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Cmon, not being able to take advantage of a the general movement away from major parties doesn’t just happen by itself…you need to constantly work at it.

I like how you ALP types pretend that the government is doing anything bar the bare minimum, and there's no difference between what was said and the current state of Ukraine aid. You're all interventionist when there's literally nothing at stake for you

I'm not an ALP type - and people get this wrong a lot. I've never been a member of the ALP and have never worked for them. I'm a fully functioning adult public policy type that doesn't give a shit about political party personalities. Interventionism when you have nothing at stake is called ethics

It's also called the answer to "why is this important?"

Imagine warning people who have lived through Ukrainian history in the past 100 years not to make an enemy of... the Australian Greens.

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It's a real prick thing to say. This whole experience has shown that he hasn't actually engaged with the subject of the Ukraine War beyond a surface level, or he would know how thankful Ukraine has been for our military aid. It's a damning mark on a man seeking to "replace Labor".

What military aid? The rusty bushmasters or the unusable tanks? They didn't want the busted choppers we tried to give them

Hang on - we didn't want to give them Tigers, we wanted to bury them, which we did. I've seen this angle you're referring to - you need to give thought to your media consumption. It is telling you things that aren't real, to make you angry, so you'll come back.

It's unclear to me what concrete form of actual support the Greens are providing to Ukraine, that criticism puts at risk. Also, the idea that support for Ukraine is dependent on the Ukrainian community in Australia being sufficiently grateful to the Greens seems pretty wild.

It's literally the same as it is now, except the anti war party doesn't want to profit from weapons sales whilst the ALP has nothing to sell to Ukraine other than giving away the bushmasters and old M1A1s

Think through what you're saying. Donating military assets doesn't actually profit the military industrial complex anymore than selling your Kia profits Kia. But! Giving money to Ukraine, which they then use to buy those same weapons with, does profit those corps. Military aid kills profits.