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By Tim Dixon
Is anybody else frustrated? I am. Allow me to vent mine, in a rambling sort of way:
Yeah, OK… we are here… somehow, a US president of a right-wing variety has convinced his right-wing base that a communist Russian dictator is the way to go. Every president since the beginning of the Cold War who is no longer with us must be turning in their graves. And those who are with us; Bush, Clinton, Obama and a Biden – are they complicit due to incredibly weakness in allowing the Russian bear to roar. And roar. And keep roaring?
Back home, changing the subject for a while, Paul Keating pokes his head up every now and then, and says that Albanese is a dunce for staying in bed with the US, ie. AUKUS (a Morrison balls up) … is he somehow the only “man of steel” left on the geopolitical stage? The original “man of steel” – little Johnny Howard – HATED the communist state of Russia and Putin in particular… not a whisper, not a word from him.
I need to say this, as I feel it hasn’t been articulated enough… how can a complete moron (yep, I’m talking about Trump) front up to a press conference and be swooned upon from the attending press as a “leader” of men going into this next geopolitical landscape – that he has HIMSELF created – how is the US allowing this, how can people who must have shown some kind of political acumen to be even ELECTED allow this rubbish to continue?
Trump has no redeeming features, his MAGA cult have no redeeming features, unless hate, racism, sexism is your ilk. But here we are, and even in Australia we have an insipid Labor government, who can’t even go to the toilet without looking at the polls, supporting (evidenced by their lack of condemnation) the IDF ‘genocide’ in Gaza… AUKUS is somehow a wonderful way forward. A US government that is threatening almost all of its historical allies (beieve me, they’ll get to us eventually), and destroying hundreds of years of democratic parliamentary and constitutional and judicial practice.
It makes me laugh to read supposedly decent news sites, who every now and then MAY post something like “are we approaching a constitutional crisis” … for god sake … that ship sailed a month ago… so they then get all entangled about oh dear, “Trump has done this”, or “Trump threatens to do this”. What a load of bollocks. He’s already done it, and the US as we used to know it has gone. Not thinking of being gone, or “waiting” to see what Trump will do next. Forget it. It’s gone.
And the sad thing is that every media, every democrat in the house, still thinks it can be saved by using the same means that Trump has already burnt to the ground. The courts have been compromised, the Congress is owned by Trump and the GOP no longer exists.
If you are worried about what could happen going forward… it’s already too late… it’s already happening, and we’ve done nothing to stop it.
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Absolutely! Scares the shit out of me where the world might be heading? In Oz, we need to desperately stop the right wing BS. For example, the US right wing Atlas Network is active, with its affiliates, like the IDU, Advance, IPA, CIS, etc. Voters urgently need to see through their fake wars etc, and fake outrage.
I used to think that morality and virtue are, at least somewhat, relative. No more. The emergence of genuine Evil here and abroad has lifted the scales.
We are in a conflict for the soul of humanity (words my atheist self never thought would come from me) and the Blitzkrieg tactics of the cults aligned against the good and decent are working. May you live in interesting times...
David Byrne said it well in Miss America.
I love America, her secrets safe with me
And I know her wicked ways, the parts you never see.
Oh supergirl, you'll be my supermodel
Although you have a reputation
Can I afford to move above my stationI'm not the only heart you.ve conquered.
And I love America, but boy can she be cruel
And I know how high she is without her platform shoes
Oh, supergirl, you'll be my supermodel
Although at times it might seem awkward
Don't run away, oh, don't you recognise me?
I'm not the only heart you've conquered.
And I kissed America when she was fleecing me
She knows I understand that she needs to be free
And I miss Americaand sometimes she does too
And sometimes I think of her when she's fucking you.
I love America Yo siempre he confiado en ti
I love America
?Por que me tratas asi?
Oh, supergirl, you'll be my supermodel
Although your pants are round your ankles
And when you're down, I'll be your Dirty Harry
It will just like in the movies
Oh supergirl, you'll be my supermodel
Although at times it might seem awkward
Don't look away, I'll be your teenage fan club
I'm not the only heart you've conquered.
"A communist Russian dictator"??? Tsar Putin may be a devious, murderous tyrant but Russian Communism died in 1991...
we should be very very afraid of giving Dutton ANY hint that he has support, he will use Trump's playbook to destroy us and we'll go down harder than the US. Stop him NOW while we still can.
we can't do anything for the US, except let those who would like to come here become citizens immediately
I agree with nearly all of the authors conclusions except for one. Russia did not start the war with Ukraine. Even the Pope has 4 times blamed the US and the west.
You might like to read the following that confirms that it was Zelenski a US puppet that started it. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/10/ukraine-zelensky-minsk-peace-russia/
Understand that the US is going is going to provoke a war with China, and the US knows Russia will back China and the Ukraine provoked war is to weaken Russia militarily.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/russia-ukraine-war-kiev-conflict
There should be many paranoid Anglosphere (ultra)conservatives in or retired from politics, media, security services etc.
One glaring example was the UK 'Conservatives for Russia' due to the attraction of Putin's white Christian nationalist policies including church, state, military, oligarchy, autocracy and anti-centrist positions on women, minorities, non right wing parties, media etc.
Two examples have been both Howard and Abbott offshore, the latter via Danube Institute in Hungary of PM 'mini Putin' Orbán and thr former too with ARC Alliance for Responsible Leadership.
ARC, like the 'intellectual dark web' or 'manosphere' has Jordan Peterson on its advisory board with Howard and Abbott, but he has been cited in Canada with former Fox presenter Tucker Carlson, as a Russian asset.
The Danube Inst. is a fulcrum representing US fossil fuel and white Christian nationalist influence versus the west.
Supported by a foundation (allegations of Russian funds), related to the Hungarian MCC (promotes opposition to the EU), partnered with the Atlas-Koch Heritage Foundation which is anti-Ukraine, has Opus Dei influence and with anti-immigrant Tanton Network, joint Project2025.
According to SPLC Tanton got to Abbott's boss O'Sullivan in the naughties via mutual chum Brit born Peter Brimelow, who popped to the surprise of Fox News normies, reporting directly to Murdoch; Tanton's mob is behind MAGA and their Stephen Miller, Dep CoS of Trump, is also a protagonist for Putin's Russia.
SPLC 30 Nov 2008 'Courting Conservatives. Peter Brimelow was a respectable, albeit hard-line, conservative commentator. Then he met nativist John Tanton'
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/courting-conservatives/
Max Gross and Thomas Brookes, thanks for those corrections.
"Anthony Albanese says he is confident that the US would defend Australia if it were to come under attack..." The Donald might but there would be a big bill for their services, "Cash please, or how about a hefty chunk, à la Ukraine, of your oil and mineral wealth. Better yet become another state of the great US."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/24/albanese-confident-us-would-come-to-australias-defence-in-event-of-attack
In the interests of peace in Ukraine and a settlement with Putin, President Trump said on Monday (24 February 2025) that Russian President Vladimir Putin will accept European peacekeeping troops in Ukraine as part of a potential peace deal to end the three-year-old war.
“Yeah, he will accept that. I’ve asked him that question,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office while hosting French President Emmanuel Macron.
“Look, if we do this deal, he’s not looking for more war. He doesn’t mind,” Trump added.
“But I’ve specifically asked him that question. He has no problem with it.”
If Trump doesn't later deny what he has said and if Putin agrees that this is his position, then we have an opportunity for peace in Ukraine with a European peacekeeping force on the ground and the probability of Ukraine joining the European Community [but not NATO].
Sounds positive to me !