Everything you say is true. The US has its own agenda for this war, and it's all about US posturing, the vicious flailing of a dying empire.
But back closer to home, Australia is doing its bit to escalate the conflict.
Today (from The New Daily):
"Australia has announced high-tech support for Ukraine on the first anniversary of the war...by providing drones to help with intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.
"The package of “uncrewed aerial systems” is worth $33 million."
And "Australia has already provided $700 million in support including 90 Bushmasters, 28 armoured vehicles, anti-armour weapons and howitzers and ammunition."
They have stopped even talking about humanitarian aid to Ukraine - which I could go along with.
The initial package, back on 1st March 2022, was announced in a government press statement:
"Australia will provide around $70 million in lethal military assistance to support the defence of Ukraine, including missiles and weapons. We will also provide a range of non-lethal military equipment and medical supplies in response to a specific request from the Ukrainian Government.
"Australia will also commit immediate humanitarian assistance of an initial $35 million to help meet the urgent needs of the Ukrainian people. This assistance will deliver lifesaving services and supplies, including the provision of shelter, food, medical care and water."
When Albanese became PM, he was invited to a NATO (!!!) summit in Madrid, along with his counterparts from New Zealand, South Korea and Japan - none of us NATO members, or even vaguely with any justification to get involved with NATO - which is about the US and Europe trying to keep Russia controlled.
And on a surprise visit to ADF troops in Dubai at the end of June last year, Albo announced further military support for Ukraine:
"He increased Australia’s military support with the promise of 14 more armoured personnel carriers and 20 Bushmaster vehicles."
At that time the media reported that:
"Australia has contributed more than $285 million in military aid, including Bushmaster vehicles and armoured personnel carriers to Ukraine.”
Now, 8 months later, we are up to $700 million, not even counting the new offer of drones.
Does that include the cost of our ADF personnel, who have been stationed in Europe to help with training Ukrainian military forces?
Meanwhile, our health care systems are underfunded and failing - but somehow, when it comes to war, there is never any problem about finding the money. (Same as for our covid response: massive testing, lockdown support, vaccines.)
This is all taxpayer money, being diverted from our true national interests.
We have no reason to consider Russia our enemy, and we should be able to declare a neutral stance, or even take a role in peace negotiations.
I am old enough to remember "All the way with LBJ" back when they were setting up the Vietnam war. And Australia still has basically the same defence policy: Hang onto the coat-tails of the US & hope that they will look after us if push comes to shove.
As back then, I feel ashamed to be Australian. We are a country rich in natural resources, and we could (in theory anyway) develop our own independent foreign policy.
But no, we just join in with the rhetoric of the day, unquestioningly, and do our part to escalate towards a nuclear catastrophe (or at best, a humanitarian one).
The saddest thing about this whole effing thing is there was a pathway to peace almost a year ago. Putin laid out his needs, Zelenski agreed, and the bastards that stole the latest election here in the states said, no way, you keep fighting and killing,here's billions of dollars to do it. We need to vaporize dc.
Apparently there’s no money in peace. Funny that the West wasn’t too concerned about Ukrainian attacks on Russian ethnic groups in the Donbass in 2014.
I think Zelensky will, like Hitler, a 'fake death bunker' disappearance, and shove off to a warm sunny place once everything goes really upside down. When Washington decides he is a too useless, poof.
Americans and Australians have the exact same problem. Our administrations do not represent their people. We both allowed it to happen.
I don’t know what the proportions are of either country regarding who’s awake and who’s asleep. In my nation (US), it’s growing, and approaching half the population, but we are still the minority, and our legislation is against us. The majority of the awake here in the US claim Christianity, and all religions are tolerated except that one. Soon it will be a lot easier to spot a real Christian, versus a fake one, in the United States, because for the first time, we’re about to have to pay a price for our faith. Re: politics, I fear what it would look like to wake up the other half of us. They may all be dead, or dying, from the injections by then. I see unique styles of housing being built up in my area that could be for housing refugees, or FEMA camps. I also wonder if the refugees get that housing, and those of us who resist masking, jabs and permitting pedophilia get sent to the FEMA prison expansions. Most in my nation do not realize they greatly expanded our prisons in the remote locations, at great expense, for nearly no reason. They remain empty, waiting for…?
Some here in the US put our hopes on the fact we never gave up our guns, and many in the UK urge us to keep them for the world’s sake. TBH, I don’t think we have enough armament to be a formidable militia when NATO boots hit the ground to enforce what they’ve been implementing stealthily all this time, but now work in plain sight, because they’re well enough established they don’t care to hide anymore. Soon every nation will see it, bald-faced, and realize it was happening under ALL our noses all along.
Yes—every nation, however you feel about the USA, and our imposter Vegetable-in-Chief and the sick corruption that goes so much deeper than you and I can imagine, or stomach, to hear about. BTW, “they’re” about to replace him with whomever they had in mind all along. He will fall — one last time— both literally and figuratively. His replacement won’t be Kamala. Hopefully, she will not take her life when she finds out they never intended it to be her. The Christians among us in the United States are praying that when her eyes are opened to the puppeteers she’s always been serving, she will turn to truth, redeem her lost years, and not give into despair.
Everything you say is true. The US has its own agenda for this war, and it's all about US posturing, the vicious flailing of a dying empire.
