I would say a lot have concerns, but will only express them privately. The ALP have always been critiqued for being weak on defence and don’t want the LNP to use it as an attack line.
But the base Labor members will not be happy. I bet there’ll be some grass roots opposition, but it’ll probably...
These subs aren’t to defend the Australian continent from an external invasion.
They are to threaten and choke off Chinese shipping and trade if the US decides to neuter China.
Ahhh, the Next adventure we get told that we need to "defend freedom" and then several years later when it turns out to be a disaster "well we could never have seen this coming...."
Harpoons are anti-ship missiles - they are used to attack an invading fleet and protect the country.
Tomahawks however can attack land based targets, so we can now join the Americans in launching cruise missiles against the Chinese mainland, which will now make us open to retaliation against...
That's Keating's point.
Yeah, it's one thing to get submarines and military equipment to defend this nation, but all this AUKUS deal does is tie us into the US war machine. Now we are getting Tomahawk missiles too. Great, we can expend some munitions on whatever Chinese target the Pentagon...
And the ALP had better realise - the reason why they have a slight majority government rather than a minority government is because of the 4-5 seats they got, and some more that came very close (Deakin), because of Chinese Australian voters swinging to Labor.
Whilst they didn't appreciate the...
Be a bit more honest. A lot are there for supporting jihadist movements, not all Uyghurs want an independent state (the East Turkestan movement is a tiny minority group), and it just so happens that it's happening in a key region of the nation that if it became independent would cut off the...
Just like a lot of myths about military history, it was a myth that anti war protesters spat on returning soldiers from Vietnam:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spitting_Image
Inaccurate recollections of war only serve to increase the likelihood of future ones.
No they didn't.
It's a dishonour to pretend to everyone in war "Sacrificed their lives for us". It actually leads to more warmongering as it stops criticism of war using the "you don't support our troops" line.
Every Australian should remember how each government tricked respective generations...
Malcolm Turnbull has joined Keating in criticising AUKUS today:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/malcolm-turnbull-questions-whether-sick-british-economy-can-sustain-aukus-20230316-p5cslm.html
Different point of view to Keating but correctly pointing out that the UK, one third of this...
Unfortunately all the discussion today is about Keating vs Albo, "internal ALP strife".
It's about Keating vs "journalists" - "unfair criticism"
It's about Keating being on a bank's board 5 years ago "still a CCP suckhole"
But it's not about the very pertinent and pressing points Keating made...
Unless the corporate control of the media and influence of lobbyists have denigrated political culture to the point where both major parties are solely influenced by the military industrial warmonger lobby. The last time Australia had a genuine chance for a peaceful government was early 2000s...
Interestingly enough former navy man Mark is about to head to Beijing on a trade mission to shore up ties. He knows where this nation's bread is buttered, it would be good for others to do the same. Obviously he isn't being paid by ASPI.
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