Lets give the US a base in northern Australa for their troops, on top of the Pine Gap surveillence facility for their "intelligence" agencies. Let us then replace the contract with France for submarines which are designed to operate in the shallow waters of Austalia's littoral with ones which are bigger and noisier and are not designed for that purpose but to team up with team US to patrol waters further afield. And that effort is to threaten our largest trading partner.
None of the above helps Australia's security. It weakens our naval defense and creates targets if the USA's provocations create a war in Taiwan, as their provocations created a war in Ukraine. Thankfully, I dont think the Chinese will fall for that. But, it is still a bloody stupid thing to do which only benefits the USA military industrial complex (and a little to the UK).
Oh, and to add to your list above:
and E) is Australia's dominant trading partner.
Great article, Caitlin. And nice graphic too.
PS: How long before before AUKUS becomes a synonym for stupid?
What Australia needs badly is 'No war or preparations for war without parliamentary approval.'
In Australia there is an organisation called Australians for War Powers Reform (AWPR) and it is worth supporting, run by an extremely qualified person such as Alison Broinowski.
Details on Alison and the AWPR are on the web in detaill.
It seems to an observer that the stumbling block to proceeding with such rational legislation is the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, a lady with Chinese ancestry who for some unknown reason (to the Australian people, that is) seems to be the loudest voice against such logical changes. One questions whether her ancestry is a contributing factor to this almost arrogant rejection of taking a progressive step in offering ALL elected members a vote, not just the elected few forming part of the Prime Mimnister's close cabal, the third outspoken member being the Minister for Defence, a US military sycophant if ever there was one. We even have an ex-US Admiral doing some of our Defence planning. What next!
I am totally disgusted with the fact that we are being led along by the nose by a totally warlike country, forced into debt from which we are never likely to recover leaving us as a country even more of a pathetic joke than we have been in out blind allegiance to US warmongering in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, carrying the bags of the US plunderers, still raking off the oil from Libya and Syria and since WWII, being responsible for the deaths of twenty million people.
I happen to like Americans, dealt with them all my working life and nothing can change that. But the management of that country is now well past its due date and if in the election of 2024 they do not see the errors of their ways, the controls by the military / industrial profiteers, the quite obvious Israeli controls over b0th houses and the frightening standards and values of their present politicians supported by the Neocon brigades, thick in the halls of Washington, then the world will crumble under wars and more wars.
I just so happen to think that a worthwhile relationship with country like China would be an easy task if this country met them halfway, showed them that we do respect what they have become from a virtual peasant country to a major power and go out of our way to consolidate a fine relationship. We need to get out from under the US criminal influence, as listed above and stand beside all the people of the world in pursuing peace.
It is a worthwhxie objective.? Ask the young people. Do they want a war decided on in this country by a small minority of politicians, who for reasons manufactured by another country for hegemonic and greedy reasons controlled by profit motives, or do they feel that they can accept a two way equal partnership with China and Russia.
I can accept such a peaceful partnership without hesitation and I bet there are millions like me in Australia.
I'm well aligned with your view. So it would be like the US Congress?
I'm ashamed to admit that I thought it "a given" that the government had to seek approval of the parliament to get the country involved in any such undertakings/preparations. Alison Boikowski looked familiar to me and after some googling I know why. Now, to be honest, I don't trust our present parliamentarian membership. Too few of a good people in
there (in my opinion) but maybe it could be a starting point (?)
Switzerland only joined the JN in 2002 because that was the will of its people. Put it to Australians (apathic by large, as they are) I think they would vote for the country to be neutral. Given our resources and geographical position with the smart and competent management we could be sustainable and self-reliant. Thank you for your reply.
100% on the money as always. The only part that shocked me was the scrutiny about the illicit non-disclosure of the golf excursion. What? Your government completely surrenders its sovereignty to another country run by batshit crazies that orders you to involve itself directly in its war-to-come against your largest trading partner, and anybody is worried about the possibility that, as a sweetener for the deal that at least puts your entire military on the front lines of said war, your defense minister got to play some golf in the US somewhere during his last boondoggle to DC. How is this remotely possible? How is it that every Aussie doesn’t see through this? How is it that in the USA, everybody doesn’t see through this and the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine? ARE VIRTUALLY ALL OF OUR FELLOW CITIZENS UNDER SOME KIND OF EVIL SPELL?
