Australia says no to sending ships to strait of Hormuz as Trump increases pressure (www.theguardian.com)

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I hope our govt keeps saying no. We'd be risking lives. Israel and the US create the problem and than expect others to come and solve it. They'd been warned this would happen but they went ahead and bombed Iran.

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[-] willie1foot@theblower.au 18 points 1 day ago

@arbilp3 Good. I hope they (diplomatically of course) said ‘Fuck off. You started it; you can finish it.’

[-] harmbugler@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

"You've already won and Hegseth said not to worry about the strait. You're so big and powerful, we're sure you don't need our help."

[-] arbilp3@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm sure they could manage a bit of doublespeak Stewart. .

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