Francesca

There is a plethora of evidence proving the consequences of how we should not trust the US alliance to serve our needs effectively.

I viewed your video link without any surprises; but I do not support a full suck up to China as your video proposes, but a very much different attachment and expectation than now towards the US, for help on the issue of Chinese encroachment.

Comments by Trump in his early days in the White House, should have rung alarm bells to wake Australia to the need to be more independent of any anticipated support from them.

Their assistance in the Pacific during WW11 was begrudging, belated and problematic, albeit ultimately successful, more as luck would have it.

Anybody with half a brain can see at a glance, they definitely can’t be trusted: Follow the history of Israel for evidence of their unreliability and at times, treachery. That’ll be our lot!

The inevitability is China is moving into the South East Asia and the South Pacific.
The time has passed for any serious military reaction to that move.
We’ve been done cold on the issue.

As your video rightly points out, the chances of Australia becoming a sacrificial lamb by the US, which results in a wipe out, as did Ukraine under their naive trust of US meddling, goes without need for comment.

Dan.

Even though the US is unreliable it was still a necessary alliance- at least they had significant commonality with British Australia- but it seems to be becoming untenable and unstable due to the influx of Mexicans. The efforts to dilute the power of the US has been in play for a while by multiple groups of subversives often working through proxies- sadly this will result in a more unstable and tyrannical world.

Canem Malum

The last hope for US global supremacy was lost with the scorching of Donald Trump.

Trump was street wise: A serious and experienced negotiator: A true Statesman!

We should unhitch our cart from the US until they again show the world they are not a bunch of escaped lunatics set free in the armoury.

The US is out of control!

Dan

You may be right Diver Dan- there may come a time when "We should unhitch our cart from the US". We should certainly be cautious- especially with Sleepy Joe at the helm. The polarization of current US politics makes it hard for allies to know whether they should continue with their bilateral arrangements. Perhaps Australia should form an alliance with the US Republican Party rather than the US. Or maybe just with the "Sons of the American Revolution".

Francesca could be one of the increasing number of people who don't know history; they think that nothing happened before they were born.

I agree we need to be more self-reliant and independent. And that means we need nuclear weapons response in the defense locker Nuclear power to unhitch us from dependance on foreign fossil fuel and with the latter, an ability to manufacture all we need right here.

It also means we just don't have the luxury of sitting on our hands thinking about it! But need to crack on with very rapid rail and the building of electric powered vehicles here.

Electric trucks are doable now and should be rolling off of our assembly line now And why not an electric version of the Bushmaster? That can be recharged anywhere with portable solar arrays?

Ditto a locally built light armored German tank, the weasel? Only, the steel could be replaced with graphene reinforced titanium, and up to 200 hundred times tougher/blast resistant, yet as light as an aluminum version? And that means they could be parachuted in almost anywhere!

Mach 10 drones that can be packed with explosives, that as remotely controlled weapons, could sink battleships and destroy tanks etc.

Why rapid rail, well, very rapid deployment and a bunch of new bomb blast resistant tunnels.

A serious debate? No that's done now what we need is a serious DO! And all hands to the wheels. And we do not need to advertise it! Just get on with it and end the useless prevarication!
Alan B.