team, France and the UK hosted a multinational teleconference call and bravely offered to lead a mission to protect freedom of navigation in the Strait, which they’ve now realized is important to “the whole world”. Trump wryly remarked that: “Now that the Hormuz Strait situation is over, I received a call from NATO asking if we would need some help”. He told them to stay home, “UNLESS THEY WANT TO LOAD UP THEIR SHIPS WITH OIL“. Adding that “They were useless when needed, a Paper Tiger!”
The Australian Prime Minister must be thrilled that he might be spared from further ignominy, as Australia’s pathetic state of energy vulnerability is obvious to everyone, and, if the Strait isn’t opened, we may be mere weeks away from running out of fuel, despite having oil deposits waiting for years to get approval to use.
Trump said he was not happy with Australia, and the PM and Treasurer protest on a weaselly technicality, that they weren’t asked for anything. All they had to do, and for free, was just endorse what Trump was doing.
When Trump says Australia wasn’t there when we needed them, he is almost certainly talking about moral support, and not our thirty year old frigates. We did send one plane, but when the key moment came, the PM called for a de-escalation which was exactly the opposite of what Trump was doing. Anthony Albanese could have said: “We must stop Iran getting a nuclear weapon.” That would have been enough
Australia’s national security swamp means we have diesel subs, but almost no diesel. As Leith van Onselen wrote “Due to its immense size, isolation, and industry composition (i.e., heavy mining and agriculture), Australia is literally one of the most diesel-dependent economies in the world.”
And the least prepared.
Albanese must have been sweating when the news came in that the refinery was on fire. He talks down the risks, but cut his fuel hunting trip short and flew straight there. And this political mistake is so obvious — the smoke has barely cleared and there is already talk of building another oil refinery in Australia. It would have been a blasphemy two months ago. But times have changed.
The PM’s big strategic trip to South East Asia is best described as theatre. He was pleased to tell the world he got 100 million litres of fuel. But the Russians mocked the size: “Daily usage is 92 million liters (sic),” [they] wrote. “Saving Australia 1 day at a time.”
A laughing stock…
Not open to all.
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Correct. Jo omitted the terms.
Good strategy by Iran – make Trump force Netanyahu’s hand in Lebanon for a temporary ceasefire.
Meanwhile Trump ends the 12 year presence in Syria, moving personnel to Jordan instead.
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Amazing News.
Only Trump could have done it. And he won’t let Iran off the hook until they actually deliver the U237.
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And they will do that quickly, because Iran is on the brink. Soldiers have to be paid. And food will run short. Every revolution starts with the soldiers changing sides and the people starving.
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Same goes for Australians…high costs, businesses cut back or close, job losses or harder to get to work, mortgages offloaded, falling assest backed debt, crops not seeded, bread and milk not delivered, windless days, weak winter solar, batteries only lasting hours….imagine the last straw being no mains water pressure.
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And. NO Sewerage working !!
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I suppose that would precede the sewers clogging.
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The Islamic Praetorian Guard Corps are already sharpening their swords.
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We shall see.
So far they have agreed to open the Strait to all traffic and forego toll fees.
Giving up the Uranium could be harder.
There have been reports that large numbers of IRGC are buried or trapped underground in their tunnels.
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U.S. Navy’s sole supercarrier near Iran endures severe food shortages as logistics disrupted.
Families of the sailors onboard are reporting that they frequently go hungry, and the disruption of mail means they cannot send additional food or supplies. These shortages have also affected other warships in the region, including personnel on the amphibious assault USS Tripoli.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/us-navy-supercarrier-food-shortages
So much winning!
Start a laundry fire and go home for KFC. /sarc
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Rubbish.
USN is never short of food.
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Why will food run out? Have you looked at a map of Iran?
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Yes.
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US has run out of bombs that’s the problem.
Iran is stocking up from its allies . .
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Should have been U235.
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I just checked the Marine Traffic website live map.
Half a dozen tankers which had been anchored inside the Strait of Hormuz seem to be on the move.
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The blockade on Iran is still active. That will not be lifted till the ink has dried on the document permitting free access of US personnel to recover the enriched uranium.
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Notice how all the talk of mines has evaporated.
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Tanker traffic is even better now.
At least 2 dozen tankers on the move.
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The United States under Trump will have achieved an incredible result while not putting boots on the ground. And the Democrats are still yelling Impeach and War Crimes and Quaqmire and Senile. Of course.
But every part of this near world ending nuclear disaster was engineered by Democrat Presidents from the original 1979 revolution sponsored by Jimmy Carter to the push to give Iran nuclear weapons and ICBMs under Obama, Obama and Obama(Biden).
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And while the overwhelming power and technology was American, the extraordinary pin point execution of mass murdering IRGC and Hezbollah and Gaza (remember them?) leaders was entirely Mossad and Israel. Especially the exploding pagers and radios.
Free Palestine is nonsense historically and legally but a clear call to exterminate the Jews. Free Iran should always have been the real call of the free world. And the European leaders were nowhere to be seen. Like Albanese and Wong, they were cheering for the IGRC and did nothing to help and everything to hinder.
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If widespread peace breaks out in the Middle East and around the world, a peace based on Trump’s Abraham Accords, a peace without Iranian funded killers from Sydney to New York to Paris and Germany and Manchester. It will be the first time in a lifetime that great cities like Beirut and Damascus and Tehran and more can start to rebuild their city and their lives.
But there will a conga line of leftist politicians who will rush forward to claim credit. Especially Wong and Albanese. And then it will be back to blowing up power stations and building transmission lines across agricultural land for Chinese windmills and solar panels. And the media will quickly forget everything. Just as the appalling rout and human cost of Biden’s Afghanistan is never mentioned.
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I especially enjoyed Israel’s ‘delivery’ app that allowed Iranians to report IRGC checkpoints being set up on their street and Israel would dispatch a drone to ‘deliver’ an explosion and turn the bad guys into salsa.
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“And the European leaders were nowhere to be seen. Like Albanese and Wong, they were cheering for the IGRC and did nothing to help and everything to hinder.”
That’s mainly because they have hordes of muslims back home to keep on side.
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Might it be that large scale Islamic immigration to western nations was a gigantic political error?
And which western leader, other that Trump, will start the remigration program. Start with all the Islamic “refugees” from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Lebanon.
