By Alasdair Black
How can we, Australia, remain allied to the US if they threaten annexation of an ally’s territory?
This throws into question our AUKUS pact with the UK and US, and sets America on the path to being an unreliable – if not dangerous and possibly even hostile – ally.
This is getting all too bizarre.
What of our official status as an “Enhanced Opportunities Partner of NATO”? While we are not a member of NATO, because it is a geographically confined alliance, we have always worked in partnership with them because of our historical connection to the UK and having been involved in European conflicts in both WWI and WWII, and the conflict following the collapse of the former Yugoslavia.
Are we just going to shrug off the violation of a NATO partner’s territory, abandon the support of self-determination, sovereignty, and support of an international rules-based order?
Will the potential collapse of NATO be without repercussions to AUKUS or our relationship with an aggressively military expansionist America?
Do we even want to maintain a relationship with such a dangerous, unreliable partner and ally?
We are in an epoch- or era-changing moment.
Trump is a declining, demented geriatric, raging against the dying of his light, with megalomaniacal and sociopathic tendencies.
This current crisis is possibly the biggest global crisis since Hitler marched into Poland in 1939.
Are we going to choose the moral high ground, or are we going to be on the wrong side of history?
Are we going to, by default, end up being on the side of a Hitlerian maniac, who could quite possibly be setting the foundations of WWIII?
Trump right now is being more of a threat to Europe than Putin, if that’s even possible.
The Trump shit show has just jumped the shark.
America needs to muzzle and chain up its distempered dog.
America, is it time to metaphorically take “Old Yeller” out behind the barn and put him out of his misery.
Are there any adults left in the room in the American Congress, in the American establishment, in the American military-intelligence apparatus?
Where we stand at the moment, in my opinion, is at one minute to midnight on the Doomsday clock.
America, along with their demented President, has dangerously lost the plot.
Trump is turning into a global threat!
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While don’t disagree with the writers statements can I make two comments.
Can we stop calling the USA, America. America refers to the continents of North and South America (often called “The Americas”) and contrary to the wishes of the US president and his stormtroopers, most of the countries that make up The America’s and the American continent do not answer to the government of the USA or its president.
I think that in regard to whether the USA is an ally or not, that ship has sailed.
If we were indeed an ally the fact that Australia has a significant trade deficit with the US should have meant that no tariffs should have been imposed on Australian goods imported into the US, as that was the premise on which trump imposed increased tariffs on most, if not all, other countries. An ally would not have imposed a 50% tariff on Australian steel and its derivatives and a 25% tariff aluminium and its derivatives nor a 10% tariff on almost all other goods.
As for the writers other observations, they are pretty spot on. Managing the relationship between Australia and the USA going into the future will need a level head and an awareness that no matter what agreements are made, if the US president chooses to unmake them they will be unmade with no concern for, or compensation to, the Australian people.
We need a government that is not a sycophant to the US that continues to flex its muscles and make a mockery of the rules based order that it had a huge input into bringing into being, but one that can diplomatically step between the land mines that are laid down by an increasingly out of control US government while maintaining out sovereignty, what is left of it.
“…Trump is a declining, demented geriatric, raging against the dying of his light, with megalomaniacal and sociopathic tendencies….”
It is not only Trump. Granted, Trump sets an appalling example not only to US citizens but in particular his behaviour normalises the hyper egotistic behaviour of his executives and their agencies. The result is an ungainly war machine lurching out of control towards the first line of trenches.
In answer to the question; we (Australia) will do nothing, after all didn’t America save us from the Japanese?
the man is a greedy genius!!(10 to the .3010).
Venezuela oil
Greenland:
36.1 billion tonnes of rare earths.
235,000 tonnes of lithium
6 million tonnes of graphite
Significant uranium reserves
ps
the abc crawler announces ‘3.4% increase in inflation down from 3.8% almost as stupid as my writing.
Australia, I suspect, will continue the years long Chester and Butch routine.
Like all bullies, tRumpreich can only attack the weak. The muSScovite empire has huge reserves of fossil fuels and minerals of all description, why not swoop in and kidnap the midget dicktator (much worse than Mad euro) poo tin?