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Only Idiots Believe The US Is Protecting Australia From China

The Economist has taken a keen interest in Australia lately, which if
you know anything about The Economist is something you never want to see
happen to your country. Two articles published in the last few days by
the notorious propaganda outlet have celebrated the fact that Australia
appears to be the most likely nation to follow the United States into a
hot war with China as it enmeshes itself further and further with the US
war machine.

In “How Joe Biden is transforming America’s Asian alliances,” The
Economist writes the following:

“Meanwhile, the ‘unbreakable’ defence relationship with Australia is
deepening, following the AUKUS agreement struck in March, amid a flurry
of equipment deals and military exercises. Should war break out with
China, the Aussies seem the most willing to fight at America’s side.
Australian land, sea and air bases are expanding to receive more
American forces. Under the AUKUS deal, Australia is gaining its own
long-range weapons, such as nuclear-powered (but not nuclear-armed)
submarines to be developed jointly with America and Britain. The three
partners want to work on other military technologies, from hypersonic
missiles to underwater drones.

“Taken together the ‘latticework’ of security agreements, shows how
America’s long-heralded pivot to Asia is accelerating.”

In “Australia is becoming America’s military launch-pad into Asia,” The
Economist elaborates upon this war partnership with tumescent
enthusiasm, calling it a “mateship” and likening it to a “marriage”, and
calling for a rollback of US restrictions on sharing military technology
with Australia.

“If America ever goes to war with China, American officials say the
Aussies would be the likeliest allies to be fighting with them,” The
Economist gushes, adding, “Australia’s geographical advantage is that it
lies in what strategists call a Goldilocks zone: well-placed to help
America to project power into Asia, but beyond the range of most of
China’s weapons. It is also large, which helps America scatter its
forces to avoid giving China easy targets.”

The Economist cites White House “Asia Tsar” Kurt Campbell reportedly
saying of Australia, “We have them locked in now for the next 40 years.”

“Equally, though, Australia may have America locked in for the same
duration,” The Economist hastens to add.

Well gosh, that’s a relief.

“How the world sees us,” tweeted former Australian foreign minister Bob
Carr when sharing the Economist article.

“Historians will be absolutely baffled by what’s happening in Australia
right now: normally countries never voluntarily relinquish their
sovereignty and worsen their own security position out of their own
accord. They normally have to lose a war and be forced to do so,”
commentator Arnaud Bertrand added to Carr’s quip.

As much as it pains me to admit it, The Economist is absolutely correct.
The Australian government has been showing every indication that it is
fully willing to charge into a hot war with its top trading partner to
please its masters in Washington, both before and after the US puppet
regime in Canberra changed hands last year.

This sycophantic war-readiness was humorously mocked on Chinese state
media back in 2021 by Impact Asia Capital co-founder Charles Liu, who
said he didn’t think the US will actually fight a war with China over
Taiwan, but the Australians might be stupid enough to fight it for them.

“US is not going to fight over Taiwan,” Liu said. “It’s not going to
conduct a war over Taiwan. They may try to get Japanese to do it, but
Japanese won’t be so stupid to do it. The only stupid ones who might get
involved are the Australians, sorry.”

He had nothing to be sorry about; he was right. Australians are being
very, very stupid, and not just our government. A recent Lowy Institute
poll found that eight in ten Australians believe the nation’s alliance
with the United States is important for Australia’s security, despite
three-quarters also saying they believe the alliance makes Australia
more likely to be drawn into a war in Asia.

That’s just plain stupid. A war with China is the absolute worst case
security scenario for Australia; anything that makes war with China more
likely is making us less secure. Making bad decisions which hurt your
own interests is what stupid people do.

That’s not to say Australians are naturally dimwitted; we’re actually
pretty clever as far as populations go. What’s making us stupid in this
case is the fact that our nation has the most concentrated media
ownership in the western world, a massive chunk of which is owned by
longtime US empire asset Rupert Murdoch. This propaganda-conducive
information environment has been distorting Australia’s understanding of
the world so pervasively in recent years that on more than one occasion
I’ve had total strangers start babbling at me about the dangers of China
completely out of nowhere within minutes of striking up conversation
with them.

This artificially manipulated information ecosystem has made Australians
so pants-on-head idiotic that they think the US empire is filling their
country up with war machinery because it loves them and wants to protect
them from the Chinese. That’s as stupid as it gets.

The single biggest lie being circulated in Australia right now is that
our government is militarising against China as a defensive measure.
China has literally zero history of invading and occupying countries on
the other side of the planet. You know who does have a very extensive
history of doing that? The United States. The military superpower that
Australia’s military is becoming increasingly intertwined with. The
belief that we’re intertwining ourselves with the world’s most
aggressive, destructive and war-horny military force as a defensive
measure to protect ourselves against that military force’s top rival
(who hasn’t dropped a bomb in decades) is transparently false, and only
a complete idiot would believe it.

We’re not militarising to defend ourselves against a future attack by
China, we’re militarising in preparation for a future US-led attack on
the Chinese military. We’re militarising in preparation to involve
ourselves in an unresolved civil war between Chinese people that has
nothing to do with us. China has been sorting out its own affairs for
millennia and has managed to do so just fine without the help of white
people running in firing military explosives at them, and Taiwan is no
exception.

The imperial media talk nonstop about how the People’s Republic of China
is preparing to seize control of Taiwan using military force, without
ever mentioning the fact that that’s exactly what the US empire is
doing. The US empire is preparing to wrest Taiwan away from China to
facilitate its long-term agenda to balkanize, weaken and subjugate its
top rival.

Only a complete blithering imbecile would believe any part of this is
being done defensively. It’s being done to secure unipolar planetary
domination for the world’s most powerful and destructive government, and
only an absolute moron would agree to risk their own country’s security
and economic interests to help facilitate it.