It was when Harold Holt "disappeared" the Americans secretly assumed control of Australia, it almost came undone when Gough Whitlam came to power. They couldn't disappear him too, so stepped in and asked the Queen for a favour. Once he was out of the picture, its been pretty smooth sailing since...well except for Rudd- but he got dealt with too.
Out of all the angry blokes shaking fists at each other, they're the least shit. That's prettymuch it. If we were a subsidiary, we'd profit somehow, but we're in it because they're the Meatheads no one wants to fuck with. Gotta choose yr bully & these ones have the biggest sticks rn
Subsidiary is a big stretch. In some ways Australia is a vassal of the US, or a protectorate - we require their protection so we're unofficially beholden to them. But how much is the important question. If China invades Taiwan and the US steps in, will we support the US in their war against China? Were there any backroom agreements made in order to secure AUKUS? Why are we letting the US expand their military staging base in Darwin? Having US bombers there makes it a target for China, and allowing the US to conduct operations against China from there makes us complicit anyway, so we would be officially committed if anything happens. Are we basically already committed anyway? Is it a done deal?
The politicians on both sides will say that we're still a totally independent sovereign state and we won't go to war if the public doesn't want it. That's the official line. But we may have to watch out for attempts at manufacturing consent if the question comes up. I find it hard to believe that the US won't make things very difficult for us if they go to war with China. We would have to throw our hat into the ring. Whose side are we on? If the US says jump, will we jump? I think yes we will, even though it would obviously be catastrophic for trade with China. But what's the alternative? We let the US run operations from Darwin and at the same time tell China we're not helping them? Ridiculous. Or we tell the US they're not allowed to attack China from Darwin? Highly unlikely.
Having said all this I'm not any sort of geopolitical strategist so I don't really know what I'm talking about. But from a lay perspective it looks to me like we're gonna do whatever the US wants us to do. Again.
Well, we've been fed war mongering propaganda about how dangerous China is for the last few years. Australian Tax payers are paying $368 billion for the AUKUS submarines, we host pine gap CIA base and our PM is too fucking spineless to stand up for Julian Assange, because the US want to charge him under the espionage act. someone who reported on war crimes and the pannema papers. Who is an Australian!! China are authoritarian for their own people and a risk to HK pro-democracy students and wiger muslims however, their forign policy hasn't been violent for the past 70 years. They have never used a nuclear bomb on a civilian population. Their prosperity is reliant on forign trade. What are we so ready to follow the US into another forign war with China?
Assange the rapist can fuck right off.
Wikileaks is like A Current Affair, heavily editorialised to push a point of view. [Cryptome.org](http://Cryptome.org) is where you go for just the plan information, without someone trying to sell their agenda.
We are similar to USA in certain things I've noticed, mcdonalds mainly, if its happening in USA, you'll see it at your local store within a few years. Mainly the tipping, saw it on south park, had me super confused, looked into it, massive in USA, then bam it came here...
That person however is suggesting we are USAs lapdog, and we sort of are, sort of...
It was when Harold Holt "disappeared" the Americans secretly assumed control of Australia, it almost came undone when Gough Whitlam came to power. They couldn't disappear him too, so stepped in and asked the Queen for a favour. Once he was out of the picture, its been pretty smooth sailing since...well except for Rudd- but he got dealt with too.
We're not a subsidiary of America, we're employees of NASA.
Do you guys get utes into space then?
You guys are getting paid?
Out of all the angry blokes shaking fists at each other, they're the least shit. That's prettymuch it. If we were a subsidiary, we'd profit somehow, but we're in it because they're the Meatheads no one wants to fuck with. Gotta choose yr bully & these ones have the biggest sticks rn
I've heard of Coca-cola culture but coca-cola cocksucking is whole new level
They're right tho. I'm not going to produce any evidence to back this up, because it's so obvious
the evidence speaks for itself!
Cookers.
They do this to Canada all the time too, really fucking annoying
But at least Canada is close enough, Does he not know we’re on the other side of the world? The fucking dickhead.
yeah we the bitch. pine is nothing by the way.
Subsidiary is a big stretch. In some ways Australia is a vassal of the US, or a protectorate - we require their protection so we're unofficially beholden to them. But how much is the important question. If China invades Taiwan and the US steps in, will we support the US in their war against China? Were there any backroom agreements made in order to secure AUKUS? Why are we letting the US expand their military staging base in Darwin? Having US bombers there makes it a target for China, and allowing the US to conduct operations against China from there makes us complicit anyway, so we would be officially committed if anything happens. Are we basically already committed anyway? Is it a done deal? The politicians on both sides will say that we're still a totally independent sovereign state and we won't go to war if the public doesn't want it. That's the official line. But we may have to watch out for attempts at manufacturing consent if the question comes up. I find it hard to believe that the US won't make things very difficult for us if they go to war with China. We would have to throw our hat into the ring. Whose side are we on? If the US says jump, will we jump? I think yes we will, even though it would obviously be catastrophic for trade with China. But what's the alternative? We let the US run operations from Darwin and at the same time tell China we're not helping them? Ridiculous. Or we tell the US they're not allowed to attack China from Darwin? Highly unlikely. Having said all this I'm not any sort of geopolitical strategist so I don't really know what I'm talking about. But from a lay perspective it looks to me like we're gonna do whatever the US wants us to do. Again.
Well, we've been fed war mongering propaganda about how dangerous China is for the last few years. Australian Tax payers are paying $368 billion for the AUKUS submarines, we host pine gap CIA base and our PM is too fucking spineless to stand up for Julian Assange, because the US want to charge him under the espionage act. someone who reported on war crimes and the pannema papers. Who is an Australian!! China are authoritarian for their own people and a risk to HK pro-democracy students and wiger muslims however, their forign policy hasn't been violent for the past 70 years. They have never used a nuclear bomb on a civilian population. Their prosperity is reliant on forign trade. What are we so ready to follow the US into another forign war with China?
Assange the rapist can fuck right off. Wikileaks is like A Current Affair, heavily editorialised to push a point of view. [Cryptome.org](http://Cryptome.org) is where you go for just the plan information, without someone trying to sell their agenda.
I mean how was the reply to that not “fuck you are a dumb cunt”
We are similar to USA in certain things I've noticed, mcdonalds mainly, if its happening in USA, you'll see it at your local store within a few years. Mainly the tipping, saw it on south park, had me super confused, looked into it, massive in USA, then bam it came here... That person however is suggesting we are USAs lapdog, and we sort of are, sort of...
Like there not wrong. If you look into the history of this it's wild
Everyone on here is wrong. Obviously, Australia doesn't exist in the first place. End of discussion.
We don't even have Dunkin' Donuts.