American MIC Go Home!

- Dr Bruce Long

Most Australians, including myself, would agree that the US is welcome in Australia as a trading, geoeconomic, diplomatic, and cultural-civilisational partner and influence. However, the US MIC and any illicit influence over our politics and government policy - and especially over our military - is not welcome, and especially unwelcome is the US mission to harass China over Tawain. Uncle Sam is welcome, but his deranged alter-ego can stay home.

Bob Hawke famously embraced the US - and the CIA - in his effort to ward off the stranglehold influence of the UK and The Crown, which held, and still hold, ridiculous amounts of sway over our entire government and judicial system. Now we are faced with the problem of AUKUS, which threatens to open us to new and unprecedented levels foreign influence and interference.

Apparently - thanks to savvy investigation by Four Corners investigative journalists Grigg, Robinson, and Ball, we now know that US nuclear bombers will be deployed to Northern Australia. Of course, that assertion about journalistic prowess is based somewhat on the proviso that it's not all part of a propagandist psyop and that the US DoD didn't send the documents to Four Corners via intermediaries as part of a planned, phased public release of intelligence.

Too cynical? Too paranoid?

Well at the end of the program Grigg does use the phrase "drums of war" and they let doddering Cold War veteran Paul Dibb run his mouth about impending doom and non-theoretic threats.

All of those considerations notwithstanding - there's not a shadow of a doubt that I wasn't asked about US nuclear bombers in the Northern Territory, that you weren't asked, and that our Parliament was not able to vote on the outcome (and that - presumably - they weren't asked either). Australia's War Powers are a shambles, and - because of the influence of the UK and Crown and the exclusion of our Parliament - make an absolute joke of any sovereignty we may encourage ourselves we have.

Moreover, we have the long-running program of foreign influence and interference in the form of 'brink' tanks like ASPI as a standing example of how easy it is for our foreign influence and interference laws to be trammeled.

The American Marine Colonel interviewed in this Four Corners special while on exercises in Northern Australia is a #Christian megacult mental patient. He's exactly the kind of person you should not give guns too. Or power tools. In fact keep him away from anything sharp. He quotes his bizarre sacred text immediately, then makes reference to the Christian megacult invocation against worry. Go home, religious schizophrenic.

Orianna Mastro (@osmastro) - a brink-tank commentator from Stanford - was rolled out next. Mastro's a blatant propagandist and liar, but mostly a pretentious, presumptuous US hegemonist who either does not understand that Australians like myself not only do not care about US dominance in the SCS and region near it, but that we can see that her reasons for trying to coerce and cajole us to join the harassment of China are based on ulterior motives. Those motives have little to nothing to do with what she claims about China as being some kind of global or wide-regional threat.

Dibb's ranting notwithstanding, China is certainly not any immediate or direct threat to Australia militarily. The only reason that would have changed is because some idiot decided to put US nuclear bombers here, and a bunch of other child-minded, cynical idiots can't help 'banging the drums of war'.

If China invades Taiwan it will not remotely adversely affect me, my children, or any other Australian that does not have expensive business interests in Taiwan. It's a rude and offensive deception for Mastro and her league of extraordinary drum-bangers to assert otherwise, and I deeply resent it. So, I humbly submit, should you.

So what if #China can 'project [geostrategic and geoeconomic] power farther out into the second island chain in the Western Pacific'? It doesn't bother me at all. There is no sign that #China intends ANY kind of military aggression in these areas beyond Taiwan, and there is every sign that China is only interested in their rogue province of #Taiwan.

Of course Taiwan is a massive technology park and potential FOB and listening post for the US very close to Beijing, and so the US has plenty of motive to try to make us believe otherwise. Especially since they keep whining that they cannot compete with China doing freemarket capitalism. They can't compete, so they want to cheat?

Oh dear.

When people like Mastro saber-rattle and portray #China as aggressor - or as the initial/only aggressor - and blow the threat of aggression out of proportion completely in terms of scope and commitment - they're less speculating than baldly lying, and I don't appreciate it. At all.

To be frank and to ensure Mastro and all such warmongers comprehend it: she can stick her propagandist rhetoric where the sun doesn't shine. Especially since the lies, propaganda, and war-mongering of people like her and idiot Mike Pezzullo - with his child-minded, cynical, insulting 'drums of war' rhetoric - are what really place the region's stability in danger.

Does Mastro and her family own shares in MIC companies? I would not be surprised, and this should be investigated.

As for Paul Dibb - he is a doddering agent of British and American interference and influence, and simply cannot, and should not, be taken seriously by anyone interested in our collective peace and prosperity. It's almost like the irresponsible retiree is bored and wants a war with China as some kind of exciting culmination to his career. Someone should have Dibb's psychological health checked to ensure he is not a delusional Christian megacultist and religious schizophrenic with imaginary friend and comorbid paranoid and grandiose delusions about fictional beings. He should have his shareholdings audited to determine if he owns shares in Raytheon, Thales, McDonnell-Douglass, or any other MIC based business.

As for Pine Gap being a nuclear target of China in the event of conflict: I have already numerously and repeatedly proffered a solution. Allow China to a base (space base) in Australia too, and dial down the 'drums of war' idiocy to zero.

Conflict with China over Taiwan's repatriation/separatism is NOT my business, and it's not the Australian military's business, and we shouldn't be led into it by cynical rich Americans who don't really care about freedom and democracy (except where it profits their families), nor by military industrial profiteers, nor bent Christofascist-dominionist ideologues with bizarre, delusional, and racist beliefs. Nor should we be led into conflict by Christian-megacultist, misatheist idiots with imaginary friends that hate atheist Han and CPC and harbour a bizarre, misatheist, atavistic, delusional infideliphobia in general.

From a psychological perspective, Mastro's speech, body language, facial expressions and paralinguistic cues indicated that she is a careerist that thinks the situation is some kind of game. She is exactly the kind of person that should be sent to the front of the front line in any conflict. Then we will see how much half-smirking the bloodthirsty propagandist does.

Victor Gao - the only Chinese voice available in the Four Corners episode - may not be pretty as a commentator, and he does use very frank rhetoric that sounds overbearing. But appearances are not everything. His tone is more urgent and earnest than overbearing. It's an appeal to reason Mastro is not my friend, and not our friend. She wants to use her friends in an unecessary meat grinder to advance the interests of US hegemony and special interests.

Gao is much closer to a friend. He is simply urging us towards reasonability and away from a dangerous conflict that he knows is not ours, and that we are being - excuse the expression - Shanghaied into by the US. When Victor Gao says that Taiwan is not our problem and we should not even think about sending our children to fight there, he speaks the truth and with decency and concern (and not a little apparent exasperation at having to restate the obvious).

Australians not much older than me will remember exactly the kind of rhetoric used by Mastro from the runup to the Vietnam War - the culmination of decades of batshit crazy carpet bombing of Asian villages caused by even more batshit crazy McCarthyism, racism, and yellow-perilist, reds-under-beds misatheism.

Go home US MIC. Go home, deadly alter-ego of Uncle Sam.

(Didn't Uncle Sam have something to do with barrels of butchered meat?)

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