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Australia’s defence minister Richard Marles has joined in solidarity with counterpart Pete Hegseth’s USA warmongering speech against China.

I guess we’ve got to show China what we’re going to do with it if it were to attack Taiwan? “Peace through strength“, eh Richard?

We’re just being tough, right? We’re not really angling for WWIII?

While I prefer diplomacy to chest-thumping and threats, perhaps China has become a handy scapegoat for the USA’s increasing socio-economic troubles. You know: “Look over there!“

Sounds remarkably like the British Empire facing off against Germany in the early 20th Century. All that hubris eventuated in WWI. There was no way out of the warlike atmosphere that had been created.

Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.