By arming itself with nuclear powered submarines, along with all the other paraphernalia of war, Australia is not so much arming to protect itself from China, as arming to protect itself from the United States.
With China its largest two-way trading partner, Australia’s is effectively pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into protecting its trade with China, from China.
Why? Because to do otherwise risks incurring the wrath of the United States
That is the tenor of this article by independent Australian author and journalist Caitlin Johnstone which, if you don’t read anything else today, is worth your time.
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Speaking of China, we must be about due for another of Creepy Key’s shameless slow anal lickin’ media episodes praising the CCP Chinese Criminal Party, suggesting all in NZ adopt the same subservience stance as he does.
A good portion of Kiwis will be so convinced though. Not all of us are on the same payroll.
Nothing to worry about. I mean, China has never attacked, threatened or invaded any other country. That is if you live in a cave and believe the CCP’S propagandist garbage.
Apart from trying to invade Vietnam in 1979, its invasion of Tibet in 1949 and failed attempt to invade Malaysia in 1948.
You forgot Korea in 53
And the current border clashes with India. It’s just fist fights, and sticks and stones at the moment, which is nice.
You left out India, they also caught with hands in cookie jar with Nepal & Bhutan Borders and backed off very quickly when both countries were threatened to invoke their security guarantees with the British Commonwealth.
It’s the idea that China will invade Australia much less America is preposterous in the extreme.
Every time a fishing vessel shows up on radar the usual people loss it. Send the 7th fleet 6 miles off of the Chinese coast y’all cheer.
Manchuria, Mongolia, East Turkestan (aka Xinjiang), depending how far back you want to go Sri Lanka…
lol pretty funny coming from a propagandist for ammurrica
No. It can come to pass that America and China come to blows. Got that you series one sapiens?
Swings and roundabouts. We all die at the end.
It has been decided by those with money for armaments that this is the age of disruption. Many of us will we ruptured as part of the disruption but hey there are more of us where we came from. Anyway every country has a war every 20-30 years or is part of one. It’s the life-death cycle bred into us so why the surprise. (A few ready-made empty arguments for those without enough machivellian genes.)
Good to get a link to Consortium News founded by the late, great US journalist Robert Parry.
Comments on Caitlin Johnson’s article are worth reading.
‘ To the US, Australia is nothing more than a staging ground for war with China.’
Yes the US always stages its wars on territories other than its own.
Years ago in the early sixties when touring Europe in a second hand Pontiac station wagon with then husband and an Oz couple, we landed on the other couple’s friend who was with the Australian Embassy in Bonn.
Next day he and his wife were hosting a farewell to the Australian ambassador. Present was the Japanese ambassador who had been a naval commander in the war. My ex, a cheeky journalist asked him whether the Japanese had intended to invade New Zealand. The ambassador a quiet, dignified man replied that they had considered NZ to be a mop up operation after Australia.
Now that Australia has stuck its head in the noose I wonder if we might be regarded in the same light by both sides in this coming conflict.
Yep, we protect Australia’s Eastern Flank & access to Kermadec Trench which will allow the Subs to go nice and deep to avoid being ambushed in the restricted passages of the Sth Pacific Archipelago as what happen to the Japanese I Boat & the 2 or 3 Kiwi Corvettes in Solly’s in WW2.
The general consensus during the NZ Japanese Scare in WW2 had the Japanese been successful with the Battle of Coral Sea & it’s invasion of PNG.
They Would’ve headed down the Solly’s towards the New Hebrides now Vanuatu, turn right for Fiji & Head Sth for NZ IOT isolate Australia from the US. At that stage, NZ had the bulk of its land forces fighting the Sandpit. The 3rd NZ Div had only just stood up & Land Forces NZ Which my Grandfather was part of. Was made up of Reinforcements taken of the boats in Wellington (Granddad), those in training or hadn’t been posted to 3 Div or the 1st NZ Tank Brigade, the TF & Home Guard.
The RNZAF was in a shocking state, with very few fighters or long range maritime patrol aircraft, trainers were converted to battlefield support aircraft and any of the bigger Biplanes into Torpedo Bombers etc.
The Navy was everywhere because NZ as a whole lack the eyes & ears as the German Raiders were very active in NZ waters laying Mines & Engaging Surface Ships while the Japanese I Boats made to Sorties around NZ which incl two overflights one of Auckland & Wellington looking for the USMC Invasion Force that was to retake the Solly’s and in fact it actually miss them by a few days.
