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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to take the “strongest possible action” against Russia if it is confirmed that Russian forces killed a Melbourne school teacher in their captivity in Ukraine.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Send a fucking plane full of snakes and spiders!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

Mate if you've been holding back helping the Ukrainians more until something like this has happened, theres something wrong with the your perception of this conflict.

Also that Melbourne School Teachers a true aussie hero.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

What could Australia even do? The article mentions Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 and how they kept relations with Russia through all of that. An Australian chap who voluntarily went to fight for Ukraine and got killed isn't going to be able to conjure much reason to change that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

What's important here is that the teacher was captured. And killing captured prisoners is a war crime. Australia is not talking about Australians dying on the field or getting captured, they are talking about Russia possibly executing a prisoner of war.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

What could Australia even do?

Fuck all, it's grandstanding.

[–] captain_aggravated 7 points 23 hours ago

File a strongly worded letter with the department of filing strongly worded letters, and then send out a press packet saying they've done it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago

Maybe some vagin?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

Yeah that's what I'm not understanding. He voluntarily joined the foreign legion. If he was captured then tortured or executed that's one thing. Tragic, but he knew the risks.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Empty rhetoric just makes him look weak. "strongest possible action" is meaningless. He's tried to sound tough but by saying nothing he comes across as disingenuous. And politicians wonder why people hate them!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That's diplomatic speak for, "We will go to war over this." International diplomacy is nothing like you and I talking to one another.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

We won't go to war over this.

We will threaten to add sanctions and that's it.

It took us a year and a half to send bushmasters that we were retiring

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

His advisor told him before the interview what the strongest possible action they could take is. It wasn't very strong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That wet flog won’t do jack.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Would your prefer a potato?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

I’d prefer neither LibLab are the same shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

The potato would be arranging to send Australian prisoners to fight for the Russians, because nothing makes a potato happier than miserable people feeling more miserable. Don't worry .. he's not a monster ..