An experienced senior military officer is “part of a dying age”? We will all be dying unless Australian politicians and bureaucrats start listening and stop hiding behind their desks.

In Australia, these people are so paralysed, so fearful of reality and so completely ignorant of history. Cut them off from their history, said Karl Marx, and they will believe anything.

The situation now reeks of the 1930s. The buffoons in charge now don't know what World War is. The situation in Australia is now the same as it was when we were caught napping by WW11. We are appeasing China, just like Britain appeased Germany, and crapped on about ‘peace in our time’.

The idiot Albanese is currently sucking up to pissant Pacific Islands who offer us NOTHING; they are leeches, not allies. China doesn't need to do whatever he thinks it wants to do with the Islands. China can take out Australia from mainland China. And Australia is not equipped to do a thing about it.

It's only a matter of time before people with their heads in the sand get their still-exposed arses blown off, with those of the rest of us - not just the China apologists, the traitors and the ignorant.

Yes ttbn, he's a neoconservative living in the unipolar moment.
- But he does have some sensible positions regarding drones.

Google? 'what is a neoconservative living in the unipolar moment'

AI Overview A neoconservative living in the unipolar moment refers to an American political intellectual or policymaker during the post-Cold War era who advocated for the aggressive use of U.S. military power and global primacy to shape the world in America's image.
The "unipolar moment" was a term coined by columnist Charles Krauthammer in 1990 to describe the period following the collapse of the Soviet Union, during which the United States stood as the world's sole, unchallenged superpower. For neoconservatives (or "neocons"), this unprecedented geopolitical advantage was not a time to retreat into isolationism, but a historic opportunity to lock in American hegemony.

Linked articled from Google AI below
- Here's your dying age:

The Rise and Demise of American Unipolarism: Neoconservatism and US Foreign Policy 1989–2009 Maria Ryan

This essay will analyze the ‘unipolar turn’ in neoconservative foreign policy thinking from 1989–2009. Its core premise is that the touchstone of neoconservative foreign policy in these years was the preservation of America’s so-called unipolar moment—its post-Cold War status as the single pole of power in every region of the world. This, rather than the export or promotion of democracy, constituted the central organizing principle of neoconservative foreign policy in this period. However, the consensus around the concept of unipolarism began to fracture in the mid-2000s as leading neocon thinkers began to grapple with the American failure in Iraq and the rise of other great powers, which challenged their assumptions about the reach and depth of American power.

Why did the West fail?
Fighting wars for Israel, that resulted in Muslims bum-rushing every western nation...

It's not even feasable for the U.S. to return to the Persian Gulf.
Iran has effectively booted them out. Yay!

Who are the ‘gang of five’ pushing Australia to war?
http://www.higginschambers.com.au/who-are-the-gang-of-five-pushing-australia-to-war/

AC,

You and people like you have no interest in Australia, society or anything else. You probably have never read a book; you trawl for the most obscure, nutty ideas you can find online.

Worse, you think that OLO is to be used as a pissing contest. I am not interested in how far you can piss. Just state your opinion and piss off until the next time you have something to say.

That's not true ttbn.
I just fail to see any logic in your arguments.

You're saying the Chinese are planning on invading Australia?
Lets take this 'War with China scenario'
How does this situation come to be?
China's got what 2 billion people.

Australia declares war against China or China declares war on Australia?
The first would seem fairly irrational, the second, how long do you think we'll last?
In days?

Look over in the M/E, look in Ukraine
Does it look like America can defend anyone?
How much air defense did the United States remove from South Korea and the Pacific to send to the M/E to get blown up and deplete their missile and interceptor inventory in just a few weeks.

The West doesn't even have the supply chains for rare earth metals or the production capacity to build the weapons needed in the event of a full scale war.

I don't want the West to go to war against China on their doorstep, because the West will lose.

What we have here is the forums regular Old Fart with his sabre rattling regarding China. The fella knows he's personally safe from any possible conflict in the world, like another forum fella who calls for Natinal Service for young people he probably dodged militarism when he had the opportunity. Always gung-ho when it comes to turning young Australians into cannon fodder, but these guys wouldn't apply that rule to themselves.

Like so many of the spats and straw hats brigade, he harks back almost 100 years to the days of Neville Chamberlain claiming; "The situation in Australia is now the same as it was when we were caught napping by WW11" Really, are you serious, so delusional!