Maybe they've seen how quickly a popular Australian politician's career can be destroyed by certain USA departments/agencies if they prioritize Australia's interests over those of USA MIC and won't just "go along to get along"?
Timmy Taes: Is what Brevette Pfc. Billy Masterson said 👆 clear and detailed enough for you? Did it have to be deciphered this much for the supposed street-smart old fart like yourself?
Hard evidence of such arm twisting and/or subornment will be tough to come by, specially if any pertinent records or witnesses in US/Australia end up inside the zones of total destruction from thermonuclear strikes, we need to do our best to try & preserve the evidence (and the various cities holding them)
No. The USA saved Australia from Japan in WWII. A possible threat could be, if you don't help us now then when China attacks you we won't help you again.
The USA can also send billions of dollars of military spending Australia's way. The authorities will surely get a goodly share of that. In the words of Hillary Clinton, "carrot and stick."
China is Australia's biggest trading partner. China is also the USA's biggest trading partner at 18% of imports. Weird, eh? The trade relations of neoliberal globalism were supposed to prevent war. It seemed to be working too until the USA decided to screw it all up.
That's irrelevant since Blinken told them outright "you are either with us against China or you are against us". Does that give you the details? There is a video of this look for it.
I wrote a comment under the video with that warmonger making his insanity known for all to hear stating that the Australian government officials that he threatened should have thrown his ass in jail for making threats against them and their country! But you know how that went. Lots of ass kissing instead of kicking!
His point was (here's that pronoun again) - as I understood it - that Australia would regret not being a US poodle one way or another. The US will make it dependent if it's not yet.
@ Timmy Taes
Approximately 80% of Australian foreign trade is with China. It makes NO economic sense for Ozzys to antagonize their largest trading partner.
Hard to figure. Maybe there are pictures on file in Arlington VA of them in bed with either live boys or dead girls, as LBJ used to say?
https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/
Maybe they've been warned of unforunate accidents that even a PM might have?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Harold_Holt
Maybe they've seen how quickly a popular Australian politician's career can be destroyed by certain USA departments/agencies if they prioritize Australia's interests over those of USA MIC and won't just "go along to get along"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_CIA_involvement_in_the_Whitlam_dismissal#:~:text=CIA%20involvement%20in%20the%20Whitlam%20dismissal%20is%20an%20allegation%20that,of%20Prime%20Minister%20Gough%20Whitlam.
Or maybe they were just offered a boatload of cash.
Timmy Taes: Is what Brevette Pfc. Billy Masterson said 👆 clear and detailed enough for you? Did it have to be deciphered this much for the supposed street-smart old fart like yourself?
Hard evidence of such arm twisting and/or subornment will be tough to come by, specially if any pertinent records or witnesses in US/Australia end up inside the zones of total destruction from thermonuclear strikes, we need to do our best to try & preserve the evidence (and the various cities holding them)
No. The USA saved Australia from Japan in WWII. A possible threat could be, if you don't help us now then when China attacks you we won't help you again.
The USA can also send billions of dollars of military spending Australia's way. The authorities will surely get a goodly share of that. In the words of Hillary Clinton, "carrot and stick."
China is Australia's biggest trading partner. China is also the USA's biggest trading partner at 18% of imports. Weird, eh? The trade relations of neoliberal globalism were supposed to prevent war. It seemed to be working too until the USA decided to screw it all up.
I am not sure why you are asking me? I have no idea but as the US exports weapons and war I don't really see why it matters?
That's irrelevant since Blinken told them outright "you are either with us against China or you are against us". Does that give you the details? There is a video of this look for it.
I wrote a comment under the video with that warmonger making his insanity known for all to hear stating that the Australian government officials that he threatened should have thrown his ass in jail for making threats against them and their country! But you know how that went. Lots of ass kissing instead of kicking!
His point was (here's that pronoun again) - as I understood it - that Australia would regret not being a US poodle one way or another. The US will make it dependent if it's not yet.
If you need that then tweet Blinken not me.
My bad. I forgot you were very detail oriented.