If you want to attack Oz, you need to isolate it & thence why the Chinese have quite active in the Sth Pacific it’s One Belt One Road Strategy & it’s influence type diplomacy missions in NZ especially under the John Key Government.
From my experience from where I worked in the RAAF until 2018 the Chinese have Studied the shit of the Sth Pacific Campaign & even on my Sub 2 for Tactics for Airfield Defence in the RAAF we have gone back RAAF Scherger with bi annual staff rides to former Airfields in the Sth Pacific & in-particular the Battle of Milne Bay in PNG which started just before the Battle of the Coral Sea. The Allies were very luck to have actually found the Japanese Landing there & it was a bloody mad rush to send every man & his dog there before the Japs were to consolidate and establish Air Umbrella for the PNG Invasion Force.
NZ is going to get sucked into this impending shit fight weather it wants too or not & that’s a fact!
Unless it’s prepared to adopt Armed Neutrality? But that means a lot of people on the left especially those on the Greens/ Left of the Greens swallowing a number of dead rats just like the Right will have to do as well btw & NZ “might” avoid being sucked into the vortex of the impending shit fight.
@SCUD,
Thanks.
Thanks for your insight based on actual military experience Scud.
The article has some worth but is unbalanced when blaming the US for every provocation and not China which under President Xi is much more of a threat than under his predecessors. Australia is not under threat but Taiwan certainly is. Look at what happened in Hong Kong!
Prime example of a country so scared of the world’s only big boss man (to put that mildly), that they will pay a king’s ransom to keep the wrath of the big boss, at bay. Ironically, most of Europe is already in this position, meaning, unfortunately, that we will face the same conundrum soon also.
This is what happens when the world no longer has a mainstream media that challenges power.
What sort of depraved halfwit would join the U.S. on this murder suicide mission?
Aussies: Hold my beer.
USUKA indeed.
Article this morning on NEO (link below) tells of how the ‘new’ bi-partisan consensus in the US against China aims at ‘total war.’
@ SCUD: ‘Unless it’s prepared to adopt Armed Neutrality? But that means a lot of people on the left especially those on the Greens/ Left of the Greens swallowing a number of dead rats just like the Right will have to do as well btw & NZ “might” avoid being sucked into the vortex of the impending shit fight.’
Unfortunately the actual Left, Greens and most of the Right would rather choke to death on the dead rats and be blown to smithereens rather than swallow and digest the rats, excrete them and stand up
as cleansed and aware males and females. The latest edition of the Oxford dictionary does not contain the words husband or wife.
Every government department and agency as well as all medium to major business now has a ‘cultural committee.’ Every tiny complaint against the perceived speech or behaviour of any workmate goes before the committee which reports the perceived offense to a departmental head. I have a friend who’s son has just today confided in her that he is being driven mad by this but has to hold on to his job. Does anyone remember Winston Smith, the endless wars and the way he was finally dealt with ?
People who know beyond all doubt that snow is black will never be able to push for anything half way real let alone Armed Neutrality. We are going to be chewed up and spat out by the neo-marxist war machine. Suck it up
https://journal-neo.org/2023/03/17/new-bipartisan-consensus
My main hope is that while the focus is on Australia everyone will forget about NZ and not ask us to take sides
Is China about to step on to world stage as the new self appointed global policeman?
Ukraine wants a peace deal in which all Russian troops leave all Ukraine territory forcibly occupied and annexed by Russia. (with the possible exception of Crimea)
Russia wants a peace deal in which it can hold all the territory of Ukraine it has occupied and annexed.
Xi is currently in Moscow hammering out the shape of a peace proposal, most likely along lines favourable to the Russian Federation position on a peace deal.
Xi and Putin’s next diplomatic move, will be to put their final peace deal, currently still being discussed between them in Moscow, before the United Nations General Assembly, and Security Council. No matter which way the General Assembly goes, only the Security Council has the power to approve the Chinese/Russian Peace Deal.
The Security Council has 5 permanent members, the US, the UK, France, China, Russia. Each permanent member of the Security Council has the power to veto the Chinese brokered peace plan.
When the Chinese brokered peace plan is rejected by the Security Council, as it will be, China has two choices; Accept the decision – or decide to ignore it and take real world action to unilaterally enforce it.
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