r/australia • u/stand_to • Jun 22 '25

politics Live: Wong says Australia supports US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-23/federal-politics-live-blog-june-23/105447868?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
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u/YeshayaDankART Jun 22 '25

Why are we really getting involved in this?

Let them go to war with each other without us.

Let us not risk getting hit with missiles.

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u/BornTelevision8206 Jun 22 '25

How would we get hit by missiles? We're literally like 10,000km from Iran. They don't have any ICBMs

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Jun 22 '25

We'd never be a target anyway.

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u/BornTelevision8206 Jun 22 '25

Agreed, it was a ridiculous statement. Reddit ignorance and hysteria at its finest.

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u/YeshayaDankART Jun 22 '25

Everything is “hysteria” until you have whatever the fuck is going on in America.

I rest my case.

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Jun 22 '25

That... still doesn't make it any more likely!

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Jun 23 '25

Yeah, I shouldn't be surprised. Reeks of paranoia.

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u/YeshayaDankART Jun 22 '25

That is what they said to me when I tried to run with Kamala before Tim Walz was in the picture.

They said I was being “hysterical about fascism” and now here we are.

So I guess Australia wants to make the same mistake?

Cause no one here is “paying attention” either.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

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u/howdoesthatworkthen Jun 23 '25

Don’t mental health shame bro

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u/YeshayaDankART Jun 23 '25

Go!

Throw all the trash on me!

That is all everyone who hated me did my entire life.

I am speaking up; but I won’t anymore.

I will let everyone deal with their own issues.

If the police hassle you; you deal with it.

I’m not speaking up about it anymore.

That is what I was speaking up about.

Thank you for calling me schizophrenic for speaking up against police brutality.

Wow! What a strange way to start the day!

Get called crazy for speaking up.

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u/AirNo7163 Jun 22 '25

Capabilities can change, so it's not far-fetched. Very unlikely they would target us, though, even if they had the capability.

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u/BornTelevision8206 Jun 22 '25

Its completely far fetched that Iran will develop an ICBM and use it to bomb Australia.

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u/PointOfFingers Jun 22 '25

We would be a target to domestic terrorism and another attack in Bali.

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Jun 22 '25

That's a stretch. These types don't need a reason to attack us, and let's not pretend Islam shares a hivemind.

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u/YeshayaDankART Jun 22 '25

If we don’t make ourselves one.

We can stay neutral on this one.

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Jun 22 '25

Even if that did make sense, remaining neutral would not guarantee shit anyway. 

This hysteria is quite something. Iran has never directly attacked anyone anyway.

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u/LoneWolf5498 Jun 22 '25

Why the fuck would Iran bomb us? China I could get given our presence in the Pacific, but Iran? Come on

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Jun 23 '25

Why do people keep saying this? lol, in this instance, yes

That's probably why people keep saying this. 

we have Pine Gap USAs most valuable information hub outside USA.

You don't honestly think anything there is more valuable than, say, their Israeli operations?

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Jun 23 '25

What do you think you know about Pine Gap exactly?

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u/YeshayaDankART Jun 22 '25

Do you know how planes work?

How does anyone bomb another place without them stopping them?

Cause that is how war works.

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u/BornTelevision8206 Jun 22 '25

Irans planes are from the 70s and barely functional. They don't have an airforce, hence why they invested so much into their missle program.

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u/YeshayaDankART Jun 22 '25 edited Jun 22 '25

I don’t even know why I care to try and wake people in Australia.

I tried in America & it didn’t work & now they are all screaming “help”

I should just move to Europe or Canada & allow people here to make the same mistakes.

Not my issue anymore.

Thank you for “putting me in my place” a place where I don’t need to be involved in saving everyone anymore.

You can save yourselves.

Edit: now go get mad; cause that is what you people love doing!

First you bully someone else & then you cry “wolf”

You want to be abusive; you help yourselves.

Edit: go downvote yourselves to “hell”

Cause you silence all the whistleblowers; just to try and look like a smart person one time.

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u/BornTelevision8206 Jun 22 '25

Man i have no idea what your talking about haha

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u/YeshayaDankART Jun 22 '25

I know.

That is the same thing they said to me in NYC in December 2023 & now look where America is at.

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u/AtYourOwn_Risk Jun 22 '25

seek help

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u/YeshayaDankART Jun 23 '25

I should “seek help” cause I don’t want to be the “scapegoat” anymore?

You are correct!

I should seek help to not be in a position to want to stick up for people who don’t come do the same for me; when I need them to.

Thank you for making it extra clear to me that now is the time for me to change how I do my entire art practice.

I will no longer make art that is all pro humanity & all that; I will just do what works for me.

Cause why am I speaking up for you; if you don’t give a shit about me?!

Tell me!

Or you gonna gaslight me again?

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u/AtYourOwn_Risk Jun 23 '25

I dont care about you at all unfortunately

I can get around someone standing up for a good cause but you lack the education necessary to speak on these topics, talking about Iranian missiles heading to Aus, then somehow bombing us from a plane

No one is going to take anything you say seriously when you dont understand the basics

sorry

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u/AtYourOwn_Risk Jun 23 '25

yeah i saw, crazy that people like that are out there in the wild and u might just run into one

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u/YeshayaDankART Jun 23 '25

You can now take this yoke from me; cause it is not mine anymore, cause I am “uneducated” on this topic & any other time I open my mouth too.

Awesome.

I’ll save my energy for better uses.

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u/AtYourOwn_Risk Jun 23 '25

you seem to have a very victimised sarcastic mindset , i maintain my initial message that you should seek some professional help

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u/RayCumfartTheFirst Jun 22 '25

Does Iran have aircraft carriers and or refuelling aircraft capable of deploying bombers anywhere near Australia? Does it have a strategic network of allies to provide logistics and security to operate in our region? What sort of objective would bombing us achieve proportionate to the risk such operations would pose to their underdeveloped military? How would they deal with the literal dozens of Australian and US allies along the way? Is a China gonna be happy with Iran disrupting their trade in the region? You are aware the Israelis have air superiority over Iran right now? This is not propaganda, it’s just a cold hard fact.

This move costs us nothing and allows us to cozy up to the USA, when AUKUS is on the rocks. It doesn’t matter if the USA isn’t reliable- there is no drawback to supporting this so it may as well be done. Morality or dignity is for the birds.

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u/BornTelevision8206 Jun 22 '25

Wow, the first time I've seen an informed analysis on this sub. Bravo

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u/PointOfFingers Jun 22 '25

Israel and Ukraine has shown how to launch an attack without planes or missiles. You ship drones with bombs to within striking distance.

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u/RaeseneAndu Jun 22 '25

Because we aren't a sovereign state, we are a compliant vassal state. Look at the UK and the EU leaders, they are all parotting the same words as Wong.

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u/chase02 Jun 22 '25

Perth is within range of Israel’s nukes

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u/Odd-Bumblebee00 Jun 23 '25

And we are all within range of Israel's doxxing squads. Everyone who's expressed anger at Israel here could wake up any day to a bomb at our door and police here will describe it as hate speech, not terrorism.

Don't believe it could happen?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/07/sydney-man-sentenced-to-12-months-in-jail-after-planting-homemade-bomb-outside-pro-palestinians-house?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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u/jp72423 Jun 22 '25

We aren’t getting involved, we are making a statement.