We’re now so weak that when China sent three ships to sail around Australia to scare us, our navy couldn’t even shadow them
Other countries are readying for a potential world war, unlike Labor, which has recklessly crippled our military and mocks the Coalition for promising $21 billion more for our defence.
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Even Donald Trump on Saturday started to realise – after months of madness – what the Albanese Government is still ignoring in our fantasy election campaign.
He’d been played, Trump suggested in a post.
Russia – backed by China in a “no limits” alliance – really does believe in war.
And we’re in grave danger.
Other countries already know this, unlike Labor, which has recklessly crippled our military.
Russia’s European neighbours are preparing for a Russian attack, with Sweden even spending $15 million to upgrade nuclear shelters for 10 million people.
Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are withdrawing from a treaty banning antipersonnel landmines so they can sow them along their borders with Russia and its puppet Belarus.
Latvia has called for compulsory national service.
Poland wants military training for all men, plus female volunteers.
Germany is sending a brigade to Lithuania, the first time it’s stationing troops long-tern in a foreign country since World War 2.
They are readying for war – but the Albanese Government instead mocks the Coalition for promising $21 billion more for our defence in five years.
Worse, it’s meanwhile stripped our defence force of a squadron of F-35 aircraft, a regiment of self-propelled howitzers, two sea lift and replenishment ships, 321 infantry fighting vehicles, three frigates and six Offshore Patrol Vessels.
We’re now so weak that when China sent three ships to sail around Australia to scare us, our navy couldn’t even shadow them.
Both its supply vessels were being repaired, so New Zealand sent one of its last two frigates to help us.
Even then, it took a Virgin pilot to warn that the Chinese ships were firing weapons under our air traffic routes.
Our weakness is a disgrace, when we face a potential world war.
But Labor is peddling its she’ll-be-right fantasy, even refusing to confirm that Russia asked Indonesia to let it base military aircraft there, where it can help China in a war in our region.
At least, Trump now seems to see that he misread the danger.
True, he did realise China is now America’s greatest military threat, but vainly thought he could make America safer by persuading his “friend” Putin to switch his alliance from China to the US.
What nonsense.
Why would Putin trust the erratic Trump rather than his rock-fast Chinese ally, which shares his contempt for freedom and has backed his invasion of Ukraine, supplied his military with dual-use technology, and financed his war machine by buying Russian oil and gas?
Yet Trump kept pandering to Putin, last week even saying Putin could keep the Ukrainian territory he’d occupied in three years of war if he’d just stop fighting.
But Putin instead fired more missiles into Ukrainian cities, killing 12 civilians in Kyiv last Thursday, and Trump finally realised what was obvious all along – Putin doesn’t want peace but conquest.
“It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along,” Trump admitted in a post on Saturday.
Maybe Putin “has to be dealt with differently, through ‘Banking’ or ‘Secondary Sanctions?’”.
No kidding, genius.
Don’t assume Ukraine’s war is irrelevant to the rest of us.
Putin’s plan, as Trump also admitted in an earlier post last week, is to take all of Ukraine. He’d then control not just its minerals and industry, but its 900,000-strong army, bigger than the armies of Germany, France, Britain and Poland combined.
If he then decided to reconquer former Soviet-controlled countries such as Latvia, who’d stop him?
Think Trump would? Think Britain or France would use their own nuclear weapons to protect Europe’s eastern borders, if Russia might then fire nuclear missiles right back?
No, arming Ukraine to the teeth to stop Russia is critical, especially with China watching.
If Trump surrenders Ukraine, China would conclude the obvious.
Trump probably wouldn’t defend Taiwan, either, from the invasion China has threatened and practised.
This affects us, too.
If there’s war in our region, China will act against America’s allies.
It won’t need to invade us.
Its navy could simply cut off our sea routes to stop our critical imports of petrol, fertilisers, oil, pharmaceuticals, computers, phones and heavy machinery.
Our weak navy couldn’t stop it.
We’d be crippled in months, unless Trump saved us.
True, there may never be a war.
That hope is why Labor spends so little on our military.
But there’s a bloody war in Europe we didn’t expect, either, and never have we been this helpless.
Originally published as We’re now so weak that when China sent three ships to sail around Australia to scare us, our navy couldn’t even shadow them
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