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This is pathetic and harmful behaviour by the Australian government
With regards to the proxy war being waged by NATO against Russia, what Australia needs to understand is that the vast majority of the world sees the situation clearly and is basically on Russia's side. (Yes, this may be a shock to the person who has only been imbibing propaganda about the war but you will quickly find out it's the truth if you talk to any person from Latin America, Africa, Indonesia, the Middle East, China, etc etc about the matter).
So Australia just reinforces its perception of being a pathetic vassal state with this move, given to abjectly craven political stunts like this one. Shame on Albanese and shame on his government. This won't be forgotten and will cost Australia in diplomatic prestige (such as we still command).
Russia invaded Ukraine, they have even tried to assasinate the elected leaders of that country.
They continue to perform what are basically terrorist attacks with long range drones and missiles against civilian targets.
Most recently they destroyed a dam that they controlled, in a manner which could only be achieved from within, that they had spent the last few months filling beyond it's designed capacity.
Despite this, the weapons supplied by NATO for Ukranian defense are given under the proviso that they not be used to attack Russia - hence why the Himars are not shooting into Russia, despite them having the range, accuracy and valid targets.
Whilst some of the world might be on Russias side (the Chinese government would certainly like to absorb Taiwan and are watching to see how the world has reacted), your statement about the majority of the world being on Russias side is laughable, simply based on the visible support from broader Europe - especially the neighbouring countries such as Poland.
Australia is effectively a vassal of the US, that part is true.
The rest of this is just bullshit and you sound like a cooker.
Edit: Hey @lodion@aussie.zone , I was tempted to ask for mod status, but I don't know if I can abide by
The above isn't welcome.
You did better than I did. I've modded you and banned him for 7 days.
I think you did pretty good!