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Best of 2022: Our dangerous ally could drag us into war with China
We could get into a war with China is if we continue to act as a proxy or deputy sheriff for the US in the region. Despite the media hysteria, China is not a military threat to Australia or the US.
This is an edited version of an earlier post.
Malcolm Fraser was right about ‘our dangerous ally’.
The US is the most aggressive and violent country in the world. It is addicted to a belief in its exceptionalism, grounded in aggression and violence both at home and abroad and finding it hard to admit mistakes.
It sees more and more war as a means of enhancing its imperial power and authority.
Apart from brief isolationist periods, the US has been almost perpetually at war.
For over two centuries, the US has subverted and overthrown numerous governments. It has a military and business complex that depends on war for influence and enrichment. It funds our War Memorial and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and many other fronts for US military and business interests.
The US is a much more aggressive and violent country than China.
The US assumes a moral superiority it denies to others. It is blinded by its own self righteousness.
Many of our political, bureaucratic, business and media elites have been on American drip feeds like the Australian America Leadership Dialogue for so long that they find it hard to think of the world without American global hegemony. We had a similar and dependent view of the UK in the past. That ended in tears in Singapore.
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' War is in America's DNA ' Looking at the statistics it's a view that's nigh-on impossible to dismiss.
The possession of nuclear weapons by other states which do not conform to America's view of the world has prevented an American-led destruction of such states to date.
However, it is highly unlikely that the US mindset will be content with a status quo into the future. If we ever reach the point wherein western militaries believe that we have a secure missile shield to protect homelands then the efforts towards world domination will continue- with a nuclear tip.
The ONLY way to prevent such a scenario is world-wide nuclear disarmament. Fuck the moon and Mars. They're simply faulty escape valves. Elect politicians with peace on their minds- or kiss your asses goodbye.
Wishing ALL a peaceful and happy New Year- with the exception of nuclear-armed Neo-Zionist fascists.