Cut the apron strings

June 16, 2025

“Australia is a remarkably safe country.”

I disagree. Australia “ was” a remarkably safe country.

But since then, the US has infiltrated the ADF and associated entities;

We have signed up to handing over billions for subs we won’t get and couldn’t operate without the US if we did get them;

We have increasing numbers of US military bases and facilities on our soil;

We joined the US in patrols and military exercises by land and sea perilously close to China’s borders, air and sea limits; and

We have been painting a bigger and bigger target on ourselves for a war of US making, by design, even if possibly accidentally formally started.

Now more than ever, we must cut the US apron strings. We can become friends, instead of lapdogs. If that doesn’t suit the US, no loss, our mutual treaties only serve the US. We would be so much better off if we developed mature relationships with our near neighbours, including China.

We cannot remain tied to a country that is imploding, coming closer by the day to civil war where, whatever happens, the US will spend many decades repairing its self-inflicted wounds.

Dump Marles and act.