Yes Australia is indeed in peril !
I heard yesterday that Australia is to decommission our "fleet" of
air warfare destroyers of which we have three.
This reminds me of the similarity to our power stations.
We blew them up before we had the replacement generation in place.
Now we are blowing up our destroyers before the replacements are built !

Like the plan to install 22,000 solar panels a day for 8 years
and 40 wind turbines a month for 8 years
and a fleet of 10 destroyers in one year no doubt !
and a million homes by next week probably.

Is there anybody in the public service or parliament who can see the
absurdity in all this ?
Has anyone in the public service or parliament ever ever had to run
a project that had to organise men, materials, factory production,
transport, remote area accommodation, remote area canteens, etc etc ?

ttbn is right Australia is stuffed !

Nuremberg Dan, Nimbin Paul here,

I totally agree with you. Australia has never gained anything from our supposed US alliance, except dead Australian in far off wars! Can anyone actually point to a US war of aggression, post WWII, where the result has been a win for "freedom and democracy", Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. Don't mention Bermuda that was a glorious victory.

This Liberal party hack, Pezullo was there when ScumO' and Co tried to shirt front China, which only resulted in a massive loss of trade for Australia, look at the wine industry. Even though Albo has tried to patch things up, the wine industry here is a wreak now in need of life support.

" Can anyone actually point to a US war of aggression, post WWII, where the result has been a win for "freedom and democracy""

South Korea.

Cold war - ie Poland, Czechia, Latvia. Lithuania, Estonia, Germany (eastern part).

"Can anyone actually point to a US war of aggression, post WWII, where the result has been a win for "freedom and democracy""

Why post WWII? Maybe because they are good examples of great improvement? And why "war of aggression"? Why not just war or military intervention?

There was a cold war, and the Soviets engaged in many military interventions that could accurately be described as wars of aggression, and Russia is trying to relive the good old days by invading Ukraine. Many communist regimes didn't require wars of aggression for their demise. Most died of natural causes, leaving a memory of corruption, incompetence and brutality that is kept alive in the lore of those nations.

To answer your question Paul: Kuwait. Saddam's invasion was supported by the 400,000 Palestinians living there at the time. Roughly 20,000 Palestinians live there today.

Baz

Yep. Australia is a fool's paradise. It has been so for too long now for much to be done, particularly by the fools in Canberra. It is hard to believe that people, even politicians, could be so foolish. Perhaps it is deliberate; the self-hatred is at work. They have weakly accepted the evil white man, the wicked West narrative.

Cowardice and lack of conviction in those who should be standing up for Western traditions and values has brought Australia down to the level it is now at.

Albanese's hard Left tactics are part of the decline. Substitution of abuse for debate; hiding details, and pursuing an extreme agenda behind distractions of identity politics, supermarket prices, and “crises” like climate, “misinformation” and “disinformation” - to be censored; all the hallmarks of totalitarianism while putting on a pretence of affability and reason.

The man is a scoundrel of the first order.

The crap about American ‘wars of aggression’ is another smoke screen used by Australia's Fifth Column of Communists. The situation at hand is about Australia's defence - or lack of defence - against actually very aggressive and, and getting more aggressive, Communist China, rogue Islamist countries like Iran; and North Korea, and Russia.

The only bad move by America in regard to China, was its push for the vile Communists to enter the WTO, which they have been using as a war against the West ever since.

The China threat will increase. Unemployment among 16-24 year olds is 15%. 70 million apartments are abandoned or unfinished. Gross national debt is 320% of GDP. Growth is forecast at 3%, dropping to 2% by 2030. Global manufacturers are moving to India and Vietnam.

ttbn,

Maybe China's economic decline is another example of what happens when nations become insular, paranoid and controlling? I'm not saying China isn't a danger, especially with all the military aid being sent to Russia, but China's world view might ultimately be of most harm to the Chinese.