The Obama Administration didn’t get the permanent military presence it sought in Iraq, but they are reportedly on the brink of announcing a new permanent deployment in a rather surprising place – Australia.
Opposition figures within the Australia government say that the announcement will be made next week during President Obama’s visit to Australia, and that the US will begin deploying Marines to the nation’s Darwin military base.
The “why” of the sudden (but permanent) deployment is unclear, but some media outlets cited unnamed officials saying it had something to do with “heightened concern about China.”
Which is of course the default reason for any and all US military actions in the South Pacific, but makes even less since in this case, since there is no conceivable reason to expect that Australia is about to be overrun by Red Chinese, or that if this were somehow the case the deployment of US Marines would make the US seem more committed to that incredibly improbable war.
I hope the Aussies are smart enough to grossly overcharge them for rent and everything else. I mean, if you're going to sell your country's soveriegnty you might as well get something for it.
We are just lap dogs to our iimperial masters. Blair was the poddle,what should Gillard be; the ranger spaniel, maybe. So bloody stupid!
Debbie how does the Australian public feel about this? Was this story widely reported down there?
"…….overrun by Red Chinese…….." Hell, there is no reason that they will be overrun by the Chinese army. Like Canada, Australia is being overrun by the Chinese civilians and will be a Chinese country within 50 years. God bless our treasonous self-serving politicians.
In a nutshell: that's exactly how it started in Palestine during the first half of the 20th century when east Eurpean 'Jews' (?) migrated to Palestine, set up the kibutzes, smuggled weapons into the country and eventually with assistance (of $3 bilion anually) from most western capitalist countries took over Palestine and gave it a different name, with disastrous consequences still unfolding……..
This is bad news for Australia, even if they don't realize it.
Ha ha ha! The Aussies are phucked! Pretty soon, their Sheilas will start being raped around the military basis, their water will turn to sh*t, they'll lose their month holiday and healthcare and will become just another colony. But, seriously, whatever happens to them is their fault. If anyone is in a position to fend off the Empire and call the shots that would be Australia.
too bad Australia has not gone the route of New Zealand since the mid-1980s and told my beloved USA to "stuff it" when it suits their national interest … Australia has a much bigger economy than New Zealand and mineral wealth and stronger ties to global finance and that is why the US military is getting a permanent presence in the far north – that and the fact that the US presence is going to be drawn-down in Japan and Korea … the defense contractors that make a mint off of US taxpayers through their political connections need to keep hyping some kind of threat somewhere to justify these expenses – sorry, Australia, my country is run by the parasite zionists in service to the rogue state israel and we Americans rarely actually get any say over what we want
JLS, this the first i heard about it. Will have to check out some sites, but my prefered aussie blog has nothing.
Of course there is a threat from China, which the author of this story doesn't understand… its all about resources. This is just another escalation in the soon to be named Resource Wars, of which Iraq was an early example, and th Gulf War an earlier still example. This will go on until we learn to undermine the fossil fool industry, and convert to renewables or even better, learn to power down. Until then – more of the same. We in Australia will soon find ourselves in a war zone over our resources – mostly coal seam gas – which will destroy our lives eihter through the drilling process, or the wars going on over it. We are all doomed – start planning your lifeboat.