Bugger Ukraine, send Bushmasters to Solomons

What is wrong with everybody? Have we entirely lost the will or want to defend ourselves as a nation?

Here is our freedom-loving parliament yesterday:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned the Australian Parliament of the future global impacts if Russia is allowed to continue its invasion of his country.

Mr Zelensky issued the warning during an address in the Australian Parliament via video link on Thursday afternoon.

He warned that if Russia is not held to account, then other countries who have “similar aspirations” will follow suit, with Moscow’s aggression posing a “real threat” to Australia and the rest of the world.

Mr Zelensky requested Australian Bushmaters and “Psycho” Morrison delivered this:

Mr Morrison praised the “incredible courage” of Ukrainians, adding “We stand with you Mr President”.

“And we do not stand with the war criminal of Moscow,” the PM said.

“The people of Australia stand with Ukraine in your fight for survival … yes you have our prayers but you also have our weapons.”

Zelensky’s propaganda skills are not in question. But Ukraine is 13,000kms from Australia and entirely irrelevant to our strategic considerations.

Meanwhile, 1500kms from Australia, freedom is being sunk by Chinese gunboat diplomacy:

The Solomon Islands on Thursday said it had inked a wide-ranging security pact with Beijing, an agreement Western allies fear will pave the way for the first Chinese military foothold in the South Pacific.

“Officials of Solomon Islands and the People’s Republic of China have initialled elements of a bilateral Security Cooperation Framework between the two countries today,” said a statement from the prime minister’s office in Honiara.

It is now awaiting signature by foreign ministers of the two countries. A draft version of the agreement, leaked last week, detailed measures to allow Chinese security and naval deployments to the crisis-hit Pacific island nation.

It included a proposal that “China may, according to its own needs and with the consent of the Solomon Islands, make ship visits to, carry out logistical replenishment in, and have stopover and transition in Solomon Islands”.

It would also allow armed Chinese police to deploy at the Solomon Islands’ request, to maintain “social order”.

While Canberra pontificates, it is overlooking the small problem that, as NATO did to Russia, our sphere of influence is being violated by an antithetic great power that has openly declared its goal of ending our way of life:

Having failed to achieve these goals via a bald-faced trade war, China is now moving to secure them at the point of a canon.

Viva Ukraine!