To quote Charlie Brown from another context, I can’t stand it. I just can’t stand it.
YES! It's all SO nuts--especially given the threat of nuclear war, and the environmental/resource crises bearing down on us.
I'll say this. The success of the propaganda narratives around this, and around greenwashing, show that if that power were ever used to unite people everywhere behind a plan to transition to a sustainable future--which would require giving up a lot of wealth and privilege for the richest half of humanity, especially those at the top but even the middle-class majority--pointing out the somewhat vague benefits of a restored sense of purpose, a decent future for our kids, better physical and emotional health, etc--surely we could get buy in for even a drastic, wrenching change (which is now necessary). I mean, if it's that easy to get people to consent to warmongering that may well lead to nuclear war and human extinction...over what, a threat to the sovereignty of Taiwan, really?
Hollywood films like don't look up are designed to place the psychological burdens onto the "little people" so they don't have to.
Hollywood (cia) also created all the drama depictions of Russian sleeper cells hiding under the westerners beds poised to steal their patriotic lint for generations, that has now manufactured all the Putin bogeyman syndrome they all suffer from.
They can't see any of this because their minds are warped sins childhood. Add in public education (indoctrination and obedience training) and you get a population of compliant docile tax check signing serfs. Who think "voting" gives them a say.
We were indeed stooges. I kinda knew it, but it really didn't sink in until much later...in fact, I think it sinks in a little more with each passing day. Thanks to Caitlin for providing some daily relief.
Well, if you're going to be annexed, at least allow yourself to be 6 to 10 additional states. Maybe divide yourself up to the size of Delaware. You could control the electoral college!
Except that none of this is about protecting the homeland. Nobody is actually threatening the US. It's US hegemony and the petrodollar that are threatened--and I've seen heartening stories about how the overuse of sanctions have come back to bite the DC cabal, as many nations are defecting, notably in the Middle East. Along with the huge n umber of illegal sanctions, there have been several cases of outright theft of other countries' resources stored in US (or UK) banks. THIS is what the anti-China hysteria is about, because China's economic strength is enabling these defections.
you are right. -- but i expect countries which are bombed, or attacked with swarms of drones, or torpedoed from submarines, are going to retaliate by attacking the places where these attacks are coming from. and that might be australia and not the USA homeland.
I agree, which means that the entire “liberal establishment” that is Western “democracy” will be attacked. I’m not happy about that, but I can see how my good middle class life is predicated on the suffering and loses of others. I’ve fought it all my life but I’ve never renounced it. So, I’ll be paying the bill too, even if my intentions were good and those other “bad” Americans had bad intentions.
Good on you Jean Wymen. The Americans who realise that their nice middle class lives are built on the corpses of the other are few and far between. Just as the 'third world' was emerging from centuries of European colonialism, it got blasted by the neocolonialism of the USA. The blowback inevitably is also felt by the US underclass who suffer from lack of health care, a free education, gun violence, racism and social inequalities which are too numerous to mention here.
Thank you Indu, for the kind words and world truths. I made a reply but Substack didn’t see fit to post it here. Suffice it to say that attempting some humility about my privilege and confronting it in my peers is my new attempt to right the wrongs of the past. But wow!!!! are middle class Americans thick! 😝. That finger is always pointing outward at someone else, while they are completely blind to the board in their own eye!
Exactly right.. The end game of world domination the USrAel deep state has been after for a generation has failed and as I predicted long ago as soon as the USA starts to go down every country they fμcked over is going to want to get their last kicks in.
This is all the desperation of a dying empire.
But like every abusive relationship where the abuser is being outed they become more abusive to ty and maintain control till it all comes to a head with either the victim's death or theirs. Its true in the domestic as well as the international community. And make no mistake the opulant psychopaths runing western society are exactly as I describe.
Sadly the useful idiot public who have become so victimized by propaganda that they believe our rullers when they say "why do you make me beat you"
This is why the fascist censorship and beat down of whistleblowers is so prevalent and allowed. The enablers of abuse in all main stream sectors help triangulate the psychological and physical abuse as they all benefit from it.
The entire western punitive "rules based" social and cultural indoctrination systems is dedicated to maintaining the abusive status quo. And they all profit off human suffering.
