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Australia should reconsider alliance with ‘fiercely unpredictable’ US, former foreign ministers say (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/australia@aussie.zone
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[–] 35 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The Australian Labor party plan is to stay silent and hope this all blows over. The Australian LNP plan is to loudly join in

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Alas, very much this.

    We should have started to move away under Bush, I remember wheb Bush was adrsssibg parliment and they banned Bob Briwn. An elexted Australian Senator, banned from neing in parliament ? That was the last straw for me

    The first red flag was the dodgy US shit around Whitlams sackng and US interference, let alone the endless shit fuckery th US has been up to since the 1950s.

    Fuck it, Vote Green

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    • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Narrator : But they didn't.

    (or maybe there was a significant shift to Greens)

    I just hope we finally say no when Trump tries to drag us into a war.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I don't think Trump is going to ask us to join a war. The idea of Australia will not even enter his mind unless it is directly relevant. For example he will probably think of Australia if he is intending to invade Australia; but aside from that, it would be up to his advisers to remind him that we exist.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    He's looking at Greenland supposedly because of their rare earth minerals.

    Australia has almost 4x the rare earth minerals of Greenland, and also has the mining infrastructure already in place.

    It's best we keep our heads down.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    the minerals are just the flimsy justification.

    the reality is that trump is trying to posture the united states for an anticipated climate change degraded world where a huge majority of commerce and shipping goes through the arctic instead of polynesia or the suez canal.

    denmark does not have the capacity to create and maintain a standing navy large enough to counter china's in the waters around greenland; so the US president in 50-ish years time will force the issue because trump already started it.

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    • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    There was a time labor did things like that; the CIA may or may not have had a role in them dropping their independent foreign policy stance.

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    As one of her constituents, I've emailed Penny Wong twice already to say the same thing. No response.

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