Comment on Explosions heard, low-flying aircraft seen over Venezuela's capital
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 6 days agoYou really need to learn how international norms and laws have helped protect Australia. The problem here isn’t getting rid of a dictator, the problem here is the precedent this sets. The US just made every one of their allies much less safe in this world, at a time when they’re pulling back from their commitments as allies.
Question you have to ask yourself now,
What stops China from coming and lopping off the Pilbara? The only thing now is raw power, of which, we only have a little. So is the US going to come to support Aus, can we still count on them? If you look at their behaviour around Ukraine, it seems their ‘friendship’ is pretty bloody fragile these days.
What about Taiwan now? Or some of the Japanese islands? How do you think those putative allies are feeling about this?
You want to set a precedent of our times? This just did.
Look at my comment history from yesterday, i wrote a long comment response that goes into the new geopolitical threat this country and the world now faces.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Venezuela was not a nice place and definitely not one of the good guys
Our alliances and defence capabilities, that’s how it is, that’s how it has always been
that’s the primary reason we’re spending billions on AUKUS and coincidentally Japan wants in as well
japantimes.co.jp/…/japan-role-in-us-uk-australia-…
same with Taiwan, they have the:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_shield
Which they’ve been building for decades
It’s why for years we have been the US’s lapdog going into wars we never would have because we rely on them for protection
It’s why we have spent trillions over the previous decades on defence
This is why when I see things like
m.youtube.com/watch?v=m2GH5A1XDCA
i facepalm, you can’t fend off an invasion with twitter posts
it’s why i want a much much stronger alliance with europe, its why i want a far stronger alliance with ukraine, its why i want us to have drone factories making millions of drones and having the spare capacity to send them to ukraine
This idea of rules based order hasn’t been true for a long time, if ever, there was like most of the 20th century a unique set of circumstances as china was in its century of humiliation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation
and the united states is not nearly as bad as any of the nutter states iran/most of africa/most of middle east if they had the same technological capacity and capability and the UN got to pretend it had power
nothing has changed overall from what i can see in terms of might makes right, just who america is targeting and the fact china is returning to its previous former glory as the worlds super power
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Rules based order allowed you to live a fairly peaceful life up until now. You’re going to need to change your opinion on the usefulness of soft power, and diplomacy. It would helpbyou understand the world better knowing what precedence means and its effects in human behavioural terms on the singular level and the macro level.
Most of Africa? Theres that racism on display again. You may as well call them shithole countries. Or shall we call them the bad guys, and then we can call the god guys to sort em out like we’re in childs story. Bad guys dobthis, good guys blow em up!
Its a childish view of the world. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Doubt
Do you know anything about Africa? Maybe pay attention to it for 5 minutes and then tell me how amazing it is, my focus on the Sahel right now which is currently being attacked by
violent islamic jihadistspeople on the dailyWe have done plenty of work in Africa, for example France supporting Mali’s government by killing a group of violent
muslimspeople:www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT5U-JQ8Puw
But as you’d know:
It’s almost like countries don’t mind when someone comes to help out
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Yeah, like I don’t know about Africa. Welcome to the Sahel, you’re about two decades late to the party.
Wait, who’re the goodies and baddies! I think we’re gonna to implement some sort of cape system. Black as night, for the goodies, pink with gold sequins for the baddies.