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From: Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Where's Donald ?
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:02:33 -0500
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On 2/27/2025 12:23 PM, JAB wrote:
> 'The Americans are doing nothing': US abandons Australia over Chinese
> warship 'catastrophe'
> 
> Australia was dealt a truly horrifying blow this week - and America's
> response has told us everything we really need to know.
> ...
> ...
> Of the three Chinese ships, the most worrisome is the Renhai-class
> Cruiser Zunyi, which can be equipped with nuclear-capable land-attack
> cruise missiles.
> 
>  From where the little "flotilla" was sitting a few days ago off
> Southern NSW, it could have hypothetically destroyed Canberra and
> Sydney in under an hour. Brisbane too in a little longer.
> ...
> ...
> Gunboat diplomacy
> 
> One does not need to be so dramatic to be concerned. The main point
> being made by Beijing is as much political as it is military.
> 
> That point is easy enough to read: do what we say or you will be
> destroyed. The manner of the message is also clear. Get out of the
> Taiwan Strait or we'll occupy the Tasman Strait.
> 
> This is an age-old tactic of warfare known as "gunboat diplomacy".
> When you can sail missiles unmolested to within minutes of a competing
> nation's capital, there is not much need to fire them.
> ...
> ...
> A better idea is to get in ahead and sell ourselves to America today,
> before the price is discounted against Greenland in a moment of
> national crisis.
> 
> God bless the 51st state.
> 
> https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/the-americans-are-doing-nothing-us-abandons-australia-over-chinese-warship-catastrophe/news-story/3d199d2b24e817240520c9c13d5bda3c
> 

I guess this means the ANZUS treaty has gone by the wayside. Didn't even 
make headlines.



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Dr. Auric D. Hellman
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