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“Large scale Islamic immigration “
Would not have occurred had we not deliberately decided to overturn functioning societies; ( in my view, all done to guard the petro dollar, steal oil and impose central banking systems … Israeli expansionism aside)
No democracy , but a citizen who didn’t express alternative political views (ie, as today’s Brit’s can’t do!) wasn’t going to leave Libya in a hurry:
Libya
Literacy & Education: Adult literacy rose significantly from around 25% in 1969 to over 80% by 2011. Education was free at all levels.
The Great Man-Made River: This was a real, massive engineering project—the largest of its kind—providing freshwater across the desert.
Healthcare: Medical treatment was free and accessible to citizens, though quality varied.
Subsidies: Basic goods like bread and petrol were heavily subsidised, making them among the cheapest in the world.
National Debt: Libya had virtually no external debt and held approximately $150 billion in foreign reserves.
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A TRiUMPh
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One of Trump’s superpowers is the willingness to say what everyone is thinking, but no diplomat or politician would ever say out loud. People appreciate leaders who tell blunt truths rather than lie or obfuscate about obvious things.
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Today’s ‘leaders’ in Europe are professional bureaucrats, elitists, finding the path of least resistance to a globalist world vision where they rule. They are not paper tigers but the UK, France and Italy and Germany all had designs on Africa and the Middle East in particular. Not least because of the war. You could even argue that WWII was all about oil and that oil decided it. And it was France and Britain in particular who created the mess which pervades the old Ottoman empire. And engineered the collapse of the Ottoman empire and Iran in the 1925. Then again in 1953.
“In 1952 Mossadeq was named Time magazine’s Man of the Year. In 1953 the British MI-6 and the CIA undertook Operation Ajax, which toppled Mossadeq from power. To many Iranians, Mossadeq became a symbol of yet another moment in history when foreign intervention played a pivotal role in thwarting a democratic movement in Iran.”
The revolution in 1979 was a combination of the US under Jimmy Carter and Britain, France and Germany again. And each time they created a monster worse than the last.
This time perhaps and at last, Iranians will have a government of their choosing as Britain, France and Germany sit this one out and Trump leavess the Iranian people to decide their own fate. Hopefully.
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There will be ..WAR….Trump is insane !!!!!
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Boring.
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Iran declared war on the rest of the world and the US in particular in 1979. All the deaths around the world, funded by Iranian oil. In every country. Even Buenos Aries in 1994! You know the rest. So many mass murders.
But with the ability to actually deliver a nuclear warhead on London or Delhi or Moscow and Tel Aviv, they were about to create the Armageddon which is the driving vision in their twelver Islamic religion. Except no one believed it would happen. The launch of two missiles to Diego Garcia shattered that idea.
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1979?
Wot?
You mean nothing happened before then and Iran just suddenly became ‘unreasonable’?
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Yes in 1979 the US got the kind of push back it wasn’t used to and that can never be resolved peacefully. Of course that provided a convenient whipping boy and all the ills of the world (often people lashing out against US adentures) could be laid at the feet of Iran, hence the great 40+ years of terrorism narrative loved by so many.
I doubt the Iranians are angels but I think they may have plenty of company on the ladder of global mischief.
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Like most pro-Trump people, there are things about the guy I like, and things that I could do without. His over-the-top war threats delivered via social media are definitely on my ‘could do without’ list, but you’ve got to take the bad with the good. Trump is gonna Trump.
At the end of the day, he’s rolling the dice on finding a permanent solution to an issue that has been a problem for both NATO and the middle east for nearly a half-century. Maybe he succeeds, maybe he fails, but we know for a fact that 47 years of diplomacy and appeasement hasn’t worked, so why not try something else? Iran has been inching closer and closer to having nukes for the past 30-40 years, and every western leader has been content to kick the can down the road and let their successors deal with it. But we were rapidly approaching the endgame, and one or two more kicks of the can would have resulted in a nuclear powered Iran.
Every president and prime minister and King of the past 30-40 years has drawn a red line on Iran getting nukes and then done nothing. Trump is the only one who had the guts to try and fix the problem rather than just prolong it, and if it is true that Iran is willing to give up it’s enriched stockpile, he might have succeeded. Would I prefer there also be a regime change? Of course. But you can’t have everything. Besides, I suspect that even if the Iranian regime survives this current dust-up, they have been bearded in their own den and no one fears them anymore. Their proxies have been nearly wiped out, their air defenses are gone, their navy has been sunk, their air force destroyed, their treasury and missile/drone stockpile are nearly empty, the top two or three levels of their leadership have been decapitated and the people now in power are 3rd stringers. I doubt they will survive another decade before their neighbors or their own people finish them off.
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His war threats were meant to be over the top. That’s how it is done! You do not deal with mass murderers by being polite. It’s what the death cult IRGC understand. Nothing less. They are the SS.
His volatility and unpredictability is his strength in brutal negotiations with an enemy for whom bad faith is a rule. Trump’s allies understand this. Starmer and Macron and Albanese would give every concession, as they have.
A demure, polite, measured negotiation would get absolutely nowhere. That’s what a politician would do. And get nowhere. Credibility zero.
And he didn’t do it. But it brought them, smarmy and unrepentant to the negotiation table in Pakistan. In bad faith.
Anyone involved in business, not politics, knows that you cannot negotiate with one hand behind your back.
But these monsters who hide behind their own people needed more pressure. So a blockade. And it is devastating. They understand that when the money runs out and quickly, they better run. That is the real threat.
The question now is whether they cut and run and try to survive or follow their cash out of the country. Apparently vast sums of money have already been wired out. When the people are starving and the soldiers aren’t paid, you are dead meat. Their only hope of survival is to concede. Even then, their bags will be packed and the cars/planes/helicopters/hotels will be ready.
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100% – Trump needs to keep his foot firmly planted on the throat of the Iranian psychotic terrorist regime, finish it…
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Sorry TdeF that was mean’t to be a a thumbs up! Not down!!
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The phrase ‘kicking the can’ has been thrown about quite a bit lately. For those who may have missed it, someone on this blog posted this link in the past week or so. The first cartoon depicted (under the Peace-Fire tab) is even more relevant after the events of the past 24 hours..
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/04/the-week-in-pictures-peace-fire-edition.php
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The mayhem he has caused since coming into office..Doge..ICE , tariffs..wanting to annexe Canada..invade Greenland…Venezuela..Iran…his verbal insults..his language ..his self aggrandisement .these are not the actions and words of any sane leader…how is any of this sustainable for another 3 years..What does he have to do before the grown ups take charge..?
