Want regional security? Repel the delusions of Dutton, and develop an Australia-China-US treaty.

Some local journalist-commentators are painfully aware of the degree of stupidity associated with our nations' 'leaders' unfailing servility to the interests of the US military industrial complex and military economy.

If there were ever a geopolitical and geoeconomic system that exhibits deleterious feedback loops (threatening the equivalent/analogue of overflow in an industrial control system): the US military industrial and business machine is it.

We could easily diffuse much of this hazardous set of dynamics by being smarter about our relationships with both China and the US. Working with both powers more effectively on our soil would avail us of leverage with each that we could easily manipulate - with strength and consideration - in order to optimise our local and national outcomes and security.

No South-East Asian nation that does not like the fact that we want nuclear powered submarines will dare interfere with an Australia with both Chinese and US bases. Such is an eminently workable solution that only requires appropriate strength and fair-minded consideration, and some subtlety, to be demonstrated in working with each superpower. It could be underpinned by a truly useful treaty. (ACUS?, since acronyms seem to be inappropriately important?)

For a start - when one of them complains that the other is a threat of some kind, we politely require them to exercise calm, and respect our local sovereignty and judgement. If a first-world nation like Australia cannot summon the resources to mediate such a relationship effectively, then we have much bigger problems than any alleged threat to Taiwan's alleged democracy.

The UK can play too. If they do as they're told. (I refuse to proffer an acronym on general principle.)

Mediation, and moderating influence, is exactly what is required in response to the US war machine. The US MIC and its accompanying geoeconomic influence are so dangerous as an unstable geopolitical-geostrategic system that recently the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - Mark Milley - was forced to make a call to the CPC leadership to ward off potential disaster. I very much doubt that this is what the denizens of the US intelligence community and military might call a 'brain fart' on Milley's part. Very much the opposite, in all likelihood.

This in a nation where the constitution has long since enshrined the ineffable primacy of their Congress over the military in terms of command and control structures. A soldier had to step up and display sense and sensibility, and sound mental faculties.

Andrew Hastie should perhaps take notes?

In Australia Peter Dutton's, and Andrew Hastie's, formulaic moves, and Hollywood-like rhetoric, suggest that, much like Morrison, the power they have is not mediated, nor moderated, by appropriate intellectual firepower an psychological stability. Their behaviour is a caricatured reflection of, and a servile expression of sycophancy to, the US MIC and its overarching geoeconomic feedback system.

In real, demonstrable terms - Hastie and Dutton are a true demonstration of inappropriate foreign influence. Dutton still seems to be behaving as a tactical-careerist public-servant-cum-politician. The public service element - what there is of it - is apparently only a means to an end. He's following a set of simple-to-grasp imperatives that he likely perceives as aligned with his personal goals, with various mates-network benefits, and with certain prevailing cultural narratives, which latter he is probably not even appropriately critically aware of. Much like what happens all the time in large public service bureaus of various kinds.

These likely motives of Dutton's are certainly similiar in form to Morrison's multiply-demonstrated modi operandii, but in Morrison's case there's also a heaping helping of megacult delusion about the overarching imperatives of imaginary imperial friends. What a psychological - and subsequently political - mess.

Dutton's political goals and 'strategies' seem consistently to be first and foremost aligned with these kinds of self-optimising and self-aggrandising motives and imperatives. Otherwise the - at best - cavalier attitude he displays toward pre-escalation of potential conflict with China is inexplicable except on the basis of some kind of madness. When these politicos band together (wearing ties) and follow the path of perceived least resistance on a careerist basis, it becomes clear quickly, and their days are numbered. It should be obvious to many Australians by now that, whether they like China or not: China is not interested in hurting us. Moreover, that the real - and only real - beneficiaries of a war with China are military industrial businesses or missile shops.

Even the poor street fascist has to grasp this, and realise that it is their military age children that would have to do the dirty work in case of a pointless war with China (involving quite a lot of dying and PTSD, or perhaps a lot of PTSD then suicides.)

I am sure that many in the military-industrial boyscout brigade - who may or may not have family who own shares in Raytheon - think that they can ensure that no conflict with China occurs or escalates out of control. But that's clearly an astronomically egotistical and arrogant flight of fancy. Just as likely - they don't care if something does go wrong, because there is something deeply wrong with them and they need psychiatric assessment.

Perhaps it is because they chant the mantra 'surround and contain' so much that they have come to believe it has some kind of magical (supernatural?) power? I think that Dutton has just as little geopolitical sense and sensibility as Morrison, and is probably just as delusional - albeit in a different manner and with different fantasy content. Dutton and Morrison are clearly often just doing whatever nepotistic actions they perceive are required to benefit their Lodge and Church megacult buddies respectively.

It should be clear even to teenage and early twenty-something Australians (who should follow their intuition on the matter before they consider listening to Scott Morrison or Peter Dutton) that Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton, Mike Pezzulo, and Andrew Hastie are not cool heads. Moreover - they are not doing a very good job of being basically sensible.

They're variously Christofascist and parareligious megacultist boyscouts who must certainly have - in many cases - very real psychological and emotional problems. People who think that the CPC are evil threat because the CPC don't believe in the right imaginary friend cannot be trusted with national security. Such dispositions are quintessentially psychologically unbalanced. There are more than enough variables and parameters to account for without factoring-in arcane, archaic megacultist fictions and nonsense as if they reflected reality.

A strong and sensible politician could make US and Chinese bases work at the same time, and in doing so could shore-up regional security, muzzle Islamic megacultists in Indonesia and Malaysia, and provide a secure environment for a nuclear power industry, thus solving coal-industry emissions problems and domestic power supply problems in one fell swoop (not to mention fostering unprecedented levels of collaborative tech research).

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