This is posted here not to endorse a political party message, but to point out the breathtaking naivety of the Greens defence and foreign policies. It looks like a student activist poster on a campus billboard. What is their alternative? Defusing international tensions with a crack team of deradicalization program facilitators? The Greens' policies play to their left leaning base, being hostile to the United States, a well worn leftist article of faith, and their absolute belief in non-violence, even in the current world situation in which there is a real possibility of war with China. That is the whole point of the recently announced AUKUS alliance, and the submarine deal; to counter belligerent world powers. Nobody likes war. As just war theory holds, it should only be used as a last resort, but it should be an option. If the Greens had been around in the 1930s, perhaps their strategy to avoid war with Nazi Germany would have been to offer Hitler counselling to help him address unresolved childhood trauma. Surely he wasn't irredeemably evil, they'd reason. He liked art, nature, his pet Alsatian dogs, and claimed to be a vegetarian.
In the words of Kim Seong-kon, professor emeritus of English at Seoul National University and distinguished visiting professor at George Washington University:
"Peace is given only to those who are strong and prepared for war."
https://aijac.org.au/featured/greens-foreign-policy-would-make-australia-less-safe/
https://www.nationthailand.com/perspective/30340951
https://www.nationthailand.com/perspective/30340951
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