FARMS and Usans

July 18, 2025

The issues of Australia’s over-reliance on the United States of America are, thanks to this article and similar mentions, becoming more mainstream.

There are two terms which may assist these changing Australia’s perceptions on this issue. The terms are FARMS (Foreign Aid Replacing Military Spending) and Usan (citizens of the United States of America).

FARMS provides a quick way of identifying an area where military spending (commonly misnamed as “defence”) should be redirected. In this way, the “foreign aid — where does it come from” question is answered — and it identifies the greatest evil in the world today. The greed of capitalists could be focused on aid rather than weapons.

Usan is the obvious country identifier of those from the US in the same way that people from Cuba are Cubans, people from Colombia are Colombians, etc. The advantages of insisting on a country-identifier is to separate it from the other 34 countries and many territories in America. This is especially important in highlighting where the (often evil) actions/behaviours of the Usans (presidents, billionaires, ICE agents and many others) originate and separate them from the generally better behaviours of the millions other Americans.