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The Neoliberals have such a hard on for war right now it’s like they’re newly enrolled born again acolytes of the rapture. Not sure how these talking points are being disseminated globally with such cohesion but that’s maybe the most alarming part. How organized this propaganda for war-annihilation has become globally across many governments and their “news” organizations. People in small town Canada are even starting to parrot these talking points like a China-vasion is warming up on the tarmac as we speak. It’s beyond ridiculous

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just call them what they are - a nuclear war death cult. and they're insulting the average Australians' intelligence

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This is utter madness for you in Australia and us in the UK. When will our countries stop and so no to the tyrannical behavior of the US.

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Picking a fight with China is a Terrible Idea. ALl they need to do is send a single sub to sneak around the coast, fire a cruise missile at Gas hubs along the way, and Oz is crippled.

As a bonus, fuel depots in the major cities would cause immediate havoc.

It is very easy to take Oz off the Board in hot fight.

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"We must be ready to go to war. Otherwise, we won't be a good lackey!"

Notice that asking "why do we need to go to war?" and "why are we trying to be The Best Little Lackey Ever?" are questions that you are not supposed to ask, the equivalent of farting in church.

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Australians don't need a "psychological shift" in the public's attitude toward war with China unless it's to shift it toward a peace-loving and pacifistic attitude. You are so right to raise the alarm, Caitlin. The propaganda machine is going full tilt and won't stop until it gets every Aussie screaming for (Red, of course) Chinese blood. It's time to stand up to your colonizers, the US and the UK, and tell them where to shove their nuclear missiles! We need world peace not war!

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From early on in reading this I was thinking "CIA" infiltration! Sure enough farther down what did we find "a coup"! I seriously hope you are not that lone soldier Caitlin because if people in Australia buy this insanity there truly is no hope for us left!

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Yet again we can directly trace this manipulation and skulduggery back to American Imperialism. Not only is Amerika unable to pay back its interest on the vast loans it owes China it is unlikely to be able to do so even with its profiteering side hustle, the proxy war in the Ukraine it remains broke.

The Amerikan Defence Complex as we all know is the USA’s biggest cash cow. As we speak a railway manufacturing plant closed for 70 years has reopened to produce Artillery casings around the clock. Some 10k rounds being shipped to the Ukraine to be fired off haphazardly without spotter planes or units, senselessly tearing the country up. Well follow the destruction and you will find US vultures waiting in the wings to charge BIllions rebuilding.

Back on track, the US not only wants to, but needs to go to war with China. It’s facing bankruptcy even printing money beyond any ability to underwrite it. By going to war with China, debts are written off, cash cow in full production and a population cull as well. Taiwan is just an excuse. It used to be part of China and is now independent.

As Caitlin mentioned the ring of steel around China in the form of American Garrisons is truly all telling plus the vassal state of Japan has been mobilised building attack units for the first time since wwII in the form of super Helicopter Carriers. That drags them in. The American bases, especially nuclear assets across the country make no doubt that Australia will be in the front firing line.

The US/U.K./Aus Naval Pacific Rim Treaty of last year states one attacked all attacked protocol. I hope people aren’t relying on U.K. naval support too much as of the two brand new carriers, one failed sea trials and returned to port. The other is afloat in the med somewhere but actually has zero aircraft aboard. Since disbanding the Harrier no replacement has been made and the only go to option is the inferior F35 carrier variant. But it drags the U.K. in again as the Us poodle in a lame attempt to give its expansion plans international backing and legitimacy.

Meanwhile the Chinese have launched the most advanced nuclear carrier in the world and its soldiers rated No1 in the independent Janes military manual. Now I know that will bruise more than a few USA number 1 egos but it’s the truth. Chinese military is not going to be the duck shoot slaughter of the Imperial Guard in Iraq.

I have maintained my sons dual British.Irish nationality to remain a European but also to avoid this being drafted in what could easily slip into WWIII

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My ever-returning thought is - how this madness can be stopped?

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Mar 8, 2023·edited Mar 8, 2023

I live in the states, but only just one, so if I understand this, should China decide to attack Taiwan which could precipitate a nuclear war, and not to negate the possibility that Russia and America already had one, Australia thinks it can help by building up it's military bases and weapons? Not to disappoint, but better you should spend your money elsewhere.

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According to Mark Whitney, globalresearch.ca, China has initiated 0 (zero!) wars in the last 70 years. The U.S. initiated 200! Dr. Helen Caldicott explains what a nuclear would look like, in her 25 min. talk to college students: helencaldicott.com (if www, http or anything comes up, retype the link by itself).

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..so amazing, how 'humans'(?) buy IQ36 ''reasons '' to go into a war to defend psychopathic parasitic ''elite''... greeks, romans, and on and on..... up to day!.....same IQ36 reasons!...

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It is sad how our US militarism has spread across the globe like a cancer. I foresee nothing good will come of it.

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This ain't gonna be like that movie where everyone in Oz waits around for the nuclear fallout to reach. Nope you're gonna be ground zero this time. G'luck eh!!

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The stage is getting set.

Have fun getting this generation to fight any war. The life expectancy of a Ukrainian soldier right now is 4 hours. Arrive at eight, dead by noon or sooner.

This isn't a video game. At least when we were kids we ran and played this outside. The brutal violence and mental and physical effort it takes to fight a war is beyond imagination.

It appears we will get the depopulation.

Let's see if the soy generation has the nads to stop this insanity before it starts or will they march off to the meat grinder.

Life expectancy in the Russian Ukraine war is less than 4 hours. Arrive at 8, dead by noon. Or severely maimed, kind of lucky to survive, not.

We haven't started nuking yet.

The bankers need to stop China and Russia. Can't have that communism spreading.

Besides we are the banker's beaches. Less of us is more for them.

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What strikes me is 1--how crude the propaganda is, judging by that image, and 2--the note, very clearly sounded, about how Australia has to do this because Washington wants them to. It almost has the note of a ransom call, in which the kidnappee is trying to get something across while complying with the kidnapper's demand. Like, the media in Australia are not too happy about all this, but have been told they HAVE to cooperate with the propaganda effort, so they're slipping in a hint that they're doing this under duress, by making the call absurdly crude and by plainly stating that "the US made us do this." Like maybe they hope the Australian public will see through it? Or am I being overly optimistic?

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