curtail the us 100% agree, stop exports to ukraine 100% disagree so they will be last on the list of parties i vote for
insane to think if Australia was invaded i’d want a bunch of other pacifists countries telling me how bad they feel and good luck
curtail the us 100% agree, stop exports to ukraine 100% disagree so they will be last on the list of parties i vote for
insane to think if Australia was invaded i’d want a bunch of other pacifists countries telling me how bad they feel and good luck
Yeah, it sucks. They won’t wake up until they find themselves marching alongside One Nation and worse chanting support for Putin’s genocide. Perhaps not even then. They are the only environment, climate, social justice party of any substance and experience and they are still well worth a vote but they are stupidly naive on some issues. They need a long sit down with the German greens and a frank talk about Putin and Afd.
Here’s what Greens (including David Shoebridge) are actually advocating for in Parliament: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Foreign_Affairs_Defence_and_Trade/UkraineSupport47/Report/Additional_Comments_from_the_Australian_Greens - note they are very much not supporting Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
A position against aggression is a good one, the mistake here is deferring to the UN Security Council to decide which aggressors we should retaliate against, which is sadly a flawed mechanism.
The Greens are against all arms trade in general. They don’t want to send weapons overseas for that reason but do support other aid to Ukraine, Notably, they support tougher sanctions on Russia and Russia’s allies (including those buying Russian fossil fuels).
None of that is “marching alongside One Nation”. The Greens have a pacifist policy - one might say naively pacifist - but it’s the opposite policy of Pauline Hanson’s One Neuron, who want to give away Australian land to US arms manufacturers and are all for the sale of fossil fuels and bombs to anyone.