Albo’s anti-American rabble is mounting is pretending to care about ANZUS. The Australian.
As Richard Marles engaged in high-level speed dating with Donald Trump’s top officials in the White House, Anthony Albanese was rolling out the red carpet in Canberra for an influential US Republican congressman.
After a seven-month pursuit, Albanese is within striking distance of his first in-person meeting with the US President.
Confusion over Marles’ stop in Washington DC and speculation of a snubbing by US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth overshadowed the real reason behind the Defence Minister’s flying visit to the US capital.
Marles, who helped Kevin Rudd finally step foot in the West Wing, was laying the groundwork for Albanese and discussing potential flashpoints and points of agreement between his government and the Trump administration on defence spending, critical minerals and AUKUS.
The calibre of the meetings reflected the strategic significance of the visit, with Marles chatting with US Vice-President JD Vance, Trump’s powerful deputy chief-of-staff Stephen Miller, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Hegseth.
So, our deputy PM now has to fly to Washington to overcome the shortcomings of the Sinophilic Kevin Rudd.
This is either deliberate alliance sabotage or gross mismanagement.
Given how long the list of Albo’s anti-American failings had become, it is easy to conclude it is the former:
- embrace of the 14 conditions to end democracy,
- grovelling in Beijing,
- rhetoric shifts from the US without defence spending to back it up,
- attacks on social media and free speech;
- the pivot to Palestine.
Albo has let ANZUS drift dangerously into crisis. His gaslighting is now risking the breach I have been warning of.
The original post-election strategy, endorsed by Rudd, was for Albanese to hold at least one casual meeting with Trump, allow time for the pair to bond and work through any differences behind closed doors before a White House appointment. The thinking was if Trump was comfortable with Albanese, an Oval Office meeting would carry less risk.
It has now got to a point where Albanese must meet Trump sooner rather than later, even if that means a first pressure-cooker meeting at the White House.
I have zero faith in anti-American Albo not to stuff this up. Indeed, I fear he plans to do just that and then blame Trump for it, with Australia’s fake left idiots cheering it on.
Listen to another Albo coward today, Gareth Evans.
Geopolitically, Australia’s concerns include China’s territorial ambition in, and militarisation of, the South China Sea, its repeatedly stated determination to unify Taiwan with the mainland not just by persuasion but force if necessary and its dramatically increasing military capability, including nuclear arsenal. Politically, they extend to China’s intolerance of any form of real or perceived dissent, including in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, with some of its activity extending to the attempted suppression of dissenting voices in the diaspora community in Australia.
And economically, as hugely fruitful as our relationship has been, Australia — like many other countries — still has concerns about the extent in practice of China’s commitment to a completely free and open rules-based trading system.
Concerns include the use of trade coercion for political purposes, the use of state subsidies and other support mechanisms in key industry sectors, insufficient respect for intellectual property and unjustified discrimination against foreign competitors. China was the subject of nearly half of all WTO trade complaints in 2024.
But it is important to keep all these differences in perspective. The line that is constantly repeated by Albanese and Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong, that we should ‘cooperate where we can, disagree where we must, and manage our differences wisely’, is not the empty cliche that some want to paint it, but a mature description of the course Australia should take.
Geopolitically, Australia must not succumb to ‘China threat’ hysteria. There is no reason to assume that, Taiwan apart, China would ever contemplate outright Putin-style military aggression against any of its regional neighbours. For Australia, physical invasion has always been wildly implausible logistically, and will remain so.
This is dangerous tripe. The danger to Australia is not military invasion and never has been. It’s not a war over Taiwan, either.
The danger is hegemonic, of being occupied without a shot being fired.
Beijing knows this.
Mass immigration and strategic drift will hand Australia to China on a platter over time.
It is already obvious that federal parties can no longer criticise the CCP for fear of losing Chinese-occupied seats while the CCP takes daily shits on our sovereignty for fun.
What do we think the recent nuclear-capable missile drills off Canberra were for? This was gunboat diplomacy 101.
Now, Albo is using woke weirdoes as his outriders to suppress debate over China and anything else he likes.
When it reaches the tipping point, liberal democracy will be substituted with a Labor autocracy that sends anybody who disagrees with it to Pilbara re-education camps.
That is the danger.
