"Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating for some reason is being allowed to tell the truth about the alleged 'threat' posed by China to the United States and other western nations. China represents no military challenge to the U.S., Keating says, but is a legitimate rising economic power, and that's why the U.S. feels the need to assert greater military control over the entire Pacific Rim. Jimmy and Americans' Comedian Kurt Metzger wonder why Keating is allowed to openly express such heterodox views."
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GJzEOkyOkM
One Australian in comments section, named "Pine Gap Island Territory" writes:
"...As an Australian, I am furious with my Labor Government which is in lock step with the previous conservative government. We have signed on to spend $US250 BILLION for 8 nuclear powered (although not nuclear weaponed) subs. For the record, we are smaller than Texas in terms of both our population and economy. We won't be able to afford it, and the Government of the day will inevitably do major cuts to welfare.
Also, our Navy is not a Bluewater Navy, but with this it is an attempt to get involved in war with China in the South China Sea and East China Sea.
Put simply, we have no business being there. We do have conventional submarines that are much more designed for our defence needs. A nuclear submarine is more designed for offensive purposes across large oceans.
We are getting them for the purpose of potentially going to war with China: to be America's next Ukraine in the Pacific.
China has no territorial ambitions to conquer Australia and as we are a faraway country surrounded by 2 oceans, we are not dependent on the shipping lanes of the South China Sea. (Europe is, but many European nations are a lot richer than us: they can get their own subs).
I don't care about the Spratly Islands, the Paracel Islands or Scarborough Shoal.
Our future is within Asia: East Asia (China, Japan, Korea); South Asia (mainly India), and; Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, etc).
With these subs, we then have the option for war: I DON'T WANT THE OPTION FOR WAR
We have long ago surrendered our sovereignty to America. Paul Keating is a legend for speaking out: he has a very sharp wit..."