There is no rule of law, only collusion to the end game.
yeah, except that money begets power which begets money--they're intertwined. And the third leg of the unholy trinity of our enemy--the corporate-government-media complex, is just as important as the other two, as it protects them, by bullshitting the people into going along with a program designed to enrich the already rich, keep power in the hands of the powerful, AT ALL COSTS. These costs have always included the wellbeing of the poor countries and the poor within the rich countries; now future generations and ecosystems are also being sacrificed.
The presence of US military personnel is Darwin and surrounds is currently significant and looks set to increase. Militaries around the the world condition troops to hate and dehumanise their alleged enemies, none more so than the US and Darwin is home to a large ethnic Chinese population.
If they no anything about Japan, Okinowa or the Marshall Islands, they might be getting a bit worried.
"Marles, who is currently facing scrutiny in Australia for being illicitly secretive about the nature of a free golf trip he went on in his last visit to the United States, has said that the DSR "will underpin our Defence policy for decades to come.”"
I'd be shocked if all that Marles got was a golfing trip. Shows that his masters consider him a cheap whore.
Axtually, I'd be even more concerned if that was in fact all Marles got. It's one thing to sell out, to take silver over lead. It's another thing entirely to sell yourself practically for free because you just love master and actually believe his crap.
The shadow state installed all the sycophants into every western allies bations to purposely turn that country into a vassle...people have no idea how deeply embeded all western countries are to the clandestine operations that are running them all.
All this confirms that the United States is an empire and that its so-called allies (Australians, Europeans, Asians) are merely the equivalent of the peregrine cities of ancient Rome.
I totally agree. The US is in the 1st throes of empire collapse. But I don’t see that as Australia’s fate. Australia seems more like Poland at the beginning of the 2nd world war and in that scenario, the US is the German empire. I think Australia has more to fear from the melting Antarctica than it does from their kow towing to us.
Everything depends on how the fall of the American empire will unfold. If the neo-cons are not ejected from power, things will only get worse, the fall will be violent and the Empire will not accept it, i.e. it will be ready to go to the apocalypse. The neo-cons are psychopaths, and the problem is that they stay in power regardless of political change: they just change their targets. With the Democrats it's Russia, with the Republicans it's China.
The other problem is that Western leaders are unable to think in terms other than submission to Washington. Here in France, we have Macron who says everything and its opposite but in the end, he remains wisely aligned behind Washington. And dishonors my country a little more every day.
Yes, I’ve thought about that— we can go down like the British Empire, slow but somewhat dignified, or like the Romans—laid waste by several invasions as our leaders get more and more corrupt. But after watching Byedone, I’m thinking it could be a new ‘MURKAN way of collapse— one led by the leaders. I’m thinking the Democrats don’t want to lead—they get everything they want from the Rethuglicans—notice how none of Trump’s initiatives have been reversed by our feckless Resident. Also, if they wanted to win, they wouldn’t have run old Joe. Noboby likes him or wants him but we will have to vote for him to keep the other psychopath’s out of office. It’s a neat little trick, thought up by the Clinton’s and financed by the corporations. I have a feeling that’s what happened in your country with Le Pen against Macron. So I think what we’ll get in our collapse is (more) corporate rule with little skirmishes (civil wars) in the country that effectively destroy cohesion among the populace and institute military “law”. Like we have now! 😬
In the end, this leads me to conclude that we do not live in a democracy but in a plutocracy. A false elite based on money holds all the levers that control access to power, elections are only simulacra. When we make a list of the leaders who govern in what we call the collective West, we realize that there is not one to redeem, that not one has the makings of a statesman. But this band of idiots is ready to go to the point of nuclear confrontation to save their power.
Anglo-colonial alliance aka Five eyes has gone completely bananas. The Financial Times yesterday treated us to a hysterical story about why this was a must-do, because of “Chinese aggression” which is their standard fake news.
“Chinese aggression” = outworking and out-innovating America = whipping America like a rented mule economically. China wants America to thrive so it can buy Chinese goods, simple as that. It’s just like the thinking behind the Marshall Plan.
Countires around the world has finally beginning to dare see that the US is treating the world as either vassals or a national security threats. There's no other position. You're with us or against us. This is a nightmarish scene with only one outcome, world destruction. And neither party gets it. The party's over.
