The geostrategic pieces are all falling into place one after another to create the compelling impression that the US-led NATO proxy war on Russia through Ukraine has failed to achieve the grand strategic goals that were expected of it, which is why Washington is now willing to speed up the inevitable resumption of its “Pivot…
Think tanks across Australia, tanked with cash from US sources and keen to think in furious agreement, are all showing how delighted they are with the AUKUS security pact and what potential it has for local, if subordinated industry. The United States Studies Centre, a loudspeaker for Washington’s opinions based at the University of Sydney,…
This South Pacific island nation is practically on the opposite side of the world from that former Soviet Republic and wouldn’t ordinarily be expected to have any interest in training an Eastern European country’s military. The reason why it’s doing so, and on British territory at that, is likely because its leadership has an interest…
The US’ grand strategy pretty much amounts to preparing for what many fear might be the inevitable conventional phase of what some are already calling the ongoing Third World War that’s thus far only being waged through hybrid (economic, financial, information, proxy, etc.) means. Russia’s ongoing special military operation in Ukraine prompted the US to…
Visits to Honiara, part plea, part threat. Delegations equipped with a note of harassment. That was the initial Australian effort to convince the Solomon Islands that the decision to make a security pact with Beijing was simply not appropriate in the lotus land of Washington’s Pacific empire. Despite an election campaign warming up, Senator Zed…
Hyping up China’s soft security pact with the Solomon Islands preconditions the domestic public to expect an Australian-led AUKUS invasion of that country or any others in the South Pacific that consider similar such deals with the People’s Republic. Australia, which is a member of the anti-Chinese AUKUS military alliance alongside the UK and US,…
