The problem is that the ttbns in the country are acting like prostitutes trying to beg for and ensure the U.S protection.

This is how America gets away with all the bad things it does.
No-one will call the U.S. out if they are all begging for the U.S. protection.

"AUKUS: what value does it generate for the US?"
Exactly.
We should say, no we don't want your military bases or U.S troops stationed here, we don't want Pine Gap here, we don't want the U.S. naval base in WA and we don't want your old shiddy overprised nuclear subs which wont have nukes and won't be ours anyway.

Please send refund, and you have 28 days to get out.
I'm certain they would change their tune, and if not - good.

Australia should be non-aligned, we don't want the U.S. overpriced useless weapons, or a war with China and we should probably develop our own drone and missile defense to make any attempted invasion too costly..

We tell them, 'If you start a war that inadvertantly destroys our economy, like you have done to others, then we jump ship'.
- A war with China that destroys our economy is a war against us.

'The whores of Babylon'.

no we don't want your military bases or U.S troops stationed here,
Armchair critic,
Under the proviso that you say the same about Mosques !

AC,

You are very naive. Think back to the situation during Trump's last presidency. It was Trump's aim then, as now, to stop wars and deter bullies.

According to General Jack Keane, former vice chief of staff, military, and still advising the Whitehouse, Trump's election has already forced enemies of America and the Free World to rethink and reassess what they would be up against. They probably believed the lying mainstream media and the pollsters, and went into shock just as the pathetic termites in the West itself have after Trumps exceptional win.

We are still in a “pre-war era”; but it will be better with Trump on our side.

Hi Indy,
If you think I'm going to defend the right of Mosques to exist, you'll be waiting a while.
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Not my mental asylum and not my mental patients.

My job is to defend my interests and what I see as my country's interests (and my countries interests are itself an extension of my own interests, but I accept 25 million others also have their own ideas and are also playing the same game)

Hi ttbn,
"You are very naive. Think back to the situation during Trump's last presidency. It was Trump's aim then, as now, to stop wars and deter bullies."
How so?
- Trump 1.0 stacked his administration with warmongers and Zionists, and Trump 2.0 isn't much different, but this was to be expected.

He was big on sanctions, conducted political assassinations, and dug the country further into debt.
He thinks he's going to convince foreign companies to come back to the U.S. after the U.S uses threats, bullying, sanctions and freezing nations central bank assets as well as targetting individual citizens.
He's dreaming if he things foreign companies will come back to the U.S with these risks.

U.S. is circling the drain, and Trumps not going to save it.