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Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Plus he just banned his countrymen from returning home
He misses the Hawaiian breeze.
Jep they do the same in Syria, the Isis/Taliban foot soldiers are just the useful idiots. While the leaders are seeing their American bank accounts getting filled.
Why is Australia’s elite apparently so keen on a ‘kinetic’ war with China, when it would be catastrophic for their country?
06 May 2021
Many high-placed politicians, generals and journalists are ratcheting up tensions with insane talk of a military conflict with Beijing being ‘highly likely’. For the sake of world peace, they need to grow up and shut up.
There’s a “high likelihood” that a “kinetic” war between Australia and China could take place. That’s at least what Major-General Adam Findlay told his special forces troops last year in a confidential briefing now made public in the Australian media this week.
Though the general’s words were never intended to be public, they are now. As the old saying goes, you can’t take back words. Now everyone is aware of the Australian military establishment’s calculations, which are clearly a driving factor in the aggressive rhetoric that’s been coming from the country’s political establishment.
For example, Department of Home Affairs Secretary Michael Pezzullo recently stated what is an obvious fact on the country’s annual military commemoration day when he said that the “drums of war” are beating louder across Asia.
In an op-ed for THE AUSTRALIAN, PEZZULLO had presented an argument in favor of a war to defend “democracy” and “liberty,” insinuating, without mentioning names, that CHINA is a MORAL EQUIVALENT to NAZI GERMANY.
He wrote, “War may well be folly, but the greater folly is to wish away the curse by refusing to give it thought and attention, as if in so doing war may leave us be, forgetting us perhaps.”
Echoing a speech by former US Army general Douglas MacArthur, Pezzullo insisted such a war should not make one be considered a warmonger since such a war could be morally justified. But MacArthur, who was fired from his position as commander during the genocidal Korean War after recommending using some 34 nuclear weapons on Chinese and Korean territory, may not have been the best historical figure to echo here in making such an appeal to morality.
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COMMENTS at this RT article is also interesting to read.