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.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    That’s diplomatic speak for, “We will go to war over this.” International diplomacy is nothing like you and I talking to one another.

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      2 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