@DDTimor_Leste@michaelsnape@Dominiq48917046 Spat on; mistreated, same difference. if you speak to veterans of the war, they will frankly tell you what they thought of the anti-war cadre, and how they were received coming back home.
@michaelsnape@Dominiq48917046 To add on: many of those blokes had a tough exterior, but they’d also have a heart of gold under there. My father was a nasho in ‘68, stationed in Malaya as part of 8RAR, and he would purchase bundles of toys & amenities for Viet orphanages when he was visiting later in life.
@michaelsnape@Dominiq48917046 If she were old enough, she would have been one of those who spat at our diggers on their way back home. To say something like that, it’s like she’s never bothered looking deeper into what her own grandfather went through. Incurious about both her country and family history.
@Slangalangutang@lowlandsapien The American security umbrella guarantees Australian sovereignty at a severe discount to our national defense spending and strategic posture. We would be forced to re-introduce National Service & cut spending in areas you'd be dependent on without the ANZUS alliance.
@mrwittmayer The relationship with Western Europe could all shift with a change in government. Israeli hospitals just got an R&D partnership deal with hospitals in the most left-wing state in Australia.
@Squattocrat Which way White Man:
British-Jewish mischlings who pray to Our Sovereign King Charles III
Deracinated NatSoc race worship with renegade anti-zios like Syrian Girl
@HeTows@aryehazan The only way to fight the extremist hilltop settler terrorists is to fund and make concessions to the moderate hilltop settler terrorists. If it doesn't work, that's a sign you're not doing it enough.
@manda_lani@nickyboyboy33@JacobALinker I don't know. I don't think the polls reflect reality. The most doggedly anti-Israel Jews I know are those with little connection to Judaism or Jewish people-hood. They're cosmopolitans with a background of exiles.
@HeTows@lion14344@anaraintuitive Eshkol also chose to combat the Egyptian encirclement and build-up at the cost of the relationship with France. De Gaulle was beside himself when he heard about the war in 1967. Part of Israel’s historical tenacity is learning how to say no.
@cyndigist@jewyorkstofmind The coup resulted in AKP holding onto power by convincing Turkish Nationalists that their sovereignty was under threat. It made Turkish institutions stray away from an Atlantic posture, and the huffing and puffing over the S400s intensified this drift.
@cyndigist@jewyorkstofmind That's quite untrue, considering the anti-democratic coup that Obama's deep-state supported. Why did Fethullah Gulen's generals attempt its coup with four F-16s? Or when Obama alienated Turkey's general staff in their support for the Syrian PKK?