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His unpredictability is his strength , the fact he is no politician is also his strength, what you hate is his winning way and no BS attitude in that it’s his way or the highway .
Yes he says some hurty words but I’m sure there’s a support group for TDS sufferers and a vaccine is being manufactured as we speak for TDS .
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DOGE worked. Billions in fraud uncovered.
ICE is the Federal job, immigration control enforcement. The 20 million people are illegal, a result of refusing to let ICE do its job. The US has immigration laws. Its about enforcement, utterly neglected under Obama, OBama and Biden.
Tariffs work. America had a 5% tariff on European cars. Germany had a 25% tariff on American cars. That is not free trade.
Greenland is the only place to stop incoming ICBMs. 98% is uninhabited. It was gifted to Denmark by the UN. The battle in the artic between Russia, China and the US is critical to the survival of the world. Korea has just massively increased its nuclear weapon production and China has doubled its ICBM arsenal. And European politicians could not care less. They are pushing mass African migration, regardless of the consequences.
As for his ‘insults’, they are only insults if they are untrue. Almost all the press is Anti Trump on every subject, in every way. And never ever criticized Joe Biden, even though he spent half his Presidency at his beach house and no one knows who ran the Presidency. Even if everyone does.
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Gotta love when people who claim to be the defenders of democracy advocate for abandoning democracy. Trump won fair and square. Twice (or three times depending on how you feel about 2020). The people made their decision and Trump campaigned on most of those things you mentioned (ICE, DOGE, etc.).
You either value the ballot box or you don’t, and it seems you don’t when things don’t go your way. There are constitutional ways to remove a president, but they require either a supermajority in the Senate (which neither party has) or a majority of the President’s own cabinet. Neither of those things is even remotely possible, so the only way for the ‘grown ups’ to take charge is via coup or assassination.
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You should include in your list — His achievements
Nothing changes if nothing changes.
All your nice diplomatic crawling has not worked in the past .
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The diplomatic crawling was to avoid a full blown holy war, history shows there is always a lot of collateral damage in sectarian warfare.
Change should be gradual to prevent hostile outbreaks, I blame BiBi.
POTUS has managed to galvanise all the other nation states to walk away from the US Alliance.
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Whatever chance there was of a full blown holy war was eliminated when Iran started lobbing missiles and drones at their coreligionist gulf neighbors. While America’s post-Christian secular European ‘allies’ have hemmed and hawed and dragged their feet until the shooting was over, the Islamic gulf states were fully supportive of putting the boots to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Other way around EG. Trump is walking away from the NATO alliance.
Other members have proven to be weak when needed.
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Which ‘grown ups’? Do you mean the likes of Biden and Obama? Or, heaven help us; the likes of AOC or Kackling Kamala?
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hahahahahah TDS
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It took Obama 7 months to eliminate Gadhafi’s Libya … Trump got what he wanted from Iran in 6-7 weeks.
AND Iranian shipping is still blocked, meaning that there is still pressure for regime change and a chokehold on China’s energy demands.
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Trump is the embodiment of America’s first world power and ALL the ‘experts’ were wrong, again.
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One day, maybe, people will listen and research political history and the businessman Trump who opposed the UN Lima Protocol Agreement (non-binding) 1975 that was the start of the transfer of manufacturing industry based wealth creation to developing countries coupled with trade arrangements with developed countries that have been losing manufacturing and related service industry businesses and jobs/taxes resulting in, notably, the rise of China to become a major economic and military power.
First term President Trump addressed the UN in New York and during his address he complained that the UN had expanded beyond the original charter, had added too many organisations and was interfering in the affairs of sovereign nations, Trump called on UN Officials to stop interfering.
Here in Australia the interference of the UN with compliant governments cooperation – legislating laws and creating regulations to enforce UN agreements and agenda, via Federation of State governments and the Commonwealth/Federal Government created at the time of Federation 1900.
And creating a spider’s web of red, green and black tape compliance requirements and costs that can only be unraveled via all three levels of government and Federal and State House of Representatives and Upper House (Senate/Legislative Assemblies). Add the green protest groups that use the laws and regulations via court proceedings to block, for example, mining ventures or hold them up for years so that many investors pull out and take their investment capital elsewhere.
Typically Labor Green Teals here join together to oppose any changes to legislation and spread relentless negativity against their political opponents to try and remove the conservative side credibility in the minds of voters.
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Let’s hope this works out a bit better. Libya went from being the richest, most well educated nation in Africa to total anarchy, open air slave markets, and the launching point for flotillas of thousands of migrant boats into southern Europe. Sure, Gadhafi was a pain the butt for NATO, but compared to what came after him, he was a sweetheart.
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Gaddafi was a monster. And his chemical nerve gas factories were very real.
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So were Saddam Hussein’s in Iraq, despite the continuing even today claim based on no WMD discovered by UN Weapons Inspectors, ignoring that Iraq used those gases against Turkish Kurds and Iran earlier than Desert Storm when Coalition Of The Willing chased their military out of Kuwait that Iraq had invaded and Kuwait had called for assistance and Hussein would not confirm or deny WMD was ready to be used if the US led Desert Storm operation entered Iraq.
Inspectors discovered laboratories, two chief chemists, import documentation for chemicals, unused artillery shells stockpiled ready for loading with gases, and more.
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Yes the media tell us now that it was all imaginary. No one had nerve gas. And that factory ship off the coast of Lebanon destroying the nerve gas in high temperature incinerators did not exist. One drop is fatal and they had semi trailers full.
But now the press has forgotten, Gadaffi was misunderstood and Saddam and Gadaffi and Assad were nice guys. It was all Reagan/Bush/Trump’s fault. And Biden was a great President and not a crook with his son Hunter. And Nancy Pelosi made half a billion through clever investment. As did the Biden family with Joe on $140K a year for 40 years. Only the Republicans were crooks and liars. Which was why in the 2016 election 98.4% of the people in Washington DC voted for Hilary Clinton.
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I like what he has done, and is trying to do, at home. I think he, the US and the world would be better off if he focussed on that.
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His job is almost entirely overseas. Defence. Immigration. Trade.
There are 50 States to look after themselves.
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So Iran, in opening the strait, which was part of the cease fire deal, and only happens after Israel was forced into a ceasefire blinked, first? In this conflict, Iran has consistently abided by rules concerning civilian and civilian infrastructure, where the US, on the first day double tapped a girls school, threatens to wipe out the entire civilisation, while Israel destroys public infrastructure murders bystanders and has created over a million refugees.
