Australia might as well petition to become the 51st state. Come to think of it, some of the existing states show more spine towards the federal government than Australia does. From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinejohnstone.com:
Two different news stories about US-Australian relations have broken at around the same time, and together they sum up the story of US-Australian relations as a whole.
Two different news stories about US-Australian relations have broken at around the same time, and together they sum up the story of US-Australian relations as a whole. In one we learn that Australia has agreed to manufacture missiles for the United States, and in the other we learn that Washington has told Australia to go suck eggs about its concerns regarding the US persecution of Australian journalist Julian Assange.
The relationship between Australia and the United States is all the more clearly illustrated by the way they are being reported by Australia’s embarrassingly sycophantic mainstream press.
In a Sydney Morning Herald article published Friday titled “‘Hugely significant’: Australia to manufacture and export missiles to US,” the US-educated war propagandist Matthew Knott exuberantly reports on the latest development on Australia’s total absorption into the American war machine.
“Australia is set to begin manufacturing its own missiles within two years under an ambitious plan that will allow the country to supply guided weapons to the United States and possibly export them to other nations,” Knott reports,” adding that the “joint missile manufacturing effort is being driven by the war in Ukraine, which has highlighted a troubling lack of ammunition stocks in Western nations including the US.”
The Australians should tell Blinken, ‘Until Julien Assange is free on Australian soil, not one missile will be made.
The 52nd state after the Ukraine.
GAE loves a good rump, vassal.