Israel is the controller of all their brain stems. Mossad and CIA are one and the same,,,Yet to point out that about the empires new cloths is conveniently conjured up as anti-Semitic.
Why do you think the constant bludgeoning with ww2 documentarys is all about..making sure you still feel adiquetly guilty and full of feelings of reparations so you overlook the truth of the matter.
If the Australian people passively accept this narrative and enable their government to submit totally to the wishes of their overmasters in the US government, then Australians will have proved themselves even dumber and more cowardly than Americans, which would be quite a feat.
And, then, we click our heels, or whatever is the metaphor, for further yes, sir: “Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has agreed to attend the NATO summit in Lithuania in July after coming under criticism when it appeared he would skip the high-powered gathering.”
The metaphor that went through my mind when reading the article was the freshmen and sophomores trying to curry favor with the juniors and seniors by inviting them to party in their house (continent) while their parents were away.
We'll be over at ten, Aussies! Make sure you've got plenty of beer and the keys to your parents' liquor cabinet.
Lets give the US a base in northern Australa for their troops, on top of the Pine Gap surveillence facility for their "intelligence" agencies. Let us then replace the contract with France for submarines which are designed to operate in the shallow waters of Austalia's littoral with ones which are bigger and noisier and are not designed for that purpose but to team up with team US to patrol waters further afield. And that effort is to threaten our largest trading partner.
None of the above helps Australia's security. It weakens our naval defense and creates targets if the USA's provocations create a war in Taiwan, as their provocations created a war in Ukraine. Thankfully, I dont think the Chinese will fall for that. But, it is still a bloody stupid thing to do which only benefits the USA military industrial complex (and a little to the UK).
Oh, and to add to your list above:
and E) is Australia's dominant trading partner.
Great article, Caitlin. And nice graphic too.
PS: How long before before AUKUS becomes a synonym for stupid?
Don't be AUKUS, it already is.
It's a band of "inadequacy brothers" or some such, look at the "leaders" of those govs: US, UK, Australia, NZ, France, Canada.
Look at the mess created, something not "normal" is happening. It can not
be that this is not planned. It just can't. IMO of course. Thank you Caitlin
for such excellent work you do.
What Australia needs badly is 'No war or preparations for war without parliamentary approval.'
In Australia there is an organisation called Australians for War Powers Reform (AWPR) and it is worth supporting, run by an extremely qualified person such as Alison Broinowski.
Details on Alison and the AWPR are on the web in detaill.
It seems to an observer that the stumbling block to proceeding with such rational legislation is the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, a lady with Chinese ancestry who for some unknown reason (to the Australian people, that is) seems to be the loudest voice against such logical changes. One questions whether her ancestry is a contributing factor to this almost arrogant rejection of taking a progressive step in offering ALL elected members a vote, not just the elected few forming part of the Prime Mimnister's close cabal, the third outspoken member being the Minister for Defence, a US military sycophant if ever there was one. We even have an ex-US Admiral doing some of our Defence planning. What next!
I am totally disgusted with the fact that we are being led along by the nose by a totally warlike country, forced into debt from which we are never likely to recover leaving us as a country even more of a pathetic joke than we have been in out blind allegiance to US warmongering in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, carrying the bags of the US plunderers, still raking off the oil from Libya and Syria and since WWII, being responsible for the deaths of twenty million people.
I happen to like Americans, dealt with them all my working life and nothing can change that. But the management of that country is now well past its due date and if in the election of 2024 they do not see the errors of their ways, the controls by the military / industrial profiteers, the quite obvious Israeli controls over b0th houses and the frightening standards and values of their present politicians supported by the Neocon brigades, thick in the halls of Washington, then the world will crumble under wars and more wars.
I just so happen to think that a worthwhile relationship with country like China would be an easy task if this country met them halfway, showed them that we do respect what they have become from a virtual peasant country to a major power and go out of our way to consolidate a fine relationship. We need to get out from under the US criminal influence, as listed above and stand beside all the people of the world in pursuing peace.
It is a worthwhxie objective.? Ask the young people. Do they want a war decided on in this country by a small minority of politicians, who for reasons manufactured by another country for hegemonic and greedy reasons controlled by profit motives, or do they feel that they can accept a two way equal partnership with China and Russia.