But they are white and Iran is not
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That’s just simply not true. They have fired thousands of missiles toward civilians in Israel and Arab countries.
Energy & Industrial Infrastructure:
Kuwait: Mina al-Ahmadi oil refinery (struck multiple times, causing damage).
Oman: Fuel tanks and tanker at the Port of Duqm (direct explosion).
Saudi Arabia: Oil facility at Ras Tanura (forced temporary shutdown).
Israel: Bazan Oil Refinery Complex in Haifa (missile strike caused fires and operational shutdown).
UAE: Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa economic zone attacked twice.
Transportation & Air Traffic:
UAE: Dubai International Airport (reported damage).
Oman: Salalah port (drone strike reported).
Iraq: Erbil Airport.
Kuwait: Kuwait International Airport (radar systems damaged).
Commercial & Residential Areas:
Israel: Residential areas in Bnei Brak, Rosh HaAyin, and Tel Aviv (resulting in civilian injuries and damage from shrapnel).
UAE: Residential areas in Abu Dhabi.
Utility & Technology Infrastructure:
Israel: Haifa Power Plant (struck by missiles).
Israel: Wastewater treatment facility in Herzliya.
UAE/Bahrain: Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities.
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you mean after the white people started a war and then used their Arab proxies as bases, and then attacked Iran’s infrastructure, it was only after that Iran attacked infrastructure in those Kingdoms (they are not democracies).
you forget that the first strikes which started this war as against Iran, was announced and was during negotiations. So the murder of arab innocents means nothing to you. White Bois Rule!
[It is always the left that obsess about race. Petty race-baiting? Is that all you have? – Jo]
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>white people… White Bois
Bigoted much? Citizens of the USA & Israel come in a variety of skin colours.
Iranian people are just as “white”. Iran is the “Land of the Aryans”.
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That was a quick turnaround from Iran following the rules to they’re not following the rules but it’s classed as just retaliation.
As for the murder of innocent Arabs. Of course that means something. That’s one of the reasons Iran gets criticised, including murdering 40,000 innocents recently.
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Peter Fitzroy as soon as you bring race into an argument you lose and from what I can see all but a couple of Arab nation neighbours want Irans military gone so are they also being racist ?
You also forgot white and straight !
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They are silent about the girls school. All forgotten now because America did it and they’re the good guys.Unbelievable!
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I seem to recall that the “girls school” in question was attributed to being on a corner of a military base.
Was this confirmed or proven incorrect?
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Moronic assertions about race.
Persians are whiter than white, they are not arabs either. They might be the original Aryans, but for sure they are Indo-European and so is their language.
They were forcibly islamised and had to adopt the Arabic alphabet, with huge changes in a lot of letter-signs because Farsi has sounds not found in Arabic. It is an Indo European language.
So whatever the reason for the war, it wasn’t whiteness or race. What a simpleton.
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Name a first strike , unprovoked, on civilian infrastructure
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Always so certain. Never correct.
Iranians/Persians are not Semites. They are white. Their ancestral ties are to Indo-Europeans rather than Arabians.
https://www.answers.com/history-ec/Were_the_Persians_Semites
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Why do you think that Iran’s strikes on civilian infrastructure is abiding by the rules but that Israel’s and US strikes is not?
Iran has struck oil, energy and desalination plants, airports, and civilian buildings in neighbouring countries who aren’t even attacking Iran. Iran has attempted to disrupt world wide commerce by attacking transport hubs, closing the strait, and destroying civilian oil tankers.
Even Al Jazeera reports on such. Your ABC too.
https://youtu.be/or4fdQOn9Cs?si=mx6zwewbvrtN8mAy
I’m not saying Israel and the US haven’t made errors, such as the accidental strike on the school. But would be good if you could explain why you think Iran is complying with rules but others are not.
Let’s ignore all the historical attacks from your angelic rule abiding Iran on civilians, both in Iran and abroad, direct and sponsored. Just sticking to this conflict will be sufficient.
BTW, civilian assets are legitimate targets when they have a dual civilian and military benefit. So you can argue that in your defence of Iran. But you have to argue the same for Israel and the US. But it’s a difficult argument to make for Iran when they’re targeting assets in countries that are not involved.
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I’m old.
When exactly did Jews become white?
I missed it.
I for one white guy, am happy to have them.
For us Christian Nationalists (sarc)* with them on our team, we can get the whole weekend off.
A parting sea, the miraculous tilt of a head.
I think maybe a rapprochement has been reached on that 33AD misunderstanding.
Plus the modern Jews are looking to me like excellent battle buddies.
*I only provide sarc tags when responding to the intellectually challenged.
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Around the same time Asians became ‘white-adjacent’. Successful minorities are inconvenient for the oppressor-oppressed dogma of critical theory, so they get reclassified as white(ish).
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Jews, as I’m sure most know, come in all shades from white to black.
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e.g. – Sammy Davis jnr., who once quipped that he’d done pretty well for a short, black Jew with one eye.
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The schools in Iran are closed (No Children) and are now being used by the IRGC Basij units as their bases have been destroyed. The IRGC are also using hospitals for the same reason.
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And their 300 missile silos are built underneath hospitals and schools, as with Gaza. All human hostages against a Christian foe who cares about the lives of others. It’s a weakness monsters exploit, as in Gaza.
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Yeah, right:
The main Israel Defense Forces (IDF) headquarters, known as HaKirya (the Camp Rabin base), is located in central Tel Aviv and is surrounded by dense urban infrastructure, including commercial towers, residential areas, and medical centers.
The Israeli navy base in Haifa is located near the Rambam Healthcare Campus, which includes a children’s hospital.
An Israeli military intelligence center is located in the vicinity of Soroka Hospital.
According to a June 2025 report a fortified subterranean command bunker linked to the IDF headquarters was reported to be located near or under Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
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As they trained their Hamas and Hezbollah proxies (and others) to do, human shields in public buildings and dwellings as cover
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What rock have you ben under for the last 47 years? for you to idolise Irans Human rights credentials is just laughable. In the last few months they have MURDERED 40000 of their own citizens.
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And before that mutilated women with acid thrown in their face for daring not to wear the Hijab to the satisfaction of the IRGC supervisors, and earlier others tortured in prisons, filthy conditions deliberately to inflict the most suffering possible, and murdered.
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You disconnect this from Oct. 7th.
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That was not to support the United States but upon request of UAE. Australia did nothing to support the United States or our own oil supply.
