Leslie

'Most posts have missed Hendy's real objective which is to justify the $12 billion on the F35 Fighters which are required to meet Australia's commitment to the US policy of containing China.'

Exactly. And the funding for which will require raising the retirement age to 70, further dismantling of the welfare system, privatisation of what little is left of the revenue-earning parts of the public sector, and further cuts to public health and education spending. As for our crumbling public infrastructure - well, a bit of spit and a bandaid or two is all it needs to keep standing for another decade or so.

And this is only the start. Australia will need to squeeze many more tens of billions of dollars from the public coffers to dutifully fund our imperial ally's coming war with China and Russia - a conflict that, unless the Western media starts to show a smidgin of long overdue gumption, is all but unavoidable.

As for the Ukraine, it has SFA to do with Australia, not because it's on the other side of the globe and its history is light years away from our own, but because the Ukrainian people - especially in the south and east - have made their feelings embarrassingly clear to Washington, London and Berlin that they know full well who is really screwing their country.

Killarney that $12 billion for useless fighter planes is over $2000 + interest for every household in Australia. If there is a war with China conventional weapons will be useless.

As previously stated ,Russia and China have a majority of Govt Banks and cannot be brought under control of the Western Debt money creation system.This is why they are being surrounded and demonised. Prior 2008 GFC Russia and China were our friends and were expected to buckle under our financial system. The opposite happened and the BRICS nations got stronger. The West is willing to have a nuclear war to achieve their NEW WORLD ORDER.

Good to see the people of South Western Ukraine know who is screwing them because the people of this country have not a clue.http://cecaust.com.au/