Australian Strategic Policy Institute Senior Analyst Malcolm Davis says Australia sending a navy warship to the Red Sea would not “leave” the nation short on its defence.
On Thursday, Defence Minister Richard Marles confirmed he was considering sending Australian Navy personnel to assist the US in the Red Sea, with the Coalition urging the government to answer America’s call to deploy a navy warship to the area.
“It doesn’t leave us short in the sense that the Navy has already assured the government that it is capable of sending a warship to the Red Sea and still maintaining its operational requirements here in the Indo-Pacific region,” he told Sky News Australia.
“We have two basic options here, or three basic options really; we can either agree to the request and send a warship to the Red Sea … we can send a warship into the Indo-Pacific to backfill US navy there so that frees up a US navy ship – or we can refuse the request.
“Now if we refuse the request it does not send a strong message of support from Australia to Washington DC at a fairly important time.”
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Here we go again the Americans are drawing us into conflict, we do not have the fire power to protect ourselves yet we remain a puppet to what America wants … do you think they are going to be able to help us in a conflict, America has fallen, …"In God We Trust"
Dont back genocide dont send nothing
Australia should not support the US with their support of Israeli genocide
Us Australian's should worry about our own waters, not the Red Sea is just going to escalate the problem if we send War Ships, Australia, New Zealand and Canada proposed a Ceasefire
“Now if we refuse the request it does not send a strong message of support from Australia to Washington DC at a fairly important time.” Why support the world's biggest criminal organization being Washington.
I hope Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are assisting too, or are they going to leave it to Western countries as usual.
LOL, we've been doing it for decades so how on earth is this a story. Prats…..
We should help!
Bull we've only got 12surface combatants
Australia supports Nazis and now it supports genocide.
The world has changed Australia.
Sending war ship to the Red sea is the wrong decision, if war starts then the ship will be drawn in to participate, is this a war Aussie wants to participate?
According to this bloke’s logic, if America whispers in Australia’s ear that we should go to war with , say Indonesia, then off we go like a good little boy , frightened to upset his father . Sort of sounds like another Ukraine to me , and look how things have gone for them – disregard all the lies and propaganda put out by the very people we are expected to feel obligated to assist . Whilst the current American government is in power ( perhaps the next will be as bad) Australia , together with all other countries, should have nothing to do with them , and if anyone thinks America will save us if a war breaks out , sorry but you have rocks in your head .
Australia, are you in favour of UN's 2-state solution? If not, why? If yes, say no to sending warship which is used to protect Australian shores not Israeli interest. Australians' interest first!
Yeah okay the US want public relations image sorted out because the way the Israelis are going there will be escalation and the Yanks don't want to be SEEN to be the only ones in the Region if and when there's a spike okay that's where the Aussies come in, no training drills in this region okay beware there've got the fourth Largest navy and they want us involved.
No it won't leave us short because we couldn't defend against a canoe attack. Successive incompetent governments have f'ed our military into a coma.
We could send a frigat and the troop carrier if we need to we should
Australians need to take military power from Government hands by having put into law that the Government cannot deploy military forces abroad without a refferendum. Australians pay for all aspects of the military and therefore they are owned by the people and should be answerable to the people.
Australia has no role to play in the current conflict we are not a State of America we are a soveriegn nation who should be neutral and not be involved in supplying any naval vessels. I hope the Australian goverment doesn't do what it always does and grovel to America
Why are we getting involved in something which has nothing to do with us ? We should not send anything, nothing !.
Hey Australian government, try neutrality for once, it may surprise you how it works.
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The Government has already decided…….. the request from Washington is always expected to be obeyed.
We need to but the fuck out of this shit.
Australia is approaching a military conflict with Yemen and who knows if the Middle East might not trigger WW III ? May we say God save the King !
10 percent of the world's trade goes through the Suez. What percentage of that comes to Australia ???.stop being America lap dogs Australia
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He said that Australia is a Sovereign Country. Oh really Malcolm. Last time I looked, we are a Vassel State, controlled by Anglo / American / Zionist criminals. We always have been, and you know it.
Are we sure it's a good idea to be in the area if shit goes haywire… Not saying don't but these things are seasonal not just a weekly trip🤠
Is it just me, or do we sound a lot like New Zealand right now? One ship…well of course we stand ready to assist in the Red Sea, for how long? *This comment only makes sense if read in an Eric Idle accent. 😉
The Red Sea Route is also closely related to Australia. In addition, if Australia enters into military tensions with China, it will be supported by the U.S. military.
No keep the ship here where it is safe and nobody will get hurt.
Um… Why? Who gave that order? 😂
Lol, when western news uses quotation marks, you know they are lying. 😂
Instead of sending ships, ask the apartheid state to stop the atrocities against the Palestinians.
Houthis can turn aussie battle ships into submarines far cheaper than aukus.
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We get involved in all wars and become a target for retaliation.
This is a bad time and very critical. On which side is Australian is on, is it on the side of the world or your friend (USA) and when you faced a full face war who will come for ypur help , the world or you only friend USA?. What message is Australian sending to USA in the eyes of world and to the world what message is australia is sending to them. This is not the time you stand in the middle but this is time you chose a side. The world is alread spliting into two parts; The sides of Russia-China vs USA-Britain; the world is in the side of Russia -China a while Australian is try to play a leader role or middleman position. Australia Stands weaken the side of USA-Britain and give strength to Russia-China and the world. What Coward decision by Australian?. I wish Australian went to work with China?
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