PM Albanese’s decision to send troops to the Middle East is “embarassing,” Nick McKim has said
Australia has been “hitched at the hip” to the US and Israel’s “catastrophic” war with Iran, Senator Nick McKim has warned, after dozens of Australian troops departed for the Middle East.
Australia is deploying surveillance aircraft, stocks of air-to-air missiles, and 85 military personnel to the UAE to defend the Emirates against “unprovoked attacks” by Iran, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Tuesday. Albanese insisted that Australia would not be “taking offensive action against Iran.”
Speaking in the upper house of Australia’s parliament later that day, McKim, who represents the Green Party, accused Albanese of misleading the public.
These troops and assets, he said, “will be used in such a way to boost capacity for the United States and for Israel to continue to rain down horror on the Iranian people [and] to continue to bomb schools and hospitals in Iran.”
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“Labour was the first government anywhere in the world to cheer on [US President Donald] Trump and [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s illegal war,” he continued. “It was embarrassing, it was mortifying, watching Prime Minister Albanese obsequiously toady his way onto the international stage while the war criminals Trump and Netanyahu committed war crimes.”
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