He's a bit of a prick but he's not wrong. I wonder what Rudd would think were he not currently a diplomat.

Both were pretty clear-eyed about the opportunities of working with China and the futility of standing against them given the insignificance of Australia as anything but a weapons platform for the imperial machine of the USA.

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[–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (4 children)

sorry no im of the belief that despite the usa being a backwards country lead by a retard, Australia culturally is far similar and closer (some would argue we are too close) to america than china

china as mildly as you’ve made them seem is still an authoritarian dictatorship, if criticising dickfingers carried the same penalty as criticising jingping lemmy would have been deleted and we’d all be dead or in jail

in terms of invasion it depends on how we respond to the invasion of taiwan, if we send a strongly worded letter then i assume we’ll largely be spared, but if we get involved i don’t know how it ends

but i would never ever underestimate the worlds second strongest army with the worlds strongest by far manufacturing capacity

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    ah yes, vibes based geopolitical analysis

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    which part do you think is most vibes

    that we are culturally the same as americans

    that taiwan is likely to be attacked by china

    https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2026/08/24/fresh-off-major-defense-drills-taiwan-proposes-record-military-spending/

    maybe you should go tell the taiwanese to chill out?

    and how hard we are targeted depends on how deeply we get involved in the defence of taiwan?

    We’re not impervious, we have been hit before

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Darwin

    China is watching the russian invasion of ukraine and learning

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