Every day I get up with good intentions and a great
attitude. Then I make the mistake of going on the forum
and reading the negativity.

Life is too short to spend precious time trying to explain
things and convince people who want to live in doom and
gloom. I'm starting to see that we can't expect to live
a positive life if we associate with negative people.

Cutting negative people from our lives doesn't mean we
hate them. It simply means we respect ourselves.

I'm out.

ttbn,

'We need to concentrate on our own defence and our own region before it is too late."

Exactly, but how might Australia fare on its own without a nuclear deterrent? Much worse than Ukraine would do alone against Russia I think. Russia would have rolled though Ukraine in a short time were it not for western nations standing united. Instead, much of Russia's military is destroyed and they lack air defence for their military airfields.

I see that Foxy thinks it the best option to stick her head in the sand. You are far too intelligent and well read to do the same.

Out of interest, Ukraine is getting over 30 gigawatts of power from Europe to keep the lights on. Do you think they will restore their energy grid with wind and solar as it is supposed to be the cheapest and best option according to the CSIRO?

Fester

My worry is how would Australia fare, period; with or without nuclear defence. At the moment we have very little of anything to defend ourselves with, including personnel. Our defence has been neglected for at least 20 years, but here we are now facing a situation which knowledgeable people say is similar to that of almost 80 years ago. We have just honoured DDay, a reminder that will be ignored again.

AUKUS, sometime, never. We should be ready now, not a decade or more away. There are things that we can manufacture now, ourselves, but that might upset China!

Australia is a democratic, peace-loving country; but other countries are not.

In the meantime, we have to hope that the U.S. and other allies who take defence seriously will come to our rescue. But, we know what Donald Trump, if he becomes President, thinks about countries who don't pull their weight and rely on America.

Too many people put their heads in the sand. Reality is just too scary for them. ‘Heads-in-sand’ pretty much sums up Australia today.

What happens to Ukraine is anyone's guess. I'm surprised that they have lasted this long. I think it will be some time before they think about their energy network, and it might be up to Russia. Renewable energy is madness for any country, and they wouldn't be getting power from Europe if the Europeans, unlike Australia, had not admitted that that wind and solar was a fairytale.

It's a good thing that Ukraine can't rely on us for power - or much else after their request for our unwanted helicopters was denied.

Foxy thinks that anyone who disagrees with her, or more precisely, that she disagrees with is being negative.

I'm positive she's wrong.

mhaze,

I have a problem with any nation including our own, which engages in sabre-ratting and warmongering. Acts of intimidation such as sailing war ships close to other nations in a show of belligerency is dangerous for peace and stability.

No, I don't claim to be a deep thinker, but unlike YOU I do think about these things. I don't simply carry on like YOU with your trained monkey mimicry of the words of the Dangerous Doctor Donald.

BTW; Are you still claiming China has a "bigger" navy than America? AND you never answered my question, do you adorn yourself with mock buffalo horns and paint you face red, white and blue? How often do you dress up like that?

Thanks ttbn. You're right that we need to focus on the Marxist's in Australia, rather than the Marxist's in China, but they are related issues. And even if it may be difficult to track the money or the influence it is probably still there. And ASIO has been warning politician's and others for some time about CCP Chinese Communist Party having influence at Australian Universities. There was even the ironic CCP controlled Confucius Institute educating our high school children. There appears to relatively free flow between China and Australia. A classic description of a leaky intelligence environment.