Ironically, by provoking a war with China that was never necessary we risk creating a situation we claim to be preventing.

Like giving into any overblown fear, it’s the inability to control our fear that causes the outcome, nor the actual danger.
Just as our twenty year war to ‘rid the world of the Taliban’ actually made them stronger and more entrenched than ever.
Our war in the 1960s and 1970s to stop the spread of Communism in Vietnam?
Ronald Reagan’s War or Drugs, to stop ‘American kids taking drugs, and to ensure the NarcoTraffickers don’t prosper?
The US doesn’t ‘win’ wars anymore. That’s an outdated concept. They simply use them to turn public money to private money. Then the simply ‘shut them down’ like the rigged casino they are. And move on to the next.
If you think that the US military coming to ‘liberate China’ is something you should celebrate, maybe take a trip to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya. Or the poor suburbs of the US for that matter.
If the US wants to ‘nation build’ and ‘liberate’, I know of a place closer to their home that could do with some justice, equality and medical care for all.

That’s a fight I’d happily contribute to.

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20 Sep
All the mistakes were made in Afghanistan are being repeated re China.

1. We are blindly following the US in order to ‘make them like us’. By doing so we both empower them to pursue a reckless unilateral policy, and lose our chance to be a moderating influence.
2. We are (ostensibly) trying to influence domestic policy of a sovereign country (Human Rights) by threatening their sovereignty, and dropping bombs on them.
We have no workable plan except propaganda, and sending lots and lots of military hardware into the region which will then (magically) kill ‘the bad guys’ if they don’t do what we want, but spare the ‘women and girls’
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20 Sep
These guys were Afghan Special Forces drawn from the Hazara population, who, as the descendants of Genghis Khan’s invaders, were both a distinct racial and religious group (Shia). They were fearless and effective. Image
It demonstrates our duplicity as allies however that despite our claims of ‘steadfast brothers in arms’ we not only abandoned them but won’t allow them to emigrate to Australia.
Many of them will die at the hands of the Taliban (they are instantly recognisable), and many have already drowned trying to get to Australia in leaky boats.
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14 Sep
I woke (even earlier) this morning and I’m in a mischievous mood, so I’ll give my supporters something to laugh about in these ‘difficult times’ with this thread

1/7
Many of my haters still proclaim:
“You shouldn’t have leaked to the ABC, and should have let Defence internal mechanisms sought things out! (traitor!)’

(Apart from this demonstrating a complete ignorance of the facts of my case) I’ll give you a quote from my book:

2/7
‘I was faced with a stark reality. Our ‘heroes’ often weren’t heroes. Our villains often weren’t villains. Our claimed justification for the war were lies, and our claimed ‘progress’ was simply a lie made each year…
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14 Sep
Role models can appear when you least expect it. For all the great and good you meet at University this man was a stand-out. Percy Lewis emigrated to Britain from Trinidad and joined the RAF.
He eventually became a pro boxer, and bookmaker, but possibly his greatest achievement was changing people’s lives. He spent about 40 years coaching the Oxford Boxing team. He never his a training or raised his voice, but also never taken for granted.
Few people that came in contact with him didn’t revere him. His boxing weight was around 58 kgs, yet I don’t remember him ever not being the ‘biggest person’ in the room.
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22 Aug
The US Govt paints itself as ‘The West Wing’ but in reality it’s ‘The Sopranos’.
But less likeable.
If Trump wants to ‘go back’, the US should let him. He can take Bush, Cheney, Petraus and Pompeo with him.

They can show the world how good they are with ‘geopolitics’.
If there is going to be an Afghan War re-match, it’s only fair that the Washington Suits, and armchair experts fight it.

Soldiers have suffered enough at the hands of idiotic politicians and NeoCons whose only experience of Asia is fighting over a bill in a Lebanese restaurant
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11 Jun
Ben Roberts-Smith claims being awarded the VC in 2010 made him a target for ‘jealous people’.

But the first time it was alleged he murdered a child was three years before in 2007.

BRS claimed his accuser was ‘weak and hopeless’.

But only after the accusation was made.
Ben Roberts-Smith twice changed his story about what happened in 2007, claiming there were two boys, and they were armed. Before ‘remembering the truth’

BRS put it down to a mistake of memory.

But he had been awarded a Medal of Gallantry for that day. You’d remember that.
The above facts were in a book by one of Australia’s most respected journalists who spent years researching it.

They have never been challenged.
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