The fact that the US thumbs Australia's suggestion to free Assange reflects that it does not find Australia (not sure if US warship are still in Freemantle,Perth) a much valued partner anymore. This as they move their defense to the north near Spratly Island and Taiwan.
Australia now have no choice but to adopt a foreign policy based on the principal of neutrality and maintaining peaceful relations with all countries, regardless of their ideology or political system and perhaps to further develop relations with other countries in the region.
After all, it is much more beneficial economically for Australia to be friends with China (as it export 10 times more goods n services there) than to the US.
Yes, the time is now for Australia to fulfil its own potential.
There is no plausible or logial way by which Australia can worm itself out of the defence contracts and defence agreements it has with the US or UK without either or both the US and UK staging a coup or change of government in Australia.
It is as simple as that because we address simple minds. Australia has no political will of its own. It has no independent foreign policy and Julian Assange is not a wizz kid hacker.
Assange relied on the work and skills of others to achieve what he did and that is simply noteriety and fame for himself.
Mark Davis the SBS reporter did a comprehemsive documentary on Assange and ended up himself expressing doubts about Assange's credibility. Assange in a perfect world may have been an asset to us all. But in truth he is really a pimp.
So you are suggesting that Australia should now side with the aggressor in the region, namely China, a totalitarian state that bullies its way through any opposition?
".. a totalitarian state that bullies its way through any opposition"
You mean China bombed Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia... and before that Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, back to the Stone Age.. And recently gave cluster bombs to Ukraine?
The US and its allies did indeed commit those regrettable atrocities but it is no justification for Australia to reconsider its allegiances, and move towards an even more authoritarian regime. I would guess that the majority of migrants from those areas to Australia would support the status quo.
I listen to viewpoints from several political, economic and strategic directions, the racist perspective doesn't have any relevance to me. We're all just humans trying to get by or get ahead according to and in spite of our own biases.
You haven't seen enough "several blah" then, I tend to find your kind of viewpoints emanating from the Western white world, nothing "racist" about how I see that, I call a spade a spade
If that is tthe case as you expresss it heere, then what he is doing is no differentt to that any other big bully including what Australia's own allies do and continue to do to smaller states and anyone thaat opposes or is in competition with it. Grow up. Get a life or do some research..
That is true, but there is no reason for Australia to switch alliances from the US to China, Russia or whoever, they are all corrupt in their own ways, and Julian Assange would certainly have 'disappeared' if he had embarrassed the Chinese or Russian governments in the same way.
Julian Assange would have disappeared even without China. The US is responsible for more disappearances of people they do not like than any other country in the world. It is false dichotomy to think that because one disagrees with the US that they therefore condone what China does. China has made more of a positive contribution to humanity since 1978 than any country in the US orbit has. Assange did not benefit China by what he did. He enlightened us as to what deception, destruction and death the US has engaged in to our detriment.
Right. Assange did a good job, but he didn't work alone, why is he being singled out for persecution? There is something else we don't know. Murray Hunter said that Australia should reconsider its position (alliances) so I'm just reading between the lines. The world is in a mess, why is there a war in Ukraine, who benefits? (Weapons manufacturers at the very least.) Also, China made more of a positive contribution to humanity? The millions of Chinese that died through Mao's policies, and the Tiananmen Square massacre didn't happen either. The Taiwanese are so looking forward to re-joining the mainland that they are fortifying themselves in preparation for the party!
Really Tian An Mein Massacre? Perhaps you ought to read a lot more about what Mao did as by Western interpretation. Churchill did worse. More than 6 million in India in the Bengal famine alone. The consequential deaths were more than triple that number. Even Indians were not aware of what went on in parts of their country because it was an offence to say anything about it. Churchill 's and his predecessors murderous rampages in Mesapotamia, India and in Africa. Lets stick to Assange. Thank you for the opportunity to respond.
Let's be easy on Winston, he suffered mentally from inherited sexually transmitted disease and debilitating maniacal depression. But while he struggled with how to tackle Herr Hitler, he did smoke good Cuban cigars and drank great Armenian brandy. The invention of the concentration camp was attributed to old fascist. The use of the world's earliest aerial bombings (eg. on the Kurds) was his idea.
I own the set of his "A History of the English-Speaking People", what a pile of Ketuanan Englander tosh...
Shame on Australia taking it till now to make some feeble noise about the plight of its own damn native Assange.
Ne'er a shameless bunch of worse running dingos serving a foreign master than the successive Oz governments of comic Damn Ednas!