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And ask why PM Albanese when questioned after POTUS Trump alleges Australia failed to help when requested replies no new request has been made, and then waffles on about next to nothing but a word salad?
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Sorry I think I gave you a thumbs down instead of up!
I am having a bad run.
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Meanwhile Albo saves Australia with a 100 million litre diesel “deal” – just one 85,000 tonne shipload.
What a spinmeister.
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26 hours supply.
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It’s now more evident than ever that the “government”, as a whole does not have a clue about fuel requirements, consumption or any strategy to protect our energy supply.
Al Pinocchio & his administration only open their mouths to change feet.
Sky News this am reported that the Pope has called for a corruption free Africa. No doubt he’s also out of touch with reality! Corruption is the biggest ( for some ) industry on the continent. Shut it down & they’ll have nothing!!
Secondly does he have any ideas to achieve his aims?? Thought not & rest assured not even Trump could not do anything, even if he was concerned!!
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It is quite simple, Renewable Energy Target legislation and regulations, transition away from fossil fuels
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LOL, if you regard launching ballistic missiles against civilian infrastructure in various gulf states as “consistently abid[ing] by rules concerning civilian and civilian infrastructure”, then you are even more deluded than your commentary on the Klimate Kult has already proven.
See also David Maddison’s list of civilian targets struck by Iranian ballistic missiles.
Note, this is a response to Peter Fitzroy, which erroneously ended up in the wrong place.
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And a big surprise was the success of the Aluminum catamaran and trimaran Littoral ships which started with Austal ships in WA.
Australia pioneered big fast sea going aluminum catamarans in Cairns, Hobart and Perth. The Austal design was adopted by the US Navy and made ultimately by Austal in Mobile, Alabama, they were to be scrapped as useless as they were prone to weld fracturing in high seas.
But they proved to be uniquely fast, flat platforms for launching drones, shallow draft and essential for policing the mined straits of Hormuz and launching drones like an aircraft carrier. And with low displacement and very high speed (up to 87km/hr!), far less risk from pressure wave activated mines, rising mines and swarms of fast attack boats. So Australian developed technology is playing a big part in clearing the Strait and in the ongoing blockade.
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Thank you for that TdeF. Who knew? We should all be aware of Aussie successes such as these vessels.
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There was an attempt by a Korean company to buy Austal ships, but it was blocked by the government. Even so I doubt Albanese and Wong have a clue or they would be claiming their involvement in the war was a success. That may happen soon. More spin than a windmill.
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Wong is a progressive radical left anti-semite Marxist-Islamist. Yes I said it! If she could she’d send Australian forces to fight for the enemy. She is a fruitcake loony…
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And that’s exactly why TRUMP didn’t inform Australia or any European “allies” about his plans. He simply couldn’t risk his operational plans being leaked to the enemy.
He did however make good use of useful idiot Tucker Qatarlson by leaking false plans to him knowing he would leak them to Iran. He told Qatarlson he had no intention of attacking, hence Iran being unprepared when the time came.
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Foreign Affairs Minister Wong again failed to stand with the US at the UN past week when Iran was voted a position on the rights of women!!!
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I have become aware of Austal ships built as passenger and vehicle ferries notably in Europe
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You make a good argument for Oz designed aluminium ships but don’t forget the downsides.
From the Falklands war:
“Ship design was also a problem particularly with aluminum super-structures which burned more readily and with many ships built for ‘habitability and not survivability’. Some of the older ships that were deployed were of an all steel construction, or well-designed, and survived serious damage.”
Looking back at my 20 years in the RAN, I much prefer steel
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Of course. But the weakness of the ships was the electrical system wiring in the ducts. Steel burns too. Digitalisation has changed all that. A single wire can run a ship. Massive redundancy. The ship itself was hardly damaged by the Exocet but the burned out duct based wiring meant the Sheffield was dead in the water. And it was scuttled, not sunk.
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And the double problem was that the Exocet was a joint French/British development and would have been shot down if it had not signalled it was a friendly. The same with the Mirage jets. France is a real problem. As in Desert Storm.
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As when they denied RAAF Mirage jet fighter spare parts to stop the aircraft from being used.
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And when the French tried to join Desert Storm, they were denied as Saddam used the same aircraft. France for decades has been the world’s biggest supplier of weapons. The impressive business centre in Paris along the Rue Charles De Gaulle from Etoile is called La Defence.
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Super Etendards carried exocets. They were also French aircraft.
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The war will never end until there is regime change in Iran.
1) Taqiyya. (Strategic deception.)
2) The belief in the Twelfth Mahdi, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mahdī. The leadership believe they can only bring their messiah if there is an apocalyptic war which they see themselves responsible for creating hence them sponsoring international terrorism, Hezbollah, Hamas, attacking neighbours including Arab states, attacking their own people etc..
You just can’t do “deals” with these people as though they were Westerners doing a real estate deal. It doesn’t work like that in their politico-religious culture.
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Yes, but a Zoroastrian Iran would be a very different place. It was the Persians under Cyrus who released the Israelites from 50 years captitivity as slaves in Babylon(Iraq). There is a debt. And a connection to the world’s oldest monotheistic religion predating Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Even today, Islam is the religion of the Arab conquerors and seen as this in Iran. This is a country where you are killed if you are apostate or have a hair out of place. But there are Kurds in the North, Christians and more. Even within Islam, Shia is only 10%, mainly Iran, Iraq and Qatar and very much a minority elsewhere. And twelvers are a sect within a sect.
The language is Parsi not Arabic while the script is Arabic. This is an occupied country which only became Iran in 1979. If that power structure is discarded and Persia becomes a secular state like Turkey or even a monarchy like Saudi or Jordan, we may see a complete collapse of radical murderous Islam. Certainly the money will stop. And in poor countries, money speaks.
The other Gulf States like UAE have shown that islam and Christianity and a modern world can coexist. And rich people do not want war.
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Note that Turkey under Erdogan is moving away from secularism towards Islamism.
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Yep Turkey is a problem
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And he is moving slowly as the people do not like it. The mayors of London and New York are also extremist Muslims.
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And areas of Paris around St. Denis are black African no go areas. Scary stuff when I was last there to see the Cathedral St. Denis. It was where the Bataclan murderers fled, to hide in the crowds.
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We visited St Denis in 2010 and felt very much the odd ones out even back then.