I can accept such a peaceful partnership without hesitation and I bet there are millions like me in Australia.
Let the parliament members vote, NOW
I'm well aligned with your view. So it would be like the US Congress?
I'm ashamed to admit that I thought it "a given" that the government had to seek approval of the parliament to get the country involved in any such undertakings/preparations. Alison Boikowski looked familiar to me and after some googling I know why. Now, to be honest, I don't trust our present parliamentarian membership. Too few of a good people in
there (in my opinion) but maybe it could be a starting point (?)
Switzerland only joined the JN in 2002 because that was the will of its people. Put it to Australians (apathic by large, as they are) I think they would vote for the country to be neutral. Given our resources and geographical position with the smart and competent management we could be sustainable and self-reliant. Thank you for your reply.
100% on the money as always. The only part that shocked me was the scrutiny about the illicit non-disclosure of the golf excursion. What? Your government completely surrenders its sovereignty to another country run by batshit crazies that orders you to involve itself directly in its war-to-come against your largest trading partner, and anybody is worried about the possibility that, as a sweetener for the deal that at least puts your entire military on the front lines of said war, your defense minister got to play some golf in the US somewhere during his last boondoggle to DC. How is this remotely possible? How is it that every Aussie doesn’t see through this? How is it that in the USA, everybody doesn’t see through this and the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine? ARE VIRTUALLY ALL OF OUR FELLOW CITIZENS UNDER SOME KIND OF EVIL SPELL?
To quote Charlie Brown from another context, I can’t stand it. I just can’t stand it.
YES! It's all SO nuts--especially given the threat of nuclear war, and the environmental/resource crises bearing down on us.
I'll say this. The success of the propaganda narratives around this, and around greenwashing, show that if that power were ever used to unite people everywhere behind a plan to transition to a sustainable future--which would require giving up a lot of wealth and privilege for the richest half of humanity, especially those at the top but even the middle-class majority--pointing out the somewhat vague benefits of a restored sense of purpose, a decent future for our kids, better physical and emotional health, etc--surely we could get buy in for even a drastic, wrenching change (which is now necessary). I mean, if it's that easy to get people to consent to warmongering that may well lead to nuclear war and human extinction...over what, a threat to the sovereignty of Taiwan, really?
Hollywood films like don't look up are designed to place the psychological burdens onto the "little people" so they don't have to.
Hollywood (cia) also created all the drama depictions of Russian sleeper cells hiding under the westerners beds poised to steal their patriotic lint for generations, that has now manufactured all the Putin bogeyman syndrome they all suffer from.
They can't see any of this because their minds are warped sins childhood. Add in public education (indoctrination and obedience training) and you get a population of compliant docile tax check signing serfs. Who think "voting" gives them a say.
We were indeed stooges. I kinda knew it, but it really didn't sink in until much later...in fact, I think it sinks in a little more with each passing day. Thanks to Caitlin for providing some daily relief.
I think it was patriotic seman they were afraid the commies would steal. Sort of a hammer and sickle succubus. 😁😆😂🤣.
Geo-economic threats from The East that put an end to US dollar dominance and so goes the US economy and US power projection.
The threat is The Great Eurasian Union and its manifold forms that deal the Washington Consensus and The West more generally out of The Future.
No American Century this century. The Eurasian Century.
Dealt with in the detail Mary . . . https://les7eb.substack.com/
Well, if you're going to be annexed, at least allow yourself to be 6 to 10 additional states. Maybe divide yourself up to the size of Delaware. You could control the electoral college!
Why would the United States give its vassal rights when its vassal is already happy to shine master's boots whenever asked?
The fate of Australia would be more along the lines of Guam, Samoa, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands etc. Just imperial territories.
Will we become another Ukraine that fights American empire-expanding wars to protect their homeland while destroying ours?
This is what they did in WW2 -- let all the others be invaded and bombed while American homes and businesses were protected.