The fact that the US thumbs Australia's suggestion to free Assange reflects that it does not find Australia (not sure if US warship are still in Freemantle,Perth) a much valued partner anymore. This as they move their defense to the north near Spratly Island and Taiwan.
Australia now have no choice but to adopt a foreign policy based on the principal of neutrality and maintaining peaceful relations with all countries, regardless of their ideology or political system and perhaps to further develop relations with other countries in the region.
After all, it is much more beneficial economically for Australia to be friends with China (as it export 10 times more goods n services there) than to the US.
Yes, the time is now for Australia to fulfil its own potential.
There is no plausible or logial way by which Australia can worm itself out of the defence contracts and defence agreements it has with the US or UK without either or both the US and UK staging a coup or change of government in Australia.
It is as simple as that because we address simple minds. Australia has no political will of its own. It has no independent foreign policy and Julian Assange is not a wizz kid hacker.
Assange relied on the work and skills of others to achieve what he did and that is simply noteriety and fame for himself.
Mark Davis the SBS reporter did a comprehemsive documentary on Assange and ended up himself expressing doubts about Assange's credibility. Assange in a perfect world may have been an asset to us all. But in truth he is really a pimp.
Doesn't mean the poor blighter deserves to rot in jail.
True
Lol!
A rational and timely assessment.
So you are suggesting that Australia should now side with the aggressor in the region, namely China, a totalitarian state that bullies its way through any opposition?
".. a totalitarian state that bullies its way through any opposition"
You mean China bombed Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia... and before that Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, back to the Stone Age.. And recently gave cluster bombs to Ukraine?
The US and its allies did indeed commit those regrettable atrocities but it is no justification for Australia to reconsider its allegiances, and move towards an even more authoritarian regime. I would guess that the majority of migrants from those areas to Australia would support the status quo.
"even more authoritarian regime"
Sunshine, do you only listen to the white world?
I listen to viewpoints from several political, economic and strategic directions, the racist perspective doesn't have any relevance to me. We're all just humans trying to get by or get ahead according to and in spite of our own biases.
You haven't seen enough "several blah" then, I tend to find your kind of viewpoints emanating from the Western white world, nothing "racist" about how I see that, I call a spade a spade
If that is tthe case as you expresss it heere, then what he is doing is no differentt to that any other big bully including what Australia's own allies do and continue to do to smaller states and anyone thaat opposes or is in competition with it. Grow up. Get a life or do some research..
Lolol
That is true, but there is no reason for Australia to switch alliances from the US to China, Russia or whoever, they are all corrupt in their own ways, and Julian Assange would certainly have 'disappeared' if he had embarrassed the Chinese or Russian governments in the same way.
Julian Assange would have disappeared even without China. The US is responsible for more disappearances of people they do not like than any other country in the world. It is false dichotomy to think that because one disagrees with the US that they therefore condone what China does. China has made more of a positive contribution to humanity since 1978 than any country in the US orbit has. Assange did not benefit China by what he did. He enlightened us as to what deception, destruction and death the US has engaged in to our detriment.
True
Right. Assange did a good job, but he didn't work alone, why is he being singled out for persecution? There is something else we don't know. Murray Hunter said that Australia should reconsider its position (alliances) so I'm just reading between the lines. The world is in a mess, why is there a war in Ukraine, who benefits? (Weapons manufacturers at the very least.) Also, China made more of a positive contribution to humanity? The millions of Chinese that died through Mao's policies, and the Tiananmen Square massacre didn't happen either. The Taiwanese are so looking forward to re-joining the mainland that they are fortifying themselves in preparation for the party!
Really Tian An Mein Massacre? Perhaps you ought to read a lot more about what Mao did as by Western interpretation. Churchill did worse. More than 6 million in India in the Bengal famine alone. The consequential deaths were more than triple that number. Even Indians were not aware of what went on in parts of their country because it was an offence to say anything about it. Churchill 's and his predecessors murderous rampages in Mesapotamia, India and in Africa. Lets stick to Assange. Thank you for the opportunity to respond.
Let's be easy on Winston, he suffered mentally from inherited sexually transmitted disease and debilitating maniacal depression. But while he struggled with how to tackle Herr Hitler, he did smoke good Cuban cigars and drank great Armenian brandy. The invention of the concentration camp was attributed to old fascist. The use of the world's earliest aerial bombings (eg. on the Kurds) was his idea.
I own the set of his "A History of the English-Speaking People", what a pile of Ketuanan Englander tosh...
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