As Australia’s expands its support to the NATO proxy war against Russia it is critical that the Parliament plays a role in determining when we become involved in overseas conflicts.

In January of this year, I posed the question is Australia currently at war? The evidence available at that time led to the conclusion that Australia is indeed a party to the proxy war being fought against Russia in Ukraine. Despite being party to a deadly and disastrous conflict, there has essentially been no public debate in the media or the Parliament as to Australia’s role for months.

Thus, it was not surprising when the recent announcement of an expansion to Australia’s support to Ukraine barely rated a mention in the media, let alone amongst our elected representatives.

The announcement sees the size of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) training team being deployed to the United Kingdom increasing from 70 to 90 personnel, on a rotational basis, as part of an $186 million expansion and extension of ‘Operation Kudu.’ This takes the Australian Governments total support to Ukraine to $910 million – nearly a billion dollars.

Whilst both the Defence and Foreign Minister provided statements about Australia’s ongoing support to Ukraine, what was missing was any analysis of the effectiveness of Australia’s support so far, the progress of the war, or Ukraine’s future prospects.

For the war is going terribly for Ukraine and its Western sponsors.

With the catastrophic failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, the war is effectively lost for Ukraine. True, the fighting may continue for many more months, or even years, but the final outcome will be on terms dictated........

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