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Trump can say in the space if two weeks
We must open the Strait
We need help opening the Strait
We dont need help opening the Strait
We dont care about the Strait, we dont use it
We will destroy your civilisation unless you open the Strait
Doesnt matter if you open it, we will block it anyway
And you still prattle about Taqqiya? seriously?
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And then Iran opened the Strait!
You need to read the Art of the Deal.
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POTUS Trump, the greatest leader in history, declared peace with carbon and now on the verge of ridding the world of oil funded terrorists.
Are you braggadocios if you are the best and admit it or just being honest?
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To quote Muhammad Ali, “It aint braggin’ if it’s true.”
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Trump loves BIGNESS. And he loves winning, BIG. — Period.
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I believe Trump simply loves life and knows he is truly blessed to be still here – as the world is to still have him where he is. He has made a habit of winning. He values respect and he gets that from many across the globe. But not the make-believe journalists at their ABC.
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I just hope the strait is quickly cleared and the clueless religious fanatics hand over their enriched uranium fuel ASAP.
Nato proved to be useless again, ditto stupid Albo etc, but we desperately need at least a years fuel storage here in Australia and more drilling for oil should now be our number one priority.
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There is a huge financial incentive for future Iranians to allow access to recover the uranium because the Iran blockade remains in place until that access is signed off.
Iran oil storage is near capacity and wells will have to stop pumping when the tanks are full. If flow stops, the wells can plug and then recovery is difficult.
IRGC may not be too worried about the future because they are under threat from civilian retaliation.
But this is a wealthy nation that has committed a large proportion of its wealth to build an arsenal that was largely destroyed in March 2026. So its oil income from China at world parity price would quickly lift it out of its present economic mess if spent on new infrastructure rather than weapons.
China will have to pay more for Iranian oil once POTUS Trump lifts the blockade because Iran will be able to sell oil worldwide.
The world is looking at a golden age of falling oil prices and maybe slight reduction in demand as more Australians and Europeans learn to cycle.
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Mmmm just like we can charge China for LNG now the world price has risen….oh wait
In reality we have no clue what the arrangements are between China and Iran. The Gulf is also not the only means of export for Iran.
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Pauline Hanson being treated respectfully by the Victorian press:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c5YkZ052yg0
The Napean by-election will be another sanity test for a group of Victorian voters. Do they want more Climate Change™ hoax, more criminal imports, more First Nations apartheid and more gagging of free speech or a functioning first world economy?
Pauline is honest about her dislike of Victoria but can see that Victoria is suffering the most from wokeness.
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[Wrong thread. – Raquel]
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I thought it appropriate because Pauline is the closest Australia has to POTUS Trump. Maybe Pauline’s resolve combined with Gina’s wealth and business connections will be as great as POTUS Trump.
I posted a slightly different version on the Saturday thread.
Trump took lesson from Pauline Hanson on the immigration issues. She has been at that for 30 years. Trump may have longer history with Iran but not with illegal immigrants and First Nations apartheid.
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As a follower of politics and current affairs all of my mong adult life and introduced to politics via family and connections when younger I am keen to know why people seem to believe that One Nation of five (5) elected MPs as at 2025 including 1 elected as a National at the 2025 election could suddenly, and after 29 years trying, become a governing party?
Of course they could gain seats as they have done in SA. They did in QLD late 1990s but within two terms of QLD Parliament they lost most of those seats. And they could gain seats at the by election and in the VicGov election, of course can, but how I ask again would that enable One Nation to form government?
At the SA election they did not preference Liberal candidates and as a result their voter preferences scattered to other candidates and Labor was returned to government in SA.
Is that what people want in VIC and 2028 for Albanese Labor to be returned for another three years?
Greens eleven (11) support Labor, so do Teals, then One Nation effectively add to the helpers.
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No one said they could become the governing party. At least they did not say it here.
The point is that the increasing popularity of One Nation is effecting political change.
The agenda is changing rapidly. If parties do not get on board they will be obliterated.
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Dennis, maybe the lesson is for the Libs in SA. If they held One Nation and its voters in respect, and if they did better versions of stopping mass immigration and ending the Net Zero corruption, then the Libs could preference One Nation and visa versa.
And as I keep saying, One Nation has a soft power that influences both the major parties. Right now, ON are dragging the Uniparty parties back to the center.
Farage didn’t win many seats in the UK in 2016 but his soft power achieved Brexit.
As long as the Libs see ON as the enemy, instead of an ally, they will never win.
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If nothing else, this stoush has highlighted Australias dependence on diesel, with all the mining and broadacre farming and road transport.
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Yet Minister for Energy Bowen and many other Cabinet Ministers continue to talk up renewable (as they call it) energy and remain in denial that fossil fuels are essential
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The term “broadacre farming” does not seem to have an equivalent in North America. Large-scale commercial farming is similar to, but not parsimonious.
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I wonder how the Australian army and its spy plane stationed in the UAE are fairing?
Not Neutral: Inside The UAE’s Shadow Role In the US-Israeli War on Iran
“While presenting itself as a victim on the international stage, the United Arab Emirates silently entered the war against Iran on the side of Washington and Tel Aviv. From sharing data from AI-powered radar systems, to bombing Iranian civilian targets, Abu Dhabi has been by far the most hostile Gulf nation to Tehran.
As the second largest recipient of Iranian missile and drone strikes on its territory, behind only Israel, the UAE has attempted to present itself as following a path of “cautious de-escalation”; in alignment with the position of its fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) allies. Headlines to this effect have even been run in corporate media, such as “UAE refuses to be drawn into the war, even as Iranian missiles rain down”.
Yet, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) did not coincidentally target the Emirates with such heavy blows, including to its infrastructure. The UAE, as the most consequential nation to join and push for the “Abraham Accords” series of normalisation agreements with Tel Aviv, began receiving Israeli radar systems as early as 2022. This move even drew former IRGC Navy leader, Ali Reza Tangsiri, to warn that the move “will destabilize, disturb and create insecurity for both himself and this region.” …….”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/not-neutral-inside-the-uaes-shadow-role-in-the-us-israeli-war-on-iran/290870/
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Undoubtedly the Abraham Accords, which would bring a landmark cooperation and trade relations between many of the Middle Eastern nations and Israel, was vehemently opposed by Iran. Yet it promised a new age in cooperation and friendly relations between previously alienated nations.
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I wonder how the Australian army and its spy plane stationed in the UAE are fairing?
I would think, and hope, that our Wedgetail plane equipped with state-of-the -art detection equipment (“spy plane”??????) is performing very well in detecting the weapons aimed at the nations of the Middle east.
