nomadpete

Wille, what you are saying is that we must continue to get involved in the US conflicts as we have done in the past, in the hope that they MIGHT come to our aid in the highly unlikely event of us being invaded. The US has not historically behaved in the way that NATO (for instance) has a binding defense agreement to come to the aid of invaded members. Meanwhile we have repeatedly rushed to the aid of US involvrment in other wars. But none of those were cases of US being invaded. Do they owe us anything? I wouldn't count on it. I do not believe the US would do a great deal to help us if we really needed help. The US once said they would help Ukraine if Russia threatened it. Look how that turned out.

And we don't need to pretend to buy non existent submarines, for that.

Vassal? No, I think Australia has never shaken itself free from colonialism. Used to be a colony of the 'old country', now we are a colony of USA.

We are fortunate in our relativly isolated geographical location. However, we collectively accept law being used to suppress whistleblowers, and accept subservience to powers such as the USofA. We should be outraged but unfortunataly our collective apathy dilutes our ethics. My own apathy has diluted my own anger to the point that I couldn't be bothered writing a nastygram to a polly any more.

Just when I think the US can't get any worse, someone manages to show me another example of how networking works....

Birds of a feather?

Have they asked Gina or Clive?

There are 3 lows coming at us (in the south). Unusual, they are close together and bode for some active weather.

Hey Marty, I'm bringing by kayak for a bit of whitewater fun!

That's just your algorithm working for you.

That's not the fault of the constitution. Every system can be hijacked if a leader plants compliant assistants who only answer to their benefactor, and ignore ethically obeying the rules. In the US case, removing trump from the equation fixes nothing. I only permits the unethical rabble to run amok.

PS, contrary to the current voices in Washington, the United States was NOT founded as a christian nation.

Rather than rewriting the constitution, if they just follow it...... Founding fathers tried to separate state from all religion. The US really began it's slide when the christian lobby got control - about the same time their (&our) government implemented prayer sessions into government processes. The only thing needed to reclaim some semblance of respect is to get the whole lot to obey the rule of law, ditch religious fundamentalism, and drop the Electoral College.

Now you might understand why Terrump is urgently needing a billion dollar bunker.