Sept 22, 2021, 17:15
The unveiling last week of new Australia-UK-U.S. (AUKUS) trilateral military alliance prompted intense criticism across the world, including from those countries' French ally which just lost out on a AU$90-billion submarine deal with Canberra to London and Washington.
Many observers rightly remarked that AUKUS is aggressively meant to provoke China in the Asia-Pacific. They also drew attention to it showing just how unreliable the U.S. is as an ally that it would backstab France by negotiating this alliance in secret without its knowledge and then stealing what that country's media previously referred to as the "Contract of the Century."
There's another analytical layer to all of this as well though and it's that AUKUS confirms that the U.S. is practicing an imperialist policy. This isn't just rhetoric either but an objective reflection of the facts based on Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne's surprisingly candid revelation. According to the U.S. State Department's transcript of the press conference that she participated in alongside her American counterpart and their defense ministers, she said that the contemporary state of their alliance "is well suited to cooperate on countering economic coercion."
This very strongly implies that AUKUS is a military response to economic competition from China. One of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin's most famous works, "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism," theorizes that imperialist states employ military means in order to advance self-interested economic ends.
That's precisely what's happening with AUKUS, except their Chinese target isn't a fellow imperialist power like the other three countries, but is the world's leading anti-imperialist force. Nevertheless, the connection between imperialism, capitalism and militarism is still relevant.
To elaborate, China's peaceful rise over the past four decades challenges the West's monopolization of international relations and global economy. They fear that the Belt and Road Initiative's (BRI) no-strings-attached developmental model will become so attractive to other countries that the West will no longer be able to control them through financial means like they've hitherto done. Their zero-sum extractive models cannot realistically compete with China's mutually beneficial one on a fair playing field, which explains why they've resorted to waging an intense information and trade war against it over the second half of the last decade.
Those acts of unconventional aggression against China have failed to sway the world against China, which is why the West is now taking a page from Lenin's treatise on imperialism out of strategic desperation. Resorting to gunboat diplomacy through AUKUS' flagship project of outfitting Australia with a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines is the physical embodiment of imperialist aggression, while its theoretical manifestation is evidenced by this being predicated on purely self-interested economic motives, exactly as Lenin wrote. This policy isn't just doomed to fail, but going by historical precedent, it even risks provoking doom.
Lenin's famous work was influenced by World War I, which was the most destructive imperialist conflict up until that point. It was preceded by a massive military buildup, including gunboat diplomacy, all of which was driven primarily by economic motives despite nationalism being the war's direct spark.
The comparisons between then and now are ominous, especially after the Malaysian prime minister warned that AUKUS risks provoking a nuclear arms race in the region. This nuclear factor means that the U.S.'s efforts to economically contain China through AUKUS on nationalist pretexts are much more dangerous than the run-up to World War I.
The Western imperialist powers are once again risking a global conflagration in pursuit of their zero-sum economic interests, one which might also end in their destruction in the worst-case scenario that the unthinkable transpires. All peace-loving people of the world must urgently become aware of what's at stake since the historical parallels between the run-up to World War I and now are unmistakable.
AUKUS is the latest form of U.S. imperialist aggression against China, which is being waged for self-interested economic reasons as revealed by the Australian foreign minister herself who had no shame in boasting about this last week.
(From CGTN)
''The only regard the US Military Industrial Complex has is controlling the global wealth and keep on making devastating weapons to kill those who don't obey it. That in essence is what the US Military Industrial Complex is all about which dictates how US behaves.'' These notions are obviously contradicted by the realities of US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam.
USA is not in South China sea because it cares so much about Philippines Taiwan Hong Kong Vietnam or freedom and democracy or free elections
USA is there because of this:
IT IS IMPERATIVE that no EurAsian challenger emerges capable of dominating EurAsia and thus of also challenging USA.
~ Zbignew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's national security adviser
The Asia-Pacific region is now referred to as "Indo-Pacific", and before long, it would be known as "Anglo-Pacific" region.
For plain truths, pls read informative multi-pages 'Ole Fella' comment on YouTube at, "China-US tensions: A closer look at the 'Five-Eyes' intelligence partnership / CGTN": https://youtu.be/H6nkAVegk0g
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And here comes the bill for those 12 diesel submarins that France won't be supplying: "France to send Australia bill for 'brutal' £45bn submarine contract breach"
France isn't the only one who should be annoyed: Surprisingly, the US navy recently did the same to India, intruding into its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) without permission. The US regime’s 7th Fleet openly snubbed India, boasting that it “asserted navigational rights and freedoms…inside India’s exclusive economic zone, without requesting India’s prior consent…” The statement even called India’s maritime claims “excessive.”
- For the US, India is little more than a pawn to be deployed against China – not a nation to be respected on its own terms
Several years ago these skank even gave an indian diplomat a freakin' cavity search!!!!!!
France's submarines are all nuclear. So it was Auztralia which requested that they be re-engineered as diesel subs to comply with the NPT.
Obviously, doormat, Scott Morrison, was forced to switch to nukilar.
Now the auztralian taxsucker will have to pay the HUGE penalties for reneging on the contract with France.
All so that the Great Satan military/industrial complex can line their pockets.
It is quite clear that US' sole strategy is to apply global destructive measures to build its economic and political hegemony. More or less the same way how US was built from a territory in North America. On the surafce this effort is packaged and marketed as advancing human equaliity, democracy and freedom. In essence it is filled with various schemes of destruction including but is not limited to coloured revolutions, currency attacks, physical war etc., one just have compile US atrocities. The US Military Industrial Complex and through its paid employee, the Pentagon, is the core of the threat to the world.
If the entire US establishment can engineer an international lie to invade Iraq and then without basis occupied Afghanistan for 20 years, there is no reason why US cannot engineer another lie to spark a war to destabilize the region. The world should be conscious that the US' militay does not hold the same values as all other nations - as said in essence the Pentagon is just another deprtmental arm of US Military Industrial Complex, not a national institution like other countries. The decisions come from the US Military Industrial Complex, not the Pentagon and then it is packaged as a Pentagon's initiative. This is the only way the US Military Industrial Complex can mobilize nations that it wants as partners to go along with it. Otherwise there will be greater resistence to its ambitions. In essence the US Military Industrial Complex has no regards for many human lives in particular those of Asians, Africans and large parts of the 2 America continents. The only regard the US Military Industrial Complex has is controlling the global wealth and keep on making devastating weapons to kill those who don't obey it. That in essence is what the US Military Industrial Complex is all about which dictates how US behaves.
So it is really up to Australia's neighbours to decide if they want to fall for the arms race that will eventually lead to a war trap or they want a peaceful region. How they deal with Australia will decide whether enduring peace can be sustained or not. They should be mindful that Australia has an accepted policy of shooting harmless women and children as long as they are not Caucasians in Afghanistan. This is unmistakably ad solidly backed by the fact the same psychology was applied in how it treated its aborigines. Thus Asians should have not have any illusion that Australia is a civilized, educated and sane with moral nation.
The Aukus is the US' latest piece to construct by 2040 a multiple front to contain and wedge in China.
Militarizing Japan to the north, Taipei separatists at the doorstep, and Australia, Philippines and Guam from the south to south east, the US is using these fronts to hem in China's growing trade-protecting blue-ocean navy while trying to court arms-length Asean countries and autonomous India to bolster its western naval presence at Diego Garcia in the Indo-Pacific.
If of any inkling value, the US has failed elsewhere. Hong Kong SAR has recovered, Tibet has become progressive and prosperous. And Xinjiang revived remains a gateway to the BRI, the Mackinder Eurasian economic counterbalance to the Mahan naval power projection.
The world today is therefore manifesting tensions arising from:
US hegemonic politics versus Rest Of World economic recoveries;
Western social fractures versus Eastern communal unity; and
Anglophonic empire pretensions versus Asia's multilateral cooperation.
But history has made plain to all 8 Billion human beings on this planet ravaged by coronavirus and climate change that international economics must be prioritized above politics.
At the international level, people are tired of wars; they only want peace to sustain prosperity to build cooperative futures.
Yet the US continues to say China, the world's biggest supplier, buyer and trader with over 120 other trading nations, is a threat. But to who and what has she threatened that a talk over mild tea has not resolved?
The US says China is an autocracy. Is the US as a divided democracy doing better when its citizens no longer trust their own government whilst China's government has won overwhelming approval from hers?
The US says China will tarnish the west's way of life. But how has that happened if China citizens are the preferred customers of Western sellers, China enterprises have become the trusted partners of Western industries, and China students are welcomed by the best of Western universities, especially when not racially and politically discriminated as recent findings have exposed?
It seems the Western hegemons are merely afraid China will become more like them which is rather strange since they accuse her of not being enough like them.
So what exactly has China done to them that makes them see her as a threat to be contained at risk of their starting a kinetic conflict in Asia?
Their inconsistency is the only consistent feature they have displayed. Biden et al proclaimed they don't want to see the US-China situation descend to a conflict. Yet they have roped in Johnson and Morrison to point an Aukus nuclear trident on China. If anything, they are only irresponsibly tensing the temperature of Asian waters. And they hope by doing so, other Asian countries will be encouraged to join with them.
The biggest danger now is the US politicians cannot be trusted from its top honcho all the way down. They have become pathological liars with schizophrenic signs outcome from harboring overweening hubris.
The Nato supporters of the US' unilateral campaign against former US ally the Talibans were not told Biden would be double-quick pulling out his troops, even overnight from its Bagram airbase. On asked why, the answer was classic: 'So what, if told in advance, they would have objected anyway'. But there were more Nato troops than US troops there at that time; they were therefore being risked in the open while the US troops were being whisked away silently. It seems a US life is worth more than the life of any other nationality, including allies.
Moreover, it is not just the world no longer believing what the US is saying. It is also the fact the US is saying things without coherent long-term thinking in the interest of a sustainable common future for all.
If anything, everything it has said and done for as long as can be heard and seen has been ultimately concluded as solely for its primal interest sweetened by the empty lexicon of its western journalists.
If this is not so, ask yourself: why has it stocked so much expiring vaccines that could have been released to save the dying peoples of Emerging Nations in Asia, India, Middle East, Africa and Latin America? That's indirect genocide by omission, by any name.
If this is not so, why did Harris, Blinken, Campbell, Austin and others not offer anything on economic uplifting for the same Emerging Nations but only war drills failing which sanctions?
Today, the US is the world's sole rogue power, and is all the more dangerous for having a juddering steering wheel on its foreign and domestic policies which in turn emboldens its politicians to desperately tap its warlike tendencies in order to deflect their voter attention from poor governing and so try to salvage their time-dwindling relevance before the next pony show election.
Surely, the Europeans as an older cohort than the US have seen all this. And certainly, they must be aware by now the US' exodus from Afghanistan is enabling Iran and Pakistan together with China and Russia to help that impoverished state under Taliban rule. Iran in particular hails from the Persian Empire and the Talibans' Pashtuns carry Iranian DNA.
Therefore, while the US and its two bell-hops the UK and Australia are toying with their return to Asia on some white-man's imperial pomp and swagger, the emerging nations are converging to reincarnate the great Eurasian mass continent as the new BRI-connected trading hub of the 21st century. In one room, mischief-makers wearing no clothes; in the other room, hardworking peoples of all ethnicities stitching garments using Xinjiang fine cotton.
Meanwhile, the US mischief-makers and their organ-grinding monkeys are still cranking out the same broken tune on China as a threat to the world. But are they talking about that China, the one with the Yongle Dadian, 23,000 scrolls in 11,000 volumes with 370 million characters written in five years by 2,000 scholars, or the other China, the one whose Universal Studios Beijing preview opening sold out all 10,000 tickets in 3 minutes?
The Europeans should wake up, get off their butts and make CAI an immediate reality to complement China's application to the CPTPP on the back of the RCEP, all of which signalling China's reforms that they had wished for have gained momentum to create a bigger consumer market now to be enlarged further with new developments in Eurasia. Or do they want to only sell marine paint for the anglo-phonies' navies rusting in salty Indo-Pacific?
Unless pretending otherwise to themselves, the Europeans would have long noted by now that China is completely consistent in what she says and does. By any measure, that's brave and laudable statesmanship and integrity, not the chameleon shenanigans of some others.
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In Which Auztralian Territory is Boondoggle Located?
The answer now, is all of them! After two decades of booming growth fueled by trade with China, it was just a matter of time before the Great Satan's Eye of Sauron took notice of what a ripe fruit it was.
Another cost will be the maintenance of nukilar subs which Auztralia has no facilities for and which will magically and inexorably rise in cost in an out-of-control manner.
Convicted war criminal, Tony Blair, was also the Great Satan's poodle. He bought helicopters but the Great Satan refused to sell the s**tware so they just gathered dust. He bought tens of millions of doses of Rummyflu which were "handed out like Smarties" for Swine Flu and Bird Flu and by quacks who sometimes didn't even see the patient in person, whilst parents warned others not to let their kids be poisoned with it. He bought Prozac and then dumped it into the water supply and when caught, claimed it must have been urinated out by users. But that would mean they were recycling sewage as drinking water. Meanwhile the Great Satan reneged on a $21bn contract for Rolls-Royce engines.
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