Ryans recent article wasn't bad.
http://mickryan.substack.com/p/diplomacy-on-the-side-a-new-peace

"The war Washington and Tehran are not quite fighting, not quite negotiating and which neither is winning, took a turn this week. Trump administration officials have settled into what several analysts are now calling a “no war, no peace” approach, mixing periodic strikes with sustained economic pressure rather than either a return to high-level combat operations or a full ceasefire."

Trumps trying to impose the Israeli 'Mowing the grass' Plan
http://www.dw.com/en/trumps-iran-strategy-could-this-become-a-forever-war/a-78875030

>>According to the news portal Axios, it was considering limited strikes, at regular intervals if necessary, to prevent Iran from reconstituting its military capabilities in the Strait of Hormuz. An American government representative used a concept from Israeli security policy to describe this idea: He called it "mowing the grass."

The metaphor refers to a strategy that doesn't even attempt to promise that an opponent will be defeated once and for all. It is enough to regularly reduce the enemy's military capabilities to the point where the threat remains manageable. When the grass grows back, you "mow" it again."<<

The MOU a ruse to buy time and rearm, Trump can't get caught in a 'Forever War' and he can't admit he lost. His plan's to hit Iran periodically and enrich himself from the war-related market volatility, but Iran is just like No, we'll take the fight to you, your interests instead.

The US had to move carriers and air defense from the Pacific to the Middle East, and building it's future strategy around previous failures and limited munitions.
They're playing whack-a-mole without the ability to succeed anywhere. Trumps enriching himself sending his envoys who are just as interested in looking for business projects and getting money out of the gulf countries, all while the whole world pays for it.

What exactly do you expect us to do about China except be a barking U.S. poodle?
With little to any chance of winning anything, in any conflict.

Playing the poodle is going to get us swiftly kicked if it comes to it and for what?
Why does China need to invade anyone?

"China is the aggressor, not Australia or any part of the West, including America."

Do you even understand the world we live in ttbn?

Why is China the aggressor?
Because they built forward defenses in the South China Sea?
Because they fired a missile or sailed a little warship around our country in international waters enough for you to have a complete poodle-level panic attack?

No, because they challenge US hegemony.
Not militarily, financially.

They challenge the neoconservative system, built on sanctions and regime changes, unilateral US sanctions are enforced via the SWIFT payment system, and US reserve currency is backed by SWIFT and the petrodollar.

China is the aggressor because America needs to force the world to hold and use its currency for trade, and many in the world are fed up with it, some 43% of the planet under US sanctions.
They stay on top, by beating everyone else down.

Do you understand what the Wolfowitz doctrine is?
I ask you these things, but you don't seem to know anything.

Do you even know that Chia bailed the U.S. out in 2009.
Do you even know that China was one of the largest holders of U.S. debts?

Don’t Count on China to Bail Out the Global Economy This Time
http://www.aei.org/commentary/dont-count-on-china-to-bail-out-the-global-economy-this-time/

FFS if you don't want them sailing their warship around our country stop provoking them by sailing down the effing Taiwan Strait!

We provoke them, then they respond.

And then you're the useful idiot ttbn, that uses that Chinese response to our provacations to try and drum up some more warmongerings...

'I call China's toughness with our Australian toughness'
You idiot, I dare you to go say that to Xi's face.
Bring back Tony Abbot and he might shirtfront him for you.
(Another tough guy)

'We were spying on them Chinese people in the South Pacific and oh golly me, they flew too close to our plane and launched flares, oh golly gosh, I need to yap yap yap now like an injured-poodle, u-huh u-huh'

Look sure I think we need defense for defense sake, but not tied to Americas skirt.

US military and spy bases in Australia, mapped
http://youtu.be/xkia6zeu4oo

They're going to bring 1000 U.S. Navy to Perth for the sub base.

If you want to be the clown, down complain when you get a pie in the face.

Really its stupid, and pathetic.

We sail up the Taiwan Strait beating our chests all tough and macho.
And the only point of it is to stand over them, or to get them to react.
And when they react, then we can scream

'China's acting aggressively!'
'They're the aggressor!'

No, WE are shitstirring antagonising weaklings that act tough and scream like banshees the moment China kindly tries to smack us aside like stupid annoying insects.

Empires don't last, they all have a used by date.
They eventually collapse upon the weight of themselves.
America is trying to break the rules of the universe.

Once you accept and get past this, maybe well get some sense!

To whom am I a useful idiot, AC? All I'm interested in is Australia's lack of ability to defend itself; while you charge in raging about rubbish that has nothing to do with Australia's inability to defend itself. Stop drinking. Start thinking.