Petrified of being wedged by Dutton, @albomp.bsky.social committed Australia to Morrison’s hare-brained pact.
A PM with vertebrae would have axed it immediately on assuming office.
At least Australia might still get nuclear subs this way! (as one of the options the UK PM can put in their "Letter of Last Resort" to submarine commanders on what to do if the UK is destroyed is to put their vessel under Australian command)
We should do the same. If America wants an alliance with Russia then we should say we are out! Or will the Australian government just sit this one out for 4 years?
Of course the UK will. Remember the defence of Singapore. The USA will defend its forward military and comms bases in Australia until taken out by the first strike in any war, but then immediately pull back across the Pacific and leave Australia to it. Delusional to think any other.
It was Labor that created the alliance in the first place, after Churchill made it clear he'd rather have Australian troops fighting the Germans and Italians in the Middle East than Australian troops defending Australia.
The only way forward is for western democracies to isolate themselves as much as they can from the US, as difficult as that may be to face up to.
But of course our bipartisanshit major parties won’t have the guts to do this
That is the realisation that all of these countries being sanctioned by the US should have. Stop relying on the US, they cannot be trusted.
This is a golden opportunity to move away from mindless consumerism, but mindless consumerism suits politicians...
Albo and Marles will be discussing this, but you won't hear about it. They don't want to poke the bear. The fact it is being discussed in the UK, tells me we are talking about it. It will be a hold and wait and see how this plays out with the US and Russia.
except it is Morrison's baby. Really, ALP needs to dump AUKUS. They are scared because they will be called out as weak on Defence; but, whichever way you look at it AUKUS is a dud!
they had no choice, coalition would have creamed them....Murdoch would have splashed headlines before election on how weak Labor was on defence,...just pragmatic....you can't escape reality this was Morrison's baby...time to throw his baby out with the bath water!
I'm worried our next government, no matter who, is going to try to stay quiet and appease mad King Trump and president Elon, and we will end up in their thrall & thus friendless. I hope I'm catastrophising!
PM @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social
Why are we making deals with a psychopathic criminal? Dump AUKUS now, the UK is out. But your continuing Scott Morrison's slush fund? Why?
You want to hand the government to the Spud?
In the time of the greatest alliance shift since the Second World War due to a slow coup in the US this is labor’s fault?
The whole worlds strategic alignment has been destroyed by trump not the ALP.
That checks out: There was definitely absolutely no way anyone could have foreseen Trump gaining power or behaving in this way when he did; it just came out of nowhere 🤷
The US, federally (which is what we're dealing with for an arms deal, one suspects) mandates a three-day cooling off period on any deal. However, the agency charged with overseeing such rules - the FTC - is currently being gutted. So we may be stuck.
So Pete where are we at? Please stop it …my head hurts …you’re becoming the Angus Taylor of diplomacy and foreign affairs…you need to try to stop reading those Sky News and 2GB scripts..it’s starting to become too easy to see that you’re extraordinarily politically vapid
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Albanese would get a massive boost in polls if he finally stood up.
A PM with vertebrae would have axed it immediately on assuming office.
#AukusIsGone
The Duopoly super-glued itself to trump, showed our cards and left us isolated, untrustworthy abroad - esp in our region
But of course our bipartisanshit major parties won’t have the guts to do this
This is a golden opportunity to move away from mindless consumerism, but mindless consumerism suits politicians...
Our voices in this deserve to be heard
Why are we making deals with a psychopathic criminal? Dump AUKUS now, the UK is out. But your continuing Scott Morrison's slush fund? Why?
You want to hand the government to the Spud?
The whole worlds strategic alignment has been destroyed by trump not the ALP.
And our government responded by putting it's fingers in it's ears and yelling "la la la".
This is just the next step in a long line of disappointment.
But we paid anyway
Wonder what will be the Singapore wake call.