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The belief that the Mahdi will return is held by both Shia and Sunni Muslims and they also believe that the Prophet Jesus will help out. Here’s a quick summary of their end times beliefs.
https://the12thimam.info/imam-mahdi-shia-vs-sunni-beliefs/#:~:text=The%20belief%20in%20the%20Mahdi%20%28The%2012th%20Imam%29%2C,a%20shared%20doctrine%20between%20Sunni%20and%20Shia%20Muslims.
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“Gods Chosen People”?
The Jews are of Esau (Edom, Edomites) from Idumea, and therefore not of Israel or Judah; Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925, vol. 5, page 41.
“Edomite Jews began to call themselves Hebrews and Israelites in 1860.” Encyclopedia Judaica 1971 Vol. 10:23
2Esdras 6:9 … ”For Esau [Edom} is the end of this age, and Jacob is the beginning of the age that follows” …
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Well? There have been “difficult people” in the current area of Israeli since about 1300B.C.
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This scenario reminds me of that American fable “The Little Red Hen”. In a nutshell from AI: “The Little Red Hen finds wheat seeds but her lazy friends (dog, cat, pig/goose) refuse to help plant, harvest, or bake. When the bread is finished, they offer to eat it, but she refuses them, teaching that those who do not work should not enjoy the reward. It highlights initiative and laziness”. Given that this fable was read to young children as an aid to moral development is it possible that Starmer and Macron were absent from kindy when that importand moral development fable was read and discussed in class?
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is it possible that Starmer and Macron were absent from kindy when that importand moral development fable was read and discussed in class?
It is a good question and one I can offer my own observations.
There is a distinct difference in what is taught across various schools in Australia and probably same in Europe. Modern church schools are high on respect, regard and caring. State schools are flavoured by their headmaster and influential teachers and vary across States in Australia. Some lean toward competition and good results. Some lean toward mediocrity and participation. Private schools tend to lean toward privilege and good results by any means.
I do not know where Starmer started school but I don’t think it was privileged. He did go to a secondary school that became private while he was there but his parents did not pay for his education. By contrast, Macron had a privileged education.
I suspect Starmer is not real bright but has some polish.
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‘ … just endorse what Trump was doing.’
Electoral suicide for the sitting PM.
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Albo Akhbar earned fewer votes than Bill Shorten. The least popular PM in Australian history. Electing him again would be National suicide.
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A few months ago I would have thought that was exaggerating. These days I can only agree. What a clown car of incompetents in Cabinet. Dangerous incompetents.
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Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Backfires — A Strategic Disaster Explained |Mohammad Marandi
Prof.Mohammad Marandi Updates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy6PuHJa8uk&t=12s
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Seyed Mohammad Marandi was born on 14 May 1966 in Richmond, Virginia. Marandi spent the first 13 years of his life in the United States.
He is the son of Alireza Marandi, who would later become Iran’s Health Minister and doctor of the Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
Following the 1979 Iranian revolution, his family moved to Iran!(from America)
He talks about American being morally bankrupt. This man and his father are historically and intimately tied to the Ayatollah Ali Khameni himself, the mullahs and 50 years of war with Iraq, Israel and the continuing mass murder of Iranians and political opponents. He would have his bags packed. There will be a price on his head.
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You have to wonder how Blackout can keep his job. The emperor’s new clothes were exposed for what they are – useless. No cranking up the windmills. No tilting of the planet to increase sunlight. Nothing. Just an economic nightmare unfolding and Australia’s energy insecurity exposed to public gaze.
Meanwhile Labor supporters herald a truck load of imported toilet paper transported from Sydney to Canberra on an imported electric truck running off coal fired electricity.
When they planned this momentous trip they had to select the lowest density cargo to avoid the embarrassment of not making it. Toilet paper is as close as you can get to air density and have it self-supporting. But highly appropriate for a visit to Canberra – just thinking about the place gives me the shits. Imagine being the truck driver making this important journey – the range anxiety palpable. (I had to detour to Goulburn to charge and am presently looking for a working charge point – the last two were out of diesel!!!!)
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Did you mean shiites?
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Regarding your detour to Goulburn:
In my 2019 Ford F150 pickup truck, I could make the trip from Sydney to Canberra — and back — and have an hours’ worth of drive time remaining.
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Could Pete Hegseth go down in history as the best US secretary of War since WW2?
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Yes. Which is why the Democrats will try to impeach him and everyone associated with Trump. It’s what they do.
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At a minimum we need 3 modern refineries on the east coast and one in Perth. We need upstream oil activity promoted to production stage and we need to diversify supply via coal to liquid as discussed by Jo.
We badly need strategic thinking. I doubt our government is thinking about much more than papering things over for the next election.
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I realise this is not acceptable comment from me, but please refer to Morrison and Taylor from 2020 planning, Albanese Labor abandoned after forming government May 2022
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Yep, by planning I mean commitment to what would be a decade or two of building. Like SH2 except it would actually achieve something. Brochureware and good intentions are not enough.
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2020 plan, some achieved like saving two oil refineries and deal with PUTUS Trump for oil and fuel supply as needed, AUKUS, and one the building of new fuel storage here but all or most abandoned in 2022 by Albanese Labor and they have been in government now for four years, two more years to go before the 2028 election.
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Refineries are expensive, complex industrial plants. That their product is energy is incidental. We are deindustrialising generally because of high costs due to closed union shops, impossibly expensive coastal shipping, expensive energy, among other things.
We have a severe case of Dutch disease. Our miners are the best and safest in the business but we treat them like schit.
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Keep an eye on Bab el-Mandeb late today?
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Trump has two destroyers in the Red Sea. Gaza, Yemen, Hezbollah. All are directly affected by this settlement with Trump, especially when the money and the weapons supply stops.
You may soon see a reconquest of North(East) Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world. South Yemen may take over and end the civil war.
“The Houthi movement (officially Ansar Allah) is the faction in Yemen aligned with Iran. They control the capital, Sanaa, and much of northern Yemen, acting as a key part of Iran’s regional “Axis of Resistance”. The Houthis are largely supported by Iran, which provides weapons, training, and intelligence, making them a key ally in the Yemen conflict.”
If the Houthis start firing, the response may be overwhelming. Especially from Israel and Arabia.
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Trump is the Messiah.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-declares-himself-to-be-the-chosen-one
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I guess you have to be smart to appreciate his sense of humour. 😉
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And have been in business at a higher level to understand his business political positions, example being MAGA
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MAGA – Hebrew is read from R to L.
