No way America would give up Pine Gap.
I think America is more likely to invade us than China is anyway.
America invade Australia?
I thought they’d already done that…
… to just about every country.I meant invade like if they invaded California and overthrew Gavin Newsom (this is not an endorsement of Newsom).
In our case, they’d enter parliament, arrest Albanese, and put Ralph Babet in charge. Probably after the Murdoch runs a whatsitcalled campaign to give plausible deniability to the Americans for doing this. Then again, the CIA has couped our leaders before (although I don’t imagine the Americans will be satisfied with Sussan Ley or another ALP member in charge so they’d probably need to do a full military intervention).
Don’t forget if you elect a government official that the U.S. doesn’t like, as Brazil did, you will get different treatment as well.
Some say this already happened with Whitlam, given the CIA’s comments about Kerr being “their man”.
We’ll probably never know for sure, but I would bet there would be regime change done here if we ever decide to stop allowing our resources to be plundered by US (and other) companies
The point this article is fair, but as long as Australia is in five eyes I think they’re solid.
roll of the dice
They produce dice with only 1s and 2s on them?
Most GMs just use a coin, but D2 dice do exist.
That’s 50/50 – totally too optimistic. You need 5 "1"s and 1 “2”. Maybe even a few zeroes.
Oh agreed,
We could roll a d20 with only 20 being the passing mark, everything else fails; which gives a 5% success chance… and that still seems optimistic when describing a relationship with America.
Basically, Aus, Canada, UK and every other American “allied” nation should have a magic 8 ball that only returns with “yeah you’re fucked” when asked anything about the relationship with America, it’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when.
There is nothing about us that is trustworthy. Trusting America is as wise as trusting Russia.
Imo it is worse because you trust Russia to be your enemy. US acts like a friend and then fucks you
Australia is an ally. Ukraine was never an ally. They never will be. They don’t want to be. Also, Ukraine does not want to end the war. It’s actually the best thing that ever happened to them. It made them relevant for once.
This is the most poorly reasoned comment I’ve read in a while. Well done.
Yeah who wouldn’t want to be killed indiscriminately and children abducted? They got the spotlight!
That person should ask Canada how being arguably our closest ally has been working out for them.