Except that none of this is about protecting the homeland. Nobody is actually threatening the US. It's US hegemony and the petrodollar that are threatened--and I've seen heartening stories about how the overuse of sanctions have come back to bite the DC cabal, as many nations are defecting, notably in the Middle East. Along with the huge n umber of illegal sanctions, there have been several cases of outright theft of other countries' resources stored in US (or UK) banks. THIS is what the anti-China hysteria is about, because China's economic strength is enabling these defections.
you are right. -- but i expect countries which are bombed, or attacked with swarms of drones, or torpedoed from submarines, are going to retaliate by attacking the places where these attacks are coming from. and that might be australia and not the USA homeland.
I agree, which means that the entire “liberal establishment” that is Western “democracy” will be attacked. I’m not happy about that, but I can see how my good middle class life is predicated on the suffering and loses of others. I’ve fought it all my life but I’ve never renounced it. So, I’ll be paying the bill too, even if my intentions were good and those other “bad” Americans had bad intentions.
Good on you Jean Wymen. The Americans who realise that their nice middle class lives are built on the corpses of the other are few and far between. Just as the 'third world' was emerging from centuries of European colonialism, it got blasted by the neocolonialism of the USA. The blowback inevitably is also felt by the US underclass who suffer from lack of health care, a free education, gun violence, racism and social inequalities which are too numerous to mention here.
Thank you Indu, for the kind words and world truths. I made a reply but Substack didn’t see fit to post it here. Suffice it to say that attempting some humility about my privilege and confronting it in my peers is my new attempt to right the wrongs of the past. But wow!!!! are middle class Americans thick! 😝. That finger is always pointing outward at someone else, while they are completely blind to the board in their own eye!
Exactly right.. The end game of world domination the USrAel deep state has been after for a generation has failed and as I predicted long ago as soon as the USA starts to go down every country they fμcked over is going to want to get their last kicks in.
This is all the desperation of a dying empire.
But like every abusive relationship where the abuser is being outed they become more abusive to ty and maintain control till it all comes to a head with either the victim's death or theirs. Its true in the domestic as well as the international community. And make no mistake the opulant psychopaths runing western society are exactly as I describe.
Sadly the useful idiot public who have become so victimized by propaganda that they believe our rullers when they say "why do you make me beat you"
This is why the fascist censorship and beat down of whistleblowers is so prevalent and allowed. The enablers of abuse in all main stream sectors help triangulate the psychological and physical abuse as they all benefit from it.
The entire western punitive "rules based" social and cultural indoctrination systems is dedicated to maintaining the abusive status quo. And they all profit off human suffering.
There is no rule of law, only collusion to the end game.
Brilliant summation. And it follows the best advise ever given in how to understand geopolitics—follow the money.
yeah, except that money begets power which begets money--they're intertwined. And the third leg of the unholy trinity of our enemy--the corporate-government-media complex, is just as important as the other two, as it protects them, by bullshitting the people into going along with a program designed to enrich the already rich, keep power in the hands of the powerful, AT ALL COSTS. These costs have always included the wellbeing of the poor countries and the poor within the rich countries; now future generations and ecosystems are also being sacrificed.
Yes this has occurred to me too.
The presence of US military personnel is Darwin and surrounds is currently significant and looks set to increase. Militaries around the the world condition troops to hate and dehumanise their alleged enemies, none more so than the US and Darwin is home to a large ethnic Chinese population.
If they no anything about Japan, Okinowa or the Marshall Islands, they might be getting a bit worried.
"Marles, who is currently facing scrutiny in Australia for being illicitly secretive about the nature of a free golf trip he went on in his last visit to the United States, has said that the DSR "will underpin our Defence policy for decades to come.”"
I'd be shocked if all that Marles got was a golfing trip. Shows that his masters consider him a cheap whore.
Axtually, I'd be even more concerned if that was in fact all Marles got. It's one thing to sell out, to take silver over lead. It's another thing entirely to sell yourself practically for free because you just love master and actually believe his crap.
The shadow state installed all the sycophants into every western allies bations to purposely turn that country into a vassle...people have no idea how deeply embeded all western countries are to the clandestine operations that are running them all.
All this confirms that the United States is an empire and that its so-called allies (Australians, Europeans, Asians) are merely the equivalent of the peregrine cities of ancient Rome.
I totally agree. The US is in the 1st throes of empire collapse. But I don’t see that as Australia’s fate. Australia seems more like Poland at the beginning of the 2nd world war and in that scenario, the US is the German empire. I think Australia has more to fear from the melting Antarctica than it does from their kow towing to us.
