.... what the military might of China might inflict upon us
o sung wu,
Yes, particularly when one considers the lack of interest & willingness of people to participate in defending the land they've been given the privilege to exist on in comfort, courtesy of the Taxpayers !

G'day there, INDIVIDUAL...

Yeah, mate, they just don't get it. We've more to worry about than a Republic. We should reintroduce National Service, strengthen our Air and Naval capacity and start training, training and training. Make no mistake; China is the greatest threat to us as Germany was to Europe all those years ago.

o sung wu,
That's why I won't waver from my much repeated statement that Australia's worst enemy is within !

You're not wrong about that, my friend! We've weakened our selves, from the classroom to the workplace, with the entire working population getting softer. In contrast, our potential enemies are becoming much more challenging and more resilient. At the same time, we just sit around and listen to our banal leadership drone on about matters that are of little consequence for the overall betterment of our nation.

individual,

Right. We are not in trouble because barbarians have breached the gates. Our own people have denigrated into barbarism and are taking down our civilisation from within. They still take the benefits provided by the people they hate, though.

Yes o sung wu, & one of the main problems is too many of the good ones have had enough. A number of the best we had in the navy got out, because they couldn't stand the woke garbage going on from the top down.

The rapid fermentation of the defense force is our undoing. It is bad enough that those with the ability & responsibility to run our ships are forced to make do with half trained, & often disinterested new "manpower" coming from recruit schools. Now with the big push to satisfy the feminists movement with more girls in uniforms, they are having to do with many females who can't understand the training, & never will. Most just don't have the aptitude to be able to understand the equipment they are expected to either use or worse, maintain.

Far too many recruits are pushed out of trade courses with the hope that they will learn on the job. This may have worked in the past, but today there are so few who know what they are doing, there are not enough to train these new chums.

On one occasion my son was telling me about the army catastrophes during a beach landing exercise, I said to him, "Thank god then, that we have the airforce". His reply, "Dad they are the ones who keep crashing their choppers onto our decks". God help us.

Rather than worry about a republic, we should be deciding who we want to surrender to.