Once more Australia is playing its part in America's war preparations. Under the guise of "peace and stability" Australia has signed a "down payment" $200 billion deal to purchase nuclear powered, and presumably nuclear armed, submarines from the Worlds two biggest warmongers America and Britain.

Make no mistake the capitalist economy of America, and therefore the rest of the world, including Australia, is teetering on collapse. With massive bank failures, due to investments in phoney money, escalating interest rates as the bond holders try to recoup capital losses, added to this is a plunging stock market, reflecting the worthlessness of US business, all shades of 1929 revisited.

Americas only salvation is war with their biggest political and economic rival, China. The war in Ukraine has failed to cut it as far as US Capitalism is concerned, and only a China War will offer relief, as trillions of dollars are injected back into American Capitalism.

Unfortunately for the Americans and World Capitalism, China is no Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan where past US wars of aggression have helped stabilise Capitalism back home through massive wealth transference. Australia may be getting nuclear subs on the never never plan, but China has nuclear weapons here and now!

Paul, I hear you clapping for the rise of Communism and the power of China's war preparedness.

No Josephus, that wasn't Paul you heard clapping it was me.

- And I wasn't clapping for the rise of communism, I was clapping for the downfall of the wests policies of endless wars, and it's standard foreign policy of threats, blackmail, regime change and military interventions.

I support a multipolar world where nations treat each other respectfully, not don't stage coloured revolutions or involve themselves in other nations internal affairs.

I oppose economic sanctions as collective punishment and I also oppose the Wests attempts to conduct regime changes and install their own western-friendly puppet rulers.

AC

If there is an armed conflict with China, you are very likely to find yourself in an internment camp, such is your obviously anti-Australian, anti-Western ranting.

The government has said the subs will not be nuclear armed, and there is every reason to expect that to be the case. It would not be in our interests. The Australian public would hate it. We have legal obligations under non-proliferation treaties that forbid it. It would make us an international pariah. Perhaps most importantly, two of the countries most likely to oppose it would be the UK and USA, which are part of the highly exclusive nuclear armed club and are fiercely committed to not admitting new members, even friendly ones.

The world is becoming a more dangerous and uncertain place, and we need the ability to defend ourselves and our national interest. We will also need allies to do that. I hope they don’t only come from the Anglosphere – the many countries in Southern and Eastern Asia that respect democracy and the rule of law also have an interest in forging alliances, be they economic, political and/or military.

And now Paul Keating wants to tell us all how to do it.

You would think that a bloke who was so incompetent when he had the "leavers" as he called it, in his hands he gave us 17% interest rates, would have the decency to shut up & slink away.