Everything depends on how the fall of the American empire will unfold. If the neo-cons are not ejected from power, things will only get worse, the fall will be violent and the Empire will not accept it, i.e. it will be ready to go to the apocalypse. The neo-cons are psychopaths, and the problem is that they stay in power regardless of political change: they just change their targets. With the Democrats it's Russia, with the Republicans it's China.
The other problem is that Western leaders are unable to think in terms other than submission to Washington. Here in France, we have Macron who says everything and its opposite but in the end, he remains wisely aligned behind Washington. And dishonors my country a little more every day.
Yes, I’ve thought about that— we can go down like the British Empire, slow but somewhat dignified, or like the Romans—laid waste by several invasions as our leaders get more and more corrupt. But after watching Byedone, I’m thinking it could be a new ‘MURKAN way of collapse— one led by the leaders. I’m thinking the Democrats don’t want to lead—they get everything they want from the Rethuglicans—notice how none of Trump’s initiatives have been reversed by our feckless Resident. Also, if they wanted to win, they wouldn’t have run old Joe. Noboby likes him or wants him but we will have to vote for him to keep the other psychopath’s out of office. It’s a neat little trick, thought up by the Clinton’s and financed by the corporations. I have a feeling that’s what happened in your country with Le Pen against Macron. So I think what we’ll get in our collapse is (more) corporate rule with little skirmishes (civil wars) in the country that effectively destroy cohesion among the populace and institute military “law”. Like we have now! 😬
In the end, this leads me to conclude that we do not live in a democracy but in a plutocracy. A false elite based on money holds all the levers that control access to power, elections are only simulacra. When we make a list of the leaders who govern in what we call the collective West, we realize that there is not one to redeem, that not one has the makings of a statesman. But this band of idiots is ready to go to the point of nuclear confrontation to save their power.
Anglo-colonial alliance aka Five eyes has gone completely bananas. The Financial Times yesterday treated us to a hysterical story about why this was a must-do, because of “Chinese aggression” which is their standard fake news.
“Chinese aggression” = outworking and out-innovating America = whipping America like a rented mule economically. China wants America to thrive so it can buy Chinese goods, simple as that. It’s just like the thinking behind the Marshall Plan.
Aussies better behave or the US will declare Juan Guido your president.
Countires around the world has finally beginning to dare see that the US is treating the world as either vassals or a national security threats. There's no other position. You're with us or against us. This is a nightmarish scene with only one outcome, world destruction. And neither party gets it. The party's over.
The 51 state of the US?… you mean the 52 State because the 51 state is Germany.
I might argue that might be our bitch to the north...Canada.
Israel is the controller of all their brain stems. Mossad and CIA are one and the same,,,Yet to point out that about the empires new cloths is conveniently conjured up as anti-Semitic.
Why do you think the constant bludgeoning with ww2 documentarys is all about..making sure you still feel adiquetly guilty and full of feelings of reparations so you overlook the truth of the matter.
I also think it’s because those movies are candy to American white males—they just can’t get enough of how butch we were in 1944.
States have rights and a nominal say in government. Vassals, puppets and lackeys do not.
"nominal" - good choice. I might have gone with "putative" - or "purported".
"...we're not even allowed to know if the US is bringing nuclear weapons into our country."
Seems the British establishment had the same idea not long ago when they treated the continent with absolute contempt. https://youtu.be/kpaiOgo9ThQ
You might mention that the flag you created matches with the flag of the British East India Company, the father of MI6 and the grandfather of the CIA
Thank you!
If the Australian people passively accept this narrative and enable their government to submit totally to the wishes of their overmasters in the US government, then Australians will have proved themselves even dumber and more cowardly than Americans, which would be quite a feat.
Right, if a democracy can’t stop fascism in its infancy, when will it be able to?
And, then, we click our heels, or whatever is the metaphor, for further yes, sir: “Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has agreed to attend the NATO summit in Lithuania in July after coming under criticism when it appeared he would skip the high-powered gathering.”
The metaphor that went through my mind when reading the article was the freshmen and sophomores trying to curry favor with the juniors and seniors by inviting them to party in their house (continent) while their parents were away.
We'll be over at ten, Aussies! Make sure you've got plenty of beer and the keys to your parents' liquor cabinet.