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Cake day: September 12th, 2023

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  • While I’m strongly in favour of Ukraine getting all the weapons and much more help, looking to Australia to do more is a bit unrealistic.

    Australia has a massive problem with China’s money buying influence right on its doorstep, island nations on their doorstep are being wooed with money to corrupt leaders and infrastructure projects with hidden shackles. It doesn’t have the deep pockets of the US or Germany, and it has both a massive naval area to protect, as well as the expectation of assisting defence of allied micro nations.

    As an analogy it would be like asking Poland to send assistance to Taiwan at a time that Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and the Baltics were being wooed (with an implied threat under the covers) by Russia.

    Yes, China is helping Russia threaten them, but sending assistance to Taiwan won’t fix the problem

    Now turn it around, substitute Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, PNG for Czechia etc and reverse the roles of China & Russia

    I’m glad Australia is doing some, but given they’re not a major military power nor manufacturer, places like South Korea would be a better place to leverage






  • That’s a weird headline.

    Firstly a Pole can’t confidently state whether Russia will or won’t do something, it’s not in their control. Secondly the gap is exactly where everyone has expected Russia to play shenanigans for decades.

    So yeah, “Polish General expects Russia to escalate their provocations around the Sulwaki Gap” would be a better headline