Soldiers added to skills shortage list

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One of the less-known outcomes of the immigration-led economy is that it destroys the nation’s armed forces.

It does this by ripping up the social contract between leadership and the polity on critical issues around living standards.

To put it bluntly, why would any young person wish to defend their country when the same has declared war on them?

It won’t educate them properly. It won’t pay them properly. And it won’t house them at all.

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What’s to defend?

A secondary problem is that the woke mind control needed to suppress the population amid immigration-crashed living standards produces millions of snowflakes, not soldiers.

The cult of victimhood wilts at harsh language, so combat looms a bridge too far.

Never fear, Boomers, Canberra has the answer to the solider shortage your bottomless greed created.

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More immigration!

Foreign citizens with permanent residency in Australia will soon be able to serve in Australia’s armed forces, as part of an effort to boost sluggish recruitment.

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is facing a shortage of about 4,400 workers.

Defence Minister Richard Marles said expanding applications to include eligible permanent residents was “essential” to meeting Australia’s security challenges in the years ahead.

From January next year, citizens from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada who meet the same criteria will be eligible, so long as they meet required security checks.

Earlier, Minister for Defence Personnel Matt Keogh laid out a different plan, saying recruitment would be opened to all countries from January.

That left his senior minister, Richard Marles, to clear up the confusion in parliament, suggesting expansion to other countries was a possibility in future — but not an immediate prospect.

I look forward to the moment that Australia goes to war with China or India only to discover the mass defections that result.

That is if we don’t get an army of fifth columnists turning their guns on fellow Aussie troops the moment the battle is joined.

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What kind of breathtaking arrogance does it take to assume that global humanity will die to protect Australia?

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.