The Left appear to be agents for the CCP.

Our response cannot be a repeat of too little too late with regard to national security. And if that means national service? So be it! Others served as Nashos and it didn't hurt them, just made them team players and better more independent self reliant people, for the experience.

That said, our response to the latest threat must include a nuclear capability! And MSR thorium nuclear power to restart local manufacture and copious alternative fuel supplies.

Lectern thumping and sabre rattling, finger pointing, rhetoric can only inflame the hostile entity.

We need unity and simply cracking on with rearming and reinforcing to the point where the price paid by any intending foe is far too great for the prize! And getting up to speed, militarily, after the invasion a la Ukraine, is not advisable, is it?
Alan B.

Now is not the time for the fifth column to divide us along left and right! We are all Australians and in it together!

Saying anything else, is like saying the lefties in the Ukraine initiated the invasion of their homeland! It's all just fifth column B.S. writ large.

Put an effing sock in it C.M. and crawl back into your hole or your Chinese operator!
Alan B.

Labor saying the Morrison Govt. could have prevented the China-Solomon Islands is about clearest display of their incompetence & ignorance yet.
Anyone who believes Australia could have swayed the Solomon Island Govt. not to go with China is nothing short certifiable.
Labor Git nr 3 Plibersek, said the Pacific islanders' main concern is Climate change yet they align themselves with the greatest polluter on the planet ? Surely, their carbon footprint will help lower the sea level of the Pacific.
Also Alan B, you're in all probability scarily close with your remark re the Left in Ukraine.

Alan B said "Now is not the time for the fifth column to divide us along left and right! We are all Australians and in it together! Saying anything else, is like saying the lefties in the Ukraine initiated the invasion of their homeland! It's all just fifth column B.S. writ large. Put an effing sock in it C.M. and crawl back into your hole or your Chinese operator!"

Answer- With respect Alan B- I see the problem as similar to the bath problem.
The Chinese and Communists and Woke and and Minorities are seeking power disproportionate with their representation- do you turn off the external tap or the internal tap. But yes you shouldn't fight a battle on too many fronts. But sometimes you can come up with commonalities in both- a weapon that destroys both opponents at once- and makes the nation secure in one blow. It takes bold courage and decisiveness.

We are often known by what we hate. I'm sorry that you hate me- as is indicated by your response. You could have merely asked why I see things the way I do- but- your chose a different path.

I can understand that those seeking to come to a consensus are sometimes frustrated by those that don't believe that consensus is possible because they see their negotiating partner as irrational in the sense that they are not debating in good faith. It's easier to derail a negotiation that to build trust. It's about trust- in this case- do you trust the left and their pet and foreign communists. The current state of consciousness of the soft and hard left as well as the soft and hard "Freedom Movement/ Locke Liberal" only understands power. Perhaps you can study negotiation tactics to understand things better.

I can understand that you might be frustrated Alan B- but I'll continue to represent things according to particular perspicacity

"US delegation warns Solomon Islands prime minister over security pact with China. If Beijing maintains a military presence in the Solomons, White House says US will ‘respond accordingly’". (South China Post).

How unlike Australia. Does that make Morrison weaker than Biden? Or, are things here worse than we think, and we can do sweet FA about anything China does.