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WWII hero Field Marshal Montgomery once observed the worst calamities of the 20th century – Communism, Fascism, Nazism – all originated in Europe. All had to be eradicated from outside Europe. The calamity of the 21st century, Islam, may not have originated in Europe, but Europe harbours and abets it. Especially the half-century reign of terror that’s the Islamic Republic of Iran: the Ayatollah Khomeini was sheltered in France (after even Saddam Hussein had had enough of the bastard and kicked him out of Iraq), while he fomented the calamity of the Islamic revolution in Iran.
For half a century, the regime he founded has been allowed to export death and terror across the world, while the ‘rules-based order’ spinelessly refused to do a damned thing about it. Now that an American president has finally had the guts to do something, once again cowardly, venal, Europe is dragging its heels and surrendering faster than they did to Hitler’s armies.
Europe is resisting demands from Donald Trump to provide help in keeping open the Strait of Hormuz, with the US President saying “numerous countries have told me they’re on the way”, without naming any of them.
France, Germany and the UK have made clear they will not send military assets to join an offensive campaign in the Gulf.
Of course not. Why would a ragtag of Islamic caliphates do anything to help stop an Islamic terrorist regime?
While the president has consistently said that the war effort is ahead of schedule and that America has “completely decimated Iran”, he was sharply critical of allies who refused to provide help in unclogging the Strait of Hormuz.
He questioned why America should continue to underwrite their security but, at the same time, insisted that the US did not “need anybody … We don’t need them”.
America should finally cut the apron strings to mendicant Europe, which has hidden behind American might for 80 years, while relentlessly thumbing their noses at Washington. We saw their true colours when Trump first suggested America would abandon NATO: they squealed like stuck pigs and fell over themselves to meet their treaty obligations for perhaps their first time in their histories.
But that was just money. Now, they’re being asked to do what Americans have done since 1941: put their lives on the line to save Europe from its own fecklessness – and they’re running up the white flag faster than you can say ‘surrender monkeys’.
Mr Trump said the US had the strongest military in the world, that Washington did not need any help and that he was only asking “not because we need ’em, but because I want to find out how they react”.
Mr Trump said he had been a “big critic of all of the protecting of countries because I know that we’ll protect them. And if we ever needed help, they won’t be there for us. I’ve just known that for a long period of time”.
Leave them to their own devices. Let them lead themselves off to the Halal slaughterhouse.
While Europe is feckless and gutless, meanwhile, Australia is just irrelevant.
The Iran war is another wake-up call for our nation. No nation has had more wake-up calls, yet on defence we’re determined to stick to our Mogadon habit […]
Though we are the biggest island nation in the world, our navy is effectively defunct. Donald Trump announced a long list of nations he would like to contribute to escorting cargo vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. We weren’t on it.
Of course not. Decades of weak, worthless, Labor governments have so gutted our navy that we’re the skinny kid with coke-bottle glasses no one even wants on their team for a game of Battleships. (Well, it could be worse: we could be the New Zealand ‘navy’, most of which is currently rusting at the bottom of a Pacific lagoon.)
It’s notable that despite Australia being the second or third closest ally to the US, after Britain and, all things considered, probably Japan too, we weren’t asked for a naval contribution. This is because the Americans know that as a military force the Australian navy is essentially non-existent at the moment.
In our surface fleet we notionally have seven Anzac-class frigates, though they are so old that to send them into harm’s way now would rank surely as a species of elder abuse, and three Hobart-class air warfare destroyers. The frigates each have eight vertical launch cells, just eight. Many modern destroyers have well over 100.
The Iranians fire missiles and drones at ships. The Anzacs deploy fairly short-range Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles in their vertical launch cells. In terms of self-defence, that’s pretty much it […] Nor do the Anzacs have sophisticated counter-drone systems […] If our Anzac frigates ever did fire off their missiles they would be exhausted and in need of replenishment in five minutes.
Mostly because, even in the face of the most obviously dire global strategic environment since the late 1930s, the pathetic socialist Albanese government has actually cut spending (its lying boasts to the contrary notwithstanding – but then, this a government whose finance minister can’t even tell the difference between net and gross amounts).
If we ever lose the US alliance we are completely defenceless. No doubt Beijing will never want to do this, but in terms of sheer military capability China could do everything to Australia that the US has done to Iran. The difference is, unlike Iran, we couldn’t fight back. And unlike Iran, we’d run out of fuel in five minutes.
We are a deeply foolish nation to let this entirely avoidable set of circumstances continue.
We are not a serious nation any more, end of story.
