 New defense review further enslave Australia to US war agendas The Australian government has released for the declassified version of its highly anticipated 2023 defense strategic review DSR and the war Propagandists are delighted Sydney Morning Herald's Matthew not most well known for being told by former Prime Minister Paul Keating to do the right thing and drum yourself out of Australian journalism over his role in nine entertainment's despicable red alert war with China propaganda series Has a new propaganda piece out titled defense review pulls no punches China the biggest threat we face Here are the first few paragraphs to give you a sense of the squealing glee these swamp monsters are experiencing right now quote Angus Houston and Steven Smith have delivered a blaring wake-up call to any Australians who think they still live in a Sanctuary of safety at the southern edge of the earth you're living in the past To those inside and outside the Australian Defense Force who think business as usual will cut it in the future Your delusional their message to anyone confused about the biggest threat to Australia's national security is similarly blunt It is our largest trading partner China Like a pair of doctors delivering confronting news to an ill patient the two men tasked with Reshaping Australia's military for the 21st century have opted for admirable candor at their defense strategic review Rejecting vague language about rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific the former defense chief and defense minister call out just one nation China for threatening Australia's core interests and quote Like a pair of doctors he says That's the kind of third-rate propaganda we get in the nation with the most consolidated media ownership in the Western world The defense review quote defense Focuses not on defending the shores of the continent of Australia But instead over and over again makes mention of the need to protect the rules-based order in Australia's region the so-called Indo-Pacific which includes China it is for the most part a hundred and ten pages of mental Contortions explaining why defending the nation of Australia is going to have to look a whole lot like preparing to pick a fight with an Asian nation thousands of kilometers away The public DSR actually only mentions China by name eight times though by knots ecstatic revelry You'd assume that was the only word it contains in Contrast the document mentions the United States no fewer than 38 times with the United Kingdom getting two mentions New Zealand getting only one and Australia's neighbors like Papua New Guinea and Indonesia not getting mentioned at all Our alliance with the United States will remain central to Australia's security and strategy the review reads The United States will become even more important in the coming decades Defense should pursue greater advanced scientific technological and industrial cooperation in the alliance as well as increased United States rotational force posture in Australia including with submarines The overshadowing presence of the United States in a document that is ostensibly about Australian security interests would be Confusing if you did not know that Australia has for generations Served as a US military and intelligence asset where our nation's interests are so subordinated to Washingtons that we're not even allowed to know if the US is bringing nuclear weapons into our country In a foreshadowing of the DSR's pledge to pursue even greater cooperation with the US last year Australia's Secretary of Defense Richard Marles said that the Australian Defense Force is moving quote beyond interoperability to interchange ability with the US military so that they can operate seamlessly together at speed Which is a fancy way of saying that any meaningful separation between the Australian military and the American military Has been effectively dissolved Marles who is currently facing scrutiny in Australia for being illicitly Secretive about the nature of a free golf trip he went on in his last trip to the United States Has said that the DSR will underpin our defense policy for decades to come Even some of the implementation of the DSR's findings will be overseen by an american not an australian ABC reports that a major component to determine the future shape of australia's naval fleet Will be decided later this year in a short sharp review to be led by us navy vice admirable william h hillarieds The review itself has been tainted with severe conflicts of interest with regard to us influence As mac williams noted in pearls and irritations earlier this month The senior advisor and principal author behind the review is a man named peter dean A professor and director of foreign policy and defense at the united states studies center ussc At the university of sydney the ussc receives funding from the us government And dean's own cv boasts that he quote currently leads to us state department funded public diplomacy programs on the us australia alliance So to recap australia's foreign policy is being shaped for decades to come by a quote independent strategic review that a Was authored by someone who is compromised by us funding Me is being implemented in part by an american former military official C calls for greater and greater cooperation with united states across the board And d focuses primarily on targeting a nation that just so happens to be the number one geopolitical rival of the united states It is hilarious, then That prime minister anthony albinese announced the release of the dsr by proclaiming that at its core All of this is making australia more self-reliant more prepared and more secure in the years ahead It is funnier still that he concluded that same speech with an anzac day acknowledgement of australian troops who have died in wars quote To defend our sovereignty and our freedom It doesn't get any less self-reliant and sovereign than just handing over your nation's military to a more powerful nation with a There you go, mate. Use our every reckons fair You really could not come up with a more egregious abdication of national sovereignty if you tried And yet our prime minister babbles about sovereignty and self-reliance while doing exactly that Just annex us and make us the 51st state already. At least that way we get a pretend vote in america's fake elections