But back closer to home, Australia is doing its bit to escalate the conflict.
Today (from The New Daily):
"Australia has announced high-tech support for Ukraine on the first anniversary of the war...by providing drones to help with intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.
"The package of “uncrewed aerial systems” is worth $33 million."
And "Australia has already provided $700 million in support including 90 Bushmasters, 28 armoured vehicles, anti-armour weapons and howitzers and ammunition."
They have stopped even talking about humanitarian aid to Ukraine - which I could go along with.
The initial package, back on 1st March 2022, was announced in a government press statement:
"Australia will provide around $70 million in lethal military assistance to support the defence of Ukraine, including missiles and weapons. We will also provide a range of non-lethal military equipment and medical supplies in response to a specific request from the Ukrainian Government.
"Australia will also commit immediate humanitarian assistance of an initial $35 million to help meet the urgent needs of the Ukrainian people. This assistance will deliver lifesaving services and supplies, including the provision of shelter, food, medical care and water."
When Albanese became PM, he was invited to a NATO (!!!) summit in Madrid, along with his counterparts from New Zealand, South Korea and Japan - none of us NATO members, or even vaguely with any justification to get involved with NATO - which is about the US and Europe trying to keep Russia controlled.
And on a surprise visit to ADF troops in Dubai at the end of June last year, Albo announced further military support for Ukraine:
"He increased Australia’s military support with the promise of 14 more armoured personnel carriers and 20 Bushmaster vehicles."
At that time the media reported that:
"Australia has contributed more than $285 million in military aid, including Bushmaster vehicles and armoured personnel carriers to Ukraine.”
Now, 8 months later, we are up to $700 million, not even counting the new offer of drones.
Does that include the cost of our ADF personnel, who have been stationed in Europe to help with training Ukrainian military forces?
Meanwhile, our health care systems are underfunded and failing - but somehow, when it comes to war, there is never any problem about finding the money. (Same as for our covid response: massive testing, lockdown support, vaccines.)
This is all taxpayer money, being diverted from our true national interests.
We have no reason to consider Russia our enemy, and we should be able to declare a neutral stance, or even take a role in peace negotiations.
I am old enough to remember "All the way with LBJ" back when they were setting up the Vietnam war. And Australia still has basically the same defence policy: Hang onto the coat-tails of the US & hope that they will look after us if push comes to shove.
As back then, I feel ashamed to be Australian. We are a country rich in natural resources, and we could (in theory anyway) develop our own independent foreign policy.
But no, we just join in with the rhetoric of the day, unquestioningly, and do our part to escalate towards a nuclear catastrophe (or at best, a humanitarian one).
In Australia we just follow along to get along, like the whole Covid fiasco. Thanks for your excellent input Mara.
The saddest thing about this whole effing thing is there was a pathway to peace almost a year ago. Putin laid out his needs, Zelenski agreed, and the bastards that stole the latest election here in the states said, no way, you keep fighting and killing,here's billions of dollars to do it. We need to vaporize dc.
Apparently there’s no money in peace. Funny that the West wasn’t too concerned about Ukrainian attacks on Russian ethnic groups in the Donbass in 2014.
I think Zelensky will, like Hitler, a 'fake death bunker' disappearance, and shove off to a warm sunny place once everything goes really upside down. When Washington decides he is a too useless, poof.
Rationality is not a strong suit at the moment in Washington.
Americans and Australians have the exact same problem. Our administrations do not represent their people. We both allowed it to happen.
I don’t know what the proportions are of either country regarding who’s awake and who’s asleep. In my nation (US), it’s growing, and approaching half the population, but we are still the minority, and our legislation is against us. The majority of the awake here in the US claim Christianity, and all religions are tolerated except that one. Soon it will be a lot easier to spot a real Christian, versus a fake one, in the United States, because for the first time, we’re about to have to pay a price for our faith. Re: politics, I fear what it would look like to wake up the other half of us. They may all be dead, or dying, from the injections by then. I see unique styles of housing being built up in my area that could be for housing refugees, or FEMA camps. I also wonder if the refugees get that housing, and those of us who resist masking, jabs and permitting pedophilia get sent to the FEMA prison expansions. Most in my nation do not realize they greatly expanded our prisons in the remote locations, at great expense, for nearly no reason. They remain empty, waiting for…?
Some here in the US put our hopes on the fact we never gave up our guns, and many in the UK urge us to keep them for the world’s sake. TBH, I don’t think we have enough armament to be a formidable militia when NATO boots hit the ground to enforce what they’ve been implementing stealthily all this time, but now work in plain sight, because they’re well enough established they don’t care to hide anymore. Soon every nation will see it, bald-faced, and realize it was happening under ALL our noses all along.
Yes—every nation, however you feel about the USA, and our imposter Vegetable-in-Chief and the sick corruption that goes so much deeper than you and I can imagine, or stomach, to hear about. BTW, “they’re” about to replace him with whomever they had in mind all along. He will fall — one last time— both literally and figuratively. His replacement won’t be Kamala. Hopefully, she will not take her life when she finds out they never intended it to be her. The Christians among us in the United States are praying that when her eyes are opened to the puppeteers she’s always been serving, she will turn to truth, redeem her lost years, and not give into despair.
I suspect Michelle Obama is waiting in the wings.
And those of us willing to physically fight, will. Interesting times.