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance: Hebrew 98. (agam) — a marsh …
https://biblehub.com/strongs/hebrew/98.htm
98. agam Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance pond, pool, standing water From an unused root (meaning to collect as water); a marsh; hence a rush (as growing in swamps); hence a stockade of reeds — pond, pool, standing (water). Forms and Transliterations
‘The Swamp’ has been a supporter of communism for decades.
[Unclear how this relates to the Strait of Hormuz being open. – LVA]
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USA Democrats don’t do humor.
I think some are smart and will let you know if I identify one.
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Iran STRIKES Oil Tanker, Re-Blocks Hormuz – Trump HUMILIATED | Patrick Henningsen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mketdh_C3fU
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Its a bit late in the day I know, but I can see that so many of you on this site like Donald Trump. So for what it is worth here is my view of this President ;
Trump is delusional, as well as intellectually defficient and a persistent liar.
He is self centered, conceited, narcissistic, egocentric, and vain. Yes all of those things and more. So someone tell me what there is to like about him.
In time he will be dumped into the waste heap of history where I believe he belongs.
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So much hate? Have you considered that President Xi would thank you for your help. The Blob too.
I have a lot of forgiveness for his flaws. He’s the only President who didn’t get into politics to become rich and famous. He could’ve played golf in the Caribbean — instead he put his head above the parapet, faced all the mindless hate, derision and scorn, the indictments, the rape cases, the jumped up accounting “crimes” and the assassination attempts, and the impeachments.
The Bankers and the Blob hate him, and are afraid of him. He’s cut off billions in grift and graft, speaks well, has a great sense of humour, and picked all the people in the US who were targets of The Blob and put them in positions of power. He’s a rare leader who saw through the climate agitprop, withdrew funding from the corrupt UN, didn’t feed money to Iranian terrorists.
He negotiates like a New York Real Estate Mogul which a lot of people don’t seem to understand (including the adversaries of the US). So he keeps the Blob guessing and the Psychopathic Iranians are afraid he might be crazy enough to invade them or bomb them back to the stoneage. Have you considered his persona might just be exactly what he wants? The bug looks like a feature?
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and yet this is exactly what the presidency has delivered him. It is not a coincidence.
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Hi Geoff, we met at this meeting many years ago:
https://joannenova.com.au/2018/02/save-liddell-coal-event-thursday-in-singleton-with-david-archibald/#comment-1984070
It sounds as though you are watching DJT speak and carry on through his video presentations. All I do is read about what he is doing, I couldn’t watch or listen.
The headlines give a good impression of what’s going on: he’s stirring up all the corruption and ugliness in the USA and hot spots around the world and seems to be bringing about important changes to the world.
All the best.
KK
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> …is delusional, as well as intellectually defficient(sic) and a persistent liar.
He is self centered, conceited, narcissistic, egocentric, and vain… will be dumped into the waste heap of history where… he belongs
Sounds like Biden.
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Thanks for your reply Jo. I respect you have a different point of view to myself and that’s OK. Though I take issue with your saying the ‘so much hate’ on my behalf. If your looking for hate, how can you possibly go past the actions and the rhetoric of Donald Trump. Just look at the words and the deeds that come out of the WhiteHouse, look at the killings of innocent people. I’ll say no more . .
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Maybe hate is the wrong word, but you have to admit your description left no stone unturned in disparagement. No ray of light. No possibility that Trump has done anything useful.
Which words specifically convey the hate you see from Trump? Genuine question. I do want to understand your point of view.
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“Hate” is pretty accurate. It’s universal with TDS sufferers.
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Trump, the tragic anti-hero. VDH is famous for likening Trump to Shane, Patton, LeMay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=670mmPS-bG4
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or an Aussie maritime union: You start with the ambit claim and walk back. It works, our merchant seamen, wharfies and train drivers are grossly overpaid doing cushy jobs.
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This aged well.
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Given you have written it more like a dig than a lament, would I be correct in assuming you’re happy about that? Really weird if you are.
Current reports are that Iran has agreed to give up its enriched uranium. But the sticking point appears to be that it will do so to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) or a country like Russia. But not allow the US to search it out or take it. (which probably means it is only agreeing to give up its enriched uranium, but not really wanting to give it all up)
Yes, Iran has closed the Strait again in an attempt to have have the US lift a blockade on the Iran ports.
So basically everything in the blog article is still accurate apart from Iran deciding to close the strait again after letting some ships through.
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It is a fact. It was open for the briefest of time. Putting a headline including the words “Trump says” and expecting it to be true, is fraught at best.
Also, making up what you think is my opinion and then labeling your unfounded assumption as weird is doubly weird and is not an argument.
Of course I want the straight open. Is there someone outside of Iran who does not?
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But it was true.
I asked a question as to your opinion. It was not a statement of your opinion. I made an “IF” comment in advance of a reply. Perfectly reasonable to make a comment clearly stated as “if”. Weird that you took it as anything else.
Cool. Glad you’re not like many anti-Trumpers who would rather he fail, even if to the detriment of the US (and us). Although I’m not sure wanting the strait being open excludes that.
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“In other words, the Iranians have blinked first, but the US Navy will stick around until the deal is done properly”
What deal? You mean the one in TrumpJesus’s tiny mind, if He has one. Why does Our Jo sound like neocon Sean Hannity? Please leave the egregious propaganda in Fatmerica where it belongs. Right-wing Australians are supposed to be more intelligent than this!
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“Maybe hate is the wrong word, but you have to admit your description left no stone unturned in disparagement. No ray of light. No possibility that Trump has done anything useful.”
I’m sorry, how does bombing a non-aggressor country while being thoroughly blackmailed by another for the purposes of divine prophecy is useful in any way. I confess I did not think that Our Jo would be among the tiny rump of Magatards who still think the sun shines out of TrumpJesus’s golden orifice.
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Name one conservative leader who has achieved more than Trump to dismantle the Left Wing Blob in the last 30 years… oh you can’t? — Yet conservatives are meant to hate him? Hmm. You think we’ll fall for this weak trickery? It’s a message that the Psychopath mullahs and President Xi could have written.
As for Iran the “non-aggressor” — I see you have not heard of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis? Iran has been the main sponsor of terrorism for the last 47 years “Death to America” and all.
PS: I am not “your Jo” Mr Potty. You have written 12 comments to date, 9 of which are either anti Trump or pro China. If you need some money you could ask the CCP?
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