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Wow!
'Who is your neighbour?'
'Whatever you did for the least of the robots, you did for Me.'
LOL!
Of course if Trump could persuade Xi to send some PLAN assets to the Gulf (!) that would free up USN vessels to, I dunno, patrol off the coast of Taiwan.
The US has nearly 50% of the world's warship tonnage so they don't really need assistance.
On the other hand, if a US vessel were to be sunk, that would be a tragedy.
Specifically designed for a single war. (Inefficient I know. OTOH we don't want a profits tax based on the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-39.)
If you're going to have a war profits tax it had better be a long war. Otherwise by the time you've pushed the bill through both houses, the war is over.
Something something supply and demand.
There were anti-profiteering laws in the first and second world wars, with various levels of success. We don't have proper wars anymore
I mean, why not? It's never going to happen but an opposition can always be 'open' to these things.
Nice.
Fact-checking in real time is hard, unless the journalist is well prepared.
Normally fact-checking is best left to op-ed columnists or their video equivalents.
Some trust in chariots?
Two-thirds of the Senate voting to convict Trump, while a way away, is still the best option to remove Trump before 2029.
The 82nd Airborne storming the White House remains a distant second.
Bunton and Field were just along for the ride for deferring supply. Withers and Fraser looked at the actually existing position and went for it.
I understand that some Senators, like John Marriott, were about to vote in favour of supply, when 11 Nov happened.
It's not non-violence. It's not a general strike.
The answer is the same since 2017. GOP senators.
Did we have an increasingly uncertain strategic environment as early as 2020? Very well.
I miss the days of no credible threat for the next 10 years.
Historical Pharaonic or Torah Pharaonic?
Asking for a friend.
For most Australians it's The Dismissal, with endearing protagonists Reg 'The Toecutter' Withers, Malcolm Fraser and Sir John Kerr.
The Americans achieved their aims: removing a prickly government and serious discussion of neutrality off the table for years. Like a coup but without the Pew-pew-pew!
An achievement to warm the hearts of psephologists everywhere!
The pair are a cut above Sen. Malcolm Roberts but it's a pretty low bar.
Ford presided over the 1975 Australian coup. (Like the 1973 Chilean coup, the principle public actors were all locals.)
Today, despite two tariff increases, Australia and the US enjoy a cordial relationship. 2/2
Apart from sending in the Marines during the Mayaguez Affair, Ford tended to work indirectly. Arming two of the sides in the Angolan Civil War. Green lighting the invasion of East Timor. Being President when the US-supported South African A-bomb was completed. 1/2
We have an 85 years long alliance with the USA. We don't have an 85 years long alliance with Donald Trump.
The ANZUS alliance survived Gerald Ford. It may yet survive Donald Trump.
''Tis a favourite project of mine
A value of pi to assign
I'd fix it at 3
For it's easier you see
Than 3.14159.'
Indeed. It's not a terror attack if the regime has killed more of their civilians during the financial year than the enemy has.
After all that's happened, can't see Trump winning in 2028.
Oh yes. Spoken at an Australia Day ant-immigration rally. Background here:
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
The US may not necessarily send troops to Kharg Island. Bombing is the new controlling.
Not speaking _ex cathedra_ but I suspect the katechon was Jimmy Carter.
Good question. Ask it of the GOP senators.
Yes. Not much use, rspecially as only 1200 of the 2500 will be 'Warfighters'.
The other 1300 will still have responsible jobs.
I'd tentatively suggest there were both a power imbalance, and a violation of the employer/employee relationship..
