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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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[–] No1@aussie.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

Send a fucking plane full of snakes and spiders!

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.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 8 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 14 points 22 hours 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.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 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.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 10 points 21 hours ago

What could Australia even do?

Fuck all, it's grandstanding.

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.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Makhno@lemmy.world 0 points 19 hours ago

Maybe some vagin?

[–] caboose2006@lemm.ee 0 points 13 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.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours 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!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 11 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.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 points 9 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

[–] Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That wet flog won’t do jack.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Would your prefer a potato?

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 3 points 19 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 ..

[–] Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone -1 points 12 hours ago

I’d prefer neither LibLab are the same shit.