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There is no doubt that countries like the UK and the US and little Australia, joined together merrily as the AUKUSTRATED AUKUS club, must seem to be arrogant to the rest of the world.

An Anglo group, hitched together by ancestral beginnings and trying to show the world in no uncertain terms that it is the Christian / Whities who really run the world. A couple more similarly inclined countries like Canada and New Zealand and you have the whole Aryan ("noble, white, superior or high-born”) clubhouse…... complete.

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All this in 2023. Have we learned from history over the past 200 years?

Let's take little Australia, a white British owned colony, thanks to the British decision to make this country a penal settlement in 1788 to rid good old England of those commoners who may have stolen a loaf of bread to feed their family. But white, all the way. Good sense prevailed in the next 125 years and a need for similar (whitish) people, not all bread stealers, to add to the colony was made, but still mainly British. Then WWII, after which we saw people from many countries choose to live here, and Australia discovered prawns, fried rice, spaghetti, noodles, olive oil, moussaka, (as opposed to the very British standard fare) was on its way....but still very whitish, Then many more Europeans of various nationalities added to the mix, not all white. And the new Australia was born. Still British down to its bootstraps with about 7.5 million people in 1945, waving the almost British looking flag and bowing and scraping to a Queen and still today, a feeble old Prince now known as a King of England as well as whatever is left of the old British colonial empire.

A couple of wars managed now by the new emerging power, the USA, respected in those days, made us all feel comfortable for our future lives until we witnessed and willingly joined them in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, , Afghanistan with treaties like ANZUS, to the really big one, now AUKUS, and we were sold. Let's be like them. They are exceptional, in their own opinion..

On one hand a British colony still but now trying to become something different. We failed miserably, now a Yankee junior bag carrier and still a 'yes sir’/ 'no sir’ Pommy servant.

Anyone else want a slice of this naive pie down under?

Hence AUKUS. An agreement that has put paid to Australia ever being a country of note, of independent thoughts and decisions and as a result, able to be respected, as such. We are something of an international joke, except on the tennis court where we often shine brightly.

So when we read of other countries accepting multiple US bases in many forms, all designed to harass China as identified by Caitlin today, adding to the 800+ US bases already in place around the world, you know that the times are changing. But if you aren't Aryan and Christian and White, you’ll never ever have a role as a member of something like America’s little profitable plaything ‘AUKUS' ( like Australia unfortunately has ) and never become a friendly (on the surface) military bag carrier for Biden's bunch and whoever follows him in 2024, undoubtedly with the same qualities as the one before.

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