Posted on 07/15/2015 3:59:59 PM PDT by naturalman1975
Australians have been delivered a timely warning they may be entering an era of significant strategic shifts and they should not take for granted three crucial relationships.
One is with our closest military ally, the US, which we presume will always be there to help defend us.
Another is with the world’s most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia, which is growing and changing fast on our doorstep.
The third leg of what has been in recent history a sturdy triumvirate of friendships is China, but a new report suggests the possibility of an uncertain future with the unthinkable catastrophe of a ballistic missile exchange with the nation’s main trading partner.
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Chinese operations in the Indian Ocean are a growing concern, particularly for Australia, the report says.
“Beijing may slowly be shifting from anti-access and area denial into a more power-projection focused force,” it says.
The report observes bluntly that China’s growing blue water navy and its long-range missile forces threaten to put Canberra within range of the People’s Liberation Army.
It says the era of regional stability backed by uncontested US maritime superiority “seems to be coming to a close” and Australia’s geographic location is more important to the US today than at any time since World War II.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
Note to Australia and New Zealand.
obama is almost done destroying and gutting our military.
You will be on your own.
Good luck with that.
Get nukes. Get them as soon as possible.
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Former submariners from the USA can get Australian citizenship in a little over one year if they serve with the Australian submarine force.
Yes, it is more important to Obama’s goals to have more people on the government payroll and the government dole than to have a military capable of securing peace in the world.
It is more important to Obama’s goals to have more people dependent on the government than to have free people working for their own sustenance and their own goals.
Free thinking self-reliant people question orders and demand that government respect their rights and property. Obama wants timid compliant people dependent in mind and body on Big Brother.
“The report observes bluntly that China’s growing blue water navy and its long-range missile forces threaten to put Canberra within range of the People’s Liberation Army.”
A colleague from the UK recently observed and said that a couple of major cities in Australia look increasingly like South East Asia. A closer look at Chatswood for example. “long-range missile” and “the People’s Liberation Army” seem additional.
I agree with others - the days of the United States being a Superpower do appear over, and are DEFINITELY OVER if the Democrats hang on to the White House.
With us gone, I think your best option is to cut a deal with China. I suspect that they’ll be happy just to be treated as a major player and likely don’t have any interest in going on a world rampage (like the Soviets, during the Cold War).
Best of luck...
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