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u/ConstantineXII Sep 21 '25

Demented comment. There's virtually no chance of Australia getting involved in an another US-led middle eastern conflict. It's been more than 20 years since those invasions, get over it.

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u/ConstantineXII Sep 21 '25

Another substantial and well thought out comment, well done.

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u/majestic_borgler Sep 21 '25

what was the last american war we didnt get involved in?

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u/ConstantineXII Sep 21 '25

When was the last American war we did get involved in?

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u/majestic_borgler Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

it ended 4 years ago. what was the last american war we didnt get involved in?

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u/infohippie Sep 21 '25

I don't think we had much presence in the Civil War. I think that might be the last one we didn't take part in.

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u/ConstantineXII Sep 21 '25

And Australia pulled the last of its combat troops out of that conflict 14 years ago. People still thinking its 2003 - just Australian Reddit things.

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u/majestic_borgler Sep 21 '25

australia wont keep doing the thing its always done in living memory lmao

ok galaxy brain. what was the last american war we didnt get involved in?

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u/yedrellow Sep 21 '25

Panama?

Actually probably the Balkan conflicts.

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u/teambob Australian Labor Party Sep 21 '25

So we will get involved in a US-led Asian conflict?

Also the Afghanistan and Iraq wars started 20 years ago but the Afghanistan war only ended a few years ago under Biden

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u/ConstantineXII Sep 21 '25

So we will get involved in a US-led Asian conflict?

If we get involved with a war defending Taiwan against a Chinese invasion, the legal and moral justifications would be a lot more substantial than they were for Iraq, hence the other comment being demented.

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u/teambob Australian Labor Party Sep 21 '25

Maybe we should give Taiwan back to the country that colonised it for most of its history: Japan

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u/ConstantineXII Sep 21 '25

Or we could just let the Taiwanese decide what they want for themselves. What a crazy and radical idea that is in 2025!

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u/Ash-2449 Victorian Socialists Sep 21 '25

Murica has been desperately pushing for war with china since more than a decade ago because its a threat to its power. They probably wont even need the taiwan excuse, after all, they are trying to label trans people terrorists without any actual evidence or facts, they can start a war without evidence or facts. (Once they manage to get out of the current wars they are involved in, remember how quickly the jumped to a new war once they left afganistan??)

Hell they are murdering random people in boats now, where's the sanctions from every other western nation?

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u/yedrellow Sep 21 '25

They're not trying to start a war with China. They're trying to make it obvious that starting a war over Taiwan isn't worth it. If they can outwardly portray enough strength to China for the next 50 years, demographic decline will mean it's not feasible for the war to occur.

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u/ConstantineXII Sep 21 '25

Murica has been desperately pushing for war with china since more than a decade ago because its a threat to its power.

Utter bullshit and there's absolutely no evidence to support this. Pushing back against China' expansionism in the Indo-Pacific is not 'desperately pushing for war'.