Tag: Defense

Australia

AUKUS cements U.S. interests and endangers Australia’s security

The deal does nobody any good. It heightens tensions in an already dangerous part of the world.It weakens the Australian economy and places our people at great risk. It consigns millions of Australians to continued waiting lists for basic services because there will be no fat in any budget any time soon.

All this to stave off an enemy that is still to be proven to be anything but a mirage and to prove fealty to the United States.

Source: AUKUS cements U.S. interests and endangers Australia’s security

Australian Government

Need for alternate foreign policy as U.S-Australia alliance questioned

 

WHILST successive Australian governments have claimed unwavering public support for the alliance with the United States, the undercurrents of concern about it are strong enough to have sparked two public inquiries into attitudes to the alliance in the last year.

Source: Need for alternate foreign policy as U.S-Australia alliance questioned

Trump

Trump’s Next Line of Defense – The Atlantic
Donald Trump
The most politically crucified God on the planet

This is nonsense. Cy Vance looking into Trump’s finances poses no more threat to the average Trump voter than Trump getting ticketed for speeding outside Mar-a-Lago—though you can bet he’d insist that was political persecution too. But careful reasoning has never been essential to Trump’s political identity. Displaced grievance has been, and it will remain so for the rest of his life.

Trump’s Next Line of Defense – The Atlantic
Informed Comment

Like bees to a honey pot, foreign defence manufacturers flock to Australia – » The Australian Independent Media Network

When the government announced that it would spend $400 billion over the next twenty years on defence materiel and that it would, in opposition to its supposed commitment to free trade, adopt a protectionist requirement for local content, foreign defence manufacturers flocked like bees to a honey pot.

via Like bees to a honey pot, foreign defence manufacturers flock to Australia – » The Australian Independent Media Network