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Not sure how a minor oil fields dispute ought to modify in any way my original belief that Australia plans to defend itself against the PRC.
by kspacewalk2 5y ago
Not sure how a minor oil fields dispute ought to modify in any way my original belief that Australia plans to defend itself against the PRC.
- robinsoh 5y agoIt appears to me that Australia is using its "defense" budget to fund offensive actions against weaker neighbors like Timor in order to steal billions of dollars worth of petro-resources. That's not a "minor" thing. Bugging a Prime Ministers Office in another country can't have been cheap. That's probably a couple of million dollars just on that operation.
- kspacewalk2 5y agoThe scale of this problem, and this offence, seems so vastly different from the potential catastrophe that the PRC would wreak on all these countries and their neighbours if they're allowed to operate unchallenged in the South Pacific that, again, it just seems like a footnote to the real story.