Imperilling ourselves in Service to the US

July 23, 2025

Every war-game the US has undertaken regarding their desire to invade China has resulted in US defeat. Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio have both acknowledged that on several occasions. Making these never-never Subs subject to US control whenever they might just arrive won’t affect that outcome in any way at all. The obvious observation that never appears to occur to our strategically illiterate politicians, is that we are talking about the invasion of the second largest population on the planet. Their technological competence vastly outmatches the US, Japan and Australia combined and would be defending their homeland. Whilst we would be trying to project military power thousands of kilometres from our shores against an “enemy” with an industrial capacity to produce hypersonic weapons in their tens of thousands. The ONLY way we might conceive of winning such a conflict would be if the nuclear weapons of our unreliable ally were to triumph over those of China, in which case if any of us survived we would inherit an irradiated planet incapable of sustaining life. For Christ’s sake can we shake off this US death wish and get back to some recognisable sanity?