From its foundation, Australia has been a vassal state.

After the first 120 years of imposed colonial vassaldom, then another 40 years of vassaldom to the UK by choice, Australians naturally transferred submission to the US, where it has remained to this day.

In the current environment, while it’s tempting to imagine Canada and Australia are in the same circumstantial boat, culturally we’re not only not in the same boat, but metaphorically - and nevermind literally - we’re not even in the same ocean.

Can anyone imagine an Australian prime minister standing up to a US president - even one as big of a dumbc~nt as Trump - the way Trudeau and Carney have? Can anyone imagine an Australian state premier also standing up to him in the way Canadian premiers have?

Of course not.

Both Albanese and Dutton will instinctively slink around on all fours, hoping to stay out of the full glare of a US president, and lick his arsehole and boots in the hope he’ll like us enough to leave Australia alone.

And pay any shakedown money he demands of Australians.

Easy for Canadians as they are on the same continent. And they surround other US states & territories.

We're pretty isolated - have the most populous Islamic state just to our North & a bit further China.

Who just flexed their military muscle at us a week or so ago.

Deal or no deal - I'd rather cast our hat in with the Yanks than the Chinese.

The notion that Australia must consider itself permanently isolated and weak flies in the face of the geopolitical reality immediately after the unconditional surrender of Japan in 1945.

Japan was crushed, Indonesia was still a Dutch colony, South East Asia, including Singapore, was nothing other than colonial outposts of Britain and France, and India was a basket case soon to be starting from nothing as an independent nation...

The only nations virtually untouched in the region were Australia and New Zealand - almost as untouched as the US and Canada.

Why was Australia ostensibly not in a prime position to seize the day and begin to establish itself as a regional hegemon - long before the world even spoke of China and Southeast Asian nations as anything other than the world's 'sick men'?

I was thinking more of the delusion of division of actual power in this nation which implies that those not of one's group must somehow be vassals to be dictated to at whim...

That's where you real problems lie.

Too many people here with not much upstairs and not much ticker wanting to run the show - giving full merit to the old adage that he who seeks power is generally the last on you would want to hold it.

Most people are content to just graze along and earn a fair living and have a fair and reasonable life - there's always some arsehole out there with a mental delusion who imagines their way MUST be forced on all others.  They range from the top capitalists, rabid rightists and so forth all the way across the spectrum to the top communists, lunatic leftists etc... and every shade in between.

The very fact that we live in such a convict colony derivation damaged society means there are countless people who feel, rightly or wrongly, that they have been 'short-changed' - and often they are right... where they are wrong is in trying to 'balance it out' by short-changing others in turn and thus perpetuating the real problems - look at feminised Labor these days and its madcap ideas.. at least Duttoncorp is happy to return us to wage slavery again under the direct diktat of Der Fuhrerboss ...... lick his/her balls or you are banished to the poverty gulag for life... and women are the worst at it given their sense of entitlement born and bred and their constantly being told they are STILL short-changed!!  FFS!!!

Well - you know what I say to them all?  We, the People - are coming... and hell is coming with us!  And if that returns you to the Hand Maiden's Tale - then join the Hand Men already shoved there, you dickheads.  Schoolyard politics elevated to the national scale is all it is... you retards.

If only those People would just stay awake long enough to actually hold on to what they know is/was wrong this time around.... and vote the bloody lot out.

The US warned Australia off becoming a regional hegemony - not one that would threaten US world hegemony nor its arrogation of de facto sole and supreme leadership of Western civilisation to itself - something that would have been eminently possible immediately after WW2.

However, such a status would have endowed Australia with enough independence to forge its own unique foreign policy in pre- and post-emerging Asia, something that the fledgling neo-imperial US would not tolerate.

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The Governor-Generals serve Great Britain
The Prime Ministers serve the USA
The people serve